Homemade essential oil perfume

homemade perfume

Made with Love

We understand that ‘we are what we eat (or more correctly, what we absorb as our uptake of nutrients isn’t always optimal). Whatever we put on our skin gets absorbed directly into the blood stream and onto the liver to be processed and cleansed along with all the other toxins it already has to deal with.

The skin is our largest organ and most of us put a lot of stuff on it with our various beautifying lotions and potions…so why would you put something on your skin that you wouldn’t put in your mouth? By putting chemicals on our skin we give our liver more work to do. How can we then expect to have clearer, softer skin from it?! On the surface you might do, but try switching to natural products and you’ll see how you glow from the inside out! Being the ‘posh hippy’ that I am, I sometimes make my own concoctions and decided to try making my own perfume (rather than continuing to have none at all).

Essential oils each have their own unique therapeutic qualities – so you acquire healing benefits and smell gorgeous at the same time!

What you need is

  • Essential oils of your choice (http://www.essential-oil-goddess.com/blending-essential-oils.html for a list of top,middle,bottom notes so you know how much of each to blend. Some are stronger than others so will be overpowering or have a longer lasting effect).
  • A little perfume bottle
  • Carrier oil such as almond or jojoba oil – some perfume test strips (in the UK you can get this stuff at Neil’s Yard, in Denmark at Urtegaarden – the rest of you, I don’t know! You might be able to nab some test strips from a perfume shop?!)
  • A pipette if you find one, I was just very careful counting the drops from the essential oil bottles
  • A little vial if you want to do a test run first (I’m far too impatient and as I was only making a small amount, I just went for it)

What you do is

  • Find out which oils you want to use. I used Lavender as top note, Ylang Ylang as my middle note and Jasmin as my base note.
  • You add the amount of drops of each oil onto a test strip (so I did 3 drops Lavender on one strip, 2 drops Ylang Ylang on another, 1 drop Jasmin on the third)
  • Let these sit for about a week, occasionally ‘whofting’ them in front of your nose (all together) to see if you like the smell. The smell will change over the week, so you do need it to rest for that amount of time. If you don’t like the scent, start again with a new mix, or try adding a bit more of one or the other oil.
  • If you like it, time to mix it up! For a perfume, you need about 15% essential oils to carrier oil. In my little bottle I put 2×3 drops Lavender, 2×2 drops Ylang Ylang, 2×1 drop Jasmin then filled the rest with almond oil (you can also also use the measurement 2 tablespoons carrier oil to 12-20 drops essential oil, but I haven’t tried it that way myself so can’t comment).
  • Then leave your marvelous creation in a cool, dark place to rest for 24 hrs – a week. I left mine for about a week so that I got the same scent as on the test strips (at first I didn’t like it but then the scent settled and ended up being the same as on the strips)

Voila my sweet smelling dames – go out and knock those olfactory senses off your co-workers, friends, family, neighbourhood…!


Caroline Cain

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