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Autumn Stroll Wax Melt & Candle Recipe⁠
Are you looking for a unique autumn aroma to scent your home with this year? This recipe brings a unique twist to home fragrance with unconventional notes of mushroom and smoke.⁠ ⁠ When trying to come up with a natural home fragrance recipe for fall, we decided to move away from classic pumpkin spice and into the forest to replicate the essence of an autumn hike. We realized it was going to take some unconventional ingredients to get there. #naturalfragrance #homefragrance #waxmelts #fallvibes
Essential Oil Blends for Naptime
Taking naps can be great for your health, but many of us find it hard to turn off the mental chatter. Try these 3 essential oil blends to help settle a stressed mind and help you drift off to a rejuvenating mid-day rest. #essentialoilblends #sleepsupport #naptime
Four Essential Oil Blends for Road Trips⁠
With summer here, many of us are gearing up for adventurous journeys to familiar or undiscovered destinations. But sometimes the winding forested roads and picturesque hills can bring about discomforts. Everything from stuffy air, motion sickness, fatigue, and backseat bickering are all too familiar nuisances when traveling in a car for a prolonged time. ⁠ To combat these discomforts, we call upon four essential oil blends to support motion sickness, mental alertness, awakeness, and calm nerves.
Understanding Top Notes for Essential Oil Blending
Uncover the importance of top-note #essentialoils . These stimulating yet volatile oils are fresh and bright but last only a short time. They are what we smell first in an #aromatherapyblend and perfumers utilize them to highlight and balance the middle and base notes for a longer-lasting, evolving #fragrance . ⁠ In this article, we share a list of our favorite top-note oils for blending, along with how to work with them in #perfume blending, DIY #aromatherapy mists, #diffuserblends, and more!
Understanding Middle Note Essential oil for Aroma Blending
The second part of our Understanding Aroma Notes series is ready to read! ⁠ Middle notes make up the body of DIY essential oil blends. Many aromatherapists consider mid-notes to be the most influential on the mind and body. After all, 75% of the emotions we experience are attributed to our sense of smell. Not sure which oils to choose? We’ve included a comprehensive list of middle note oils to help you make your own perfume and aromatherapy blends.⁠
Beeswax-Free Wax Melts & Spirit-Lifting Essential Oil Blend
A while back, we began sharing wax melt recipes made with beeswax and our community loved them. Since then, we’ve had a lot of requests for a vegan wax melt alternative, and we're excited to share that we have dialed in ⁠ great recipe. ⁠ ⁠ This version is made with carnauba wax, a vegetable wax that comes from the leaves of a Brazilian palm tree (Copernica cerifera). This recipe also comes with a spirit-lifting essential oil blend recipe for stress support.
Understanding Base Note Essential oils for Aroma Blending
Blending essential oils is like painting a canvas. Each brush stroke builds on the layers of paint beneath to create a harmonious finished image. Similarly, essential oil blending requires building base, middle, and top-note fragrances. ⁠ As the foundation of these layers, base note oils (also called fixative notes or dry-out notes), are the scents that linger the longest in a blend. Base notes are key to creating balanced and lasting fragrances. Here are our favorite base note essential oils.
Fire Element Perfume Blend with Essential Oils
Fire Zodiac Perfume Recipe⁠ ⁠ We are happy to share the final blend in our elemental perfume series! This Fire Zodiac blend is crafted with radiant bergamot, spicy clove bud, and transformative palo santo essential oils to celebrate the warmth, strength, and creativity of our favorite fire signs. ⁠ You can make this blend with our DIY "Earth Goddess", "Mystical Mermaid", and "Head In the Clouds" perfume recipes for a complete set!
Herbal Simmer Pot Recipes
Have you ever made an old-school simmer pot? ⁠ Learn how to scent your home with herbs and spices with these stovetop potpourri recipes. Not only are they a natural way to diffuse your home with feel-good aromas, but they are also quick and easy to make, and offer a great preparation to use up aging ingredients. ⁠ We’ve got two delightful simmer pot recipes to get you started, one that celebrates fall and one to encourage energy and focus. ⁠
Wind Element Perfume Bend
Essential Oil Perfume Blend: Head in the Clouds We’ve all been waiting for part three of the Elemental Perfume Blend series. We think you’re going to love this "Head in the Clouds" perfume blend. It is wind-themed and light as air (obviously perfect for all our air-sign friends!). Featuring ravensara, coriander, and grapefruit essential oils, this perfume blend has “go with the flow” vibes.
Essential Oil Perfume Recipe: The Mermaid Blend
This mystical perfume blend harnesses the allure of mermaids and the calming essence of water. Made with carefully selected essential oils, this water-element perfume is great for everyday use and makes an exceptional gift! It calls upon soothing, tranquil clary sage, refreshing and uplifting bay laurel, and the softening touch of sensuous ylang ylang so you can immerse yourself in the beauty of the ocean and its surroundings, even if you’re far from the coast.
Earth Goddess Perfume Blend with Essential Oils
Earthy Perfume Blend Recipe: Our newly engaged marketing manager has wedding party favors on her mind and has been sharing her journey in finding the right party favors for the big day. Her goals are that they should be homemade, organic, and in sustainable packaging. (No small feat!) Easy to make, this resinous essential oil roll-on perfume harnesses the grounding energy of Earth, offers a longer-lasting scent, and will offer a practical and unique party favor to share.
5 Natural Cleaning Recipes with Lemon Essential oil
How to Use Lemon Essential Oil for Cleaning: We love lemon essential oil for its bright citrus aroma and uplifting constituents, but did you know that it's also an incredible cleaning ingredient? It’s the 76% (=)-Lionene in lemon oil that makes it so good at polishing furniture and cutting grease and sticky residues. We’re revisiting five of our favorite lemon oil-based cleaning recipes that are natural, easy to make, and leave our homes smelling citrus fresh!
4 Easy Aroma Blends For Spring
It's finally time to make some spring-time aroma oils, diffuser blends, and aroma sprays! From sweet, playful blends intended to wake up the senses, to luxurious florals, these aroma oils are the perfect way to leave the winter doldrums behind. And, because they are measured in parts, you can make a small test batch or scale up the recipes for friends and family. ⁠ Happy Spring!
Sultry Perfume Recipe With Essential Oils
If you’ve had the opportunity to work with tonka beans, you know they have a heavenly aroma: a blend of vanilla-like essence with undertones of tobacco, pistachio, and musk. In other words, they are perfect for perfumery! The dilemma is how to get that delicious scent into a perfume. It turns out, a simple alcohol extraction is the key! Then add pure organic vetiver essential oil and a touch of sandalwood to this aromatic base, and you have a luscious, warm, sultry homemade perfume.