| o Create Your Own Pure Essential Oil Blend - Part | | | | Essential Oils are potent in their pure form - it's the |
| One | | | | lingering essence that you are after. |
| When we consider the additional benefits of using | | | | Sniffing essential oils straight from the bottle can |
| pure essential oils to create our own scented blend | | | | damage your sense of smell and/or give you a |
| for skincare, emotional and physical well being, it | | | | headache. But it won't give you a true sense of the |
| becomes a unique and hard to resist opportunity. | | | | particular essential oils scent, many are much |
| In using gentle essential oils, even when your primary | | | | different and sometimes more pleasant when diluted. |
| goal is to create a beautiful scent, you are bound to | | | | Become familiar with your oils. It will be easier to |
| reap the healing and stress reducing benefits of the | | | | know just the right one to use when you are looking |
| essential oil blend as well. | | | | for something to complete your new essential oil |
| Scent can be an extremely powerful mood enhancer, | | | | blend and will give you a good variety to choose |
| often used to calm and relax or to uplift and | | | | from when you are in the planning stages of creating |
| invigorate, there are even some that do both. | | | | your blend. |
| As stress is one of the major contributors to disease | | | | It is said that scent will help you to retain memory as |
| in our society today, the art of creating scent | | | | that particular scent will be "linked" to the memory, |
| through essential oil blends in our environment... | | | | so upon smelling it, you will remember what you |
| aromatherapy... is a gentle and enjoyable wellness | | | | where thinking at that time. We've all experienced |
| tool. | | | | this in one form or another as a familiar scent takes |
| If you are looking at skin care benefits only, you | | | | us back to a certain place and time. |
| should decide what exactly you want and research | | | | I believe that we also retain the memory of each |
| the best oils to use, then choose from them, being | | | | essential oil's nuance so that when we are playing |
| careful to follow dilution rates and safety guidelines. | | | | with ideas, a blend of sorts will come together almost |
| As a matter of fact, creating a blend according to it's | | | | automatically if you have decided what end result |
| beneficial properties is a whole other topic! | | | | you are looking for. |
| If you are going for scent, both of these still apply, | | | | Much like when we remember things like phone |
| but you are free to follow your nose. | | | | numbers and passwords directly through our fingers, |
| Blending is something that doesn't necessarily take | | | | on autopilot... but if we are asked to remember what |
| experience to begin, but must be experienced to | | | | they are, we can't (been there, done that with my |
| accomplish, if that makes any scents :0) | | | | van security passcode, bad scene jellybean!) |
| You can learn methods and get ideas from a book, | | | | So it is important to get to know your scents by |
| but you must do it to do it. | | | | enjoying them individually first. Then you will have a |
| Do It Your Self is always more rewarding, and it is | | | | much better idea how to create your own essential |
| fun and freeing to use our own creativity when | | | | oil blend from the oils that have become familiar. |
| developing unique scents for our personal care needs. | | | | If you are on a budget, or would like to start by |
| Using pure essential oils to make your own scented | | | | focusing on one area of scent, research oils in that |
| blends doesn't just make good scents, it makes good | | | | category and purchase a small sampling of these oils |
| sense too! | | | | to play with. |
| GET TO KNOW YOUR ESSENTIAL OILS | | | | You will need to decide what you'd like to start with. |
| INDIVIDUALLY AND ON A FIRST NAME BASIS! | | | | If for example you would like to make a light floral |
| Many pure essential oils are beautiful as they are. | | | | using oils such as rose, lavender or chamomile, or a |
| Take a sniff. Let the essence filter through the air | | | | heady intoxicating blend with oils such as jasmine, |
| and into your nostrils. It lingers and becomes you. Try | | | | sandalwood or oak moss, or an invigorating citrus |
| it! | | | | blend using oils such as grapefruit, orange, lemon or |
| TIP: Never sniff a pure essential oil straight from the | | | | lime. |
| bottle, hold it away from you or put a drop onto a | | | | That's just for starters, the possibilities are endless. |
| piece of paper or a q-tip, or put it in a bit of carrier | | | | That's the fun of making scents! |
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