Aromatherapy Essential Oil Recipes
Online guide to aromatherapy essential oil recipes
Making your own shower gel is as easy as adding your favorite essential oils to a good quality shower gel base. This recipe recommended a blend of uplifting essential oils making it a suitable recipe for your morning shower but you can easily substitute other aromatherapy oils making it your own.
Click here to go to the recipe – Easy Shower Gel
This Natural Laundry Soap recipe is kind on your clothes as well as being much kinder on the environment than many of the chemical laundry products found in many laundry cupboards.
As well as being biodegradable, this natural laundry soap is easy to make and inexpensive – not to mention it smells fabulous!
Click here to go to the recipe – Natural Laundry Soap
Winter-time seems to have hit Australia earlier this year with some very cold days and even colder nights. Along with winter comes colds, flue, sore throats and coughs.
Rather than heading to the supermarket or pharmacy for over-the-counter or prescription medications that tend to only mask and suppress the illness why not try some natural relief from essential oils?
Using a more natural approach as a remedy is not only better for your long term health but will boost your immune system. Next time a virus strikes, your body will be stronger and better able to deal with the various types of bugs going around.
While you can buy herbal and essential oil remedies from many supermarkets and health food stores it’s also pretty simple to make your own natural homemade remedies.
Here are a few suggestions below, an herbal winter tea, a soothing chest rub and an inhalation. Using all of these in combination is a good idea along with plenty of rest and basically just paying attention to the symptoms your body is try to tell you about.
Combine all the ingredients above into a small jar or bowl. Mix well and rub over the chest, upper back and throat.
Half fill a large basin with the hot water then add to this the Eucalyptus essential oil drops. Place a towel over your head enveloping the basin leaving as few gaps as possible. Gently inhale the Eucalyptus fumes for 10-15 minutes, breathing deeply. You may need to come up for air occasionally if it gets too overpowering or to blow your nose.
Here is a super easy facial gel using aloe vera and essential oils. This recipe includes blends for acne, dry skin and problem skin such as rosacea.
You can use your own natural skin care blend if you prefer, be creative and use your favorite essential oils best suited for your skin type.
Click here for the new aromatherapy essential oil recipe for Aloe Vera Facial Gel
If you suffer from dry, sore or chapped lips, try this easy to make, all natural lip balm recipe which will heal and soften the roughest of lips.
After receiving my latest batch of new essential oils from Mountain Rose Herbs, as always I decided to experiment with a few new aromatherapy diffuser blends. I haven’t used Rose Geranium too much before so I really wanted to include that in one of my new mixes. Rose Geranium is very similar to Geranium but I find it a much lighter smell and of course with a gorgeous rose-like aroma. The latin name is Pelargonium graveolens and Geranium which has more of an apple-like aroma is Pelargonium odorantissimum.
So if I wanted to use this essential oil, what could I find to blend with it? Firstly I wanted an uplifting blend as I had a full day of work ahead of me. One of my favorite essential oils that I love to diffuse when I’m working is Basil. I did a quick smell test and my sense of smell agreed that they would blend well together so all I needed was to find a third essential oil. Bergamot is another lovely uplifting and refreshing aromatherapy oil and on doing the smell test again all three work together beautifully.
Here is the blend and the amounts that I added to my diffuser:
In keeping with the Geranium theme, the next day I decided to try another blend, this time with the normal Geranium. This essential oil blend also needed to be uplifting and one of the many essential oils I love for this is Ginger. Ginger essential oil is also excellent for sharpening the memory which can be very helpful for my various work activities. Lime is another wonderful aromatherapy oil for both memory and sharpening the senses. As well as being uplifting I find it very refreshing if I’m feeling tired and in need of that extra boost.
So for diffuser blend number two, here are the amounts I used:
Your elbows can often become very dry and sometimes even scaly so using this rich elbow cream on a regular basis, will help your elbows to become soft and smooth.
If you suffer from acne or even just the occasional break-out, try this new facial clay mask recipe, especially for acne.
A new addition to the facial clay mask recipe page is the Facial Clay Mask for Mature Skin.
Please find the new recipe here – Facial Clay Mask for Mature Skin
Another new recipe added in the natural skin care section is the anti wrinkle cream.
Please find the new recipe here – Anti wrinkle cream
