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Balancing
Back Rub Blend
Ingredients
30 drops German Chamomile Precious Essential?
10 drops Roman chamomile precious essential oil
6 drops peppermint essential oil
4 drops wintergreen essential oil
2 drops clove essential oil
Directions
Rub this at the base of the back and down through the buttocks and as far down as you feel the irritation from the sciatica.
Benefits
Balancing
Balancing Citrus and Spice Aromatherapy Air Freshener
The bright scent of citrus and spice can melt the feelings of lethargy that often accompany winter. The uplifting aroma of this spicy citrus blend is reminiscent of a clove-studded orange.
Ingredients
32 ounces water
1/2 teaspoon sweet orange essential oil
1/2 teaspoon clove bud essential oil
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon essential oil
Directions
Mix oils and water in a 32-ounce mister bottle. Shake well and use to mist the air throughout your home.
Benefits
Balancing
Calming Vanilla Massage for Infants
Ingredients
1 teaspoon unscented massage cream
4 drops Vanilla Precious Essential?
Directions
Combine cream and oil. Use to gently massage baby.
Benefits
Balancing
Cooling Foot Cream
After a therapeutic soak and scrub, rinse feet well and follow up with a delightful foot massage using this cooling cream.
Ingredients
1/2 ounce melted beeswax
4 ounces sweet almond oil or 3 ounces chamomile tea
3 ounces warm mint tea or 3 ounces warm chamomile tea
21 drops lavender essential oil
9 drops peppermint essential oil
6 drops spearmint essential oil
Directions
Melt the beeswax and almond oil together in a double boiler. Add the warm tea to the wax and oil mixture in a thin stream, whisking vigorously. Remove the mixture from heat and immerse the bowl in a cool water bath to make the cream congeal, again whisking vigorously. As the cream begins to form, add the essential oils, drop by drop, and whisk them into the mixture.
Benefits
Balancing
Exotic Island Potpourri
Ylang ylang is a fun addition to this Exotic Island Potpourri.
Ingredients
1 cup dried orange or lemon peel
1 cup bay leaves
1 cup whole allspice
1 cup cinnamon sticks
20 drops ylang ylang essential oil
20 drops mandarin orange essential oil
15 drops cinnamon essential oil
4 drops vetiver essential oil
Directions
Combine all ingredients in a covered container. Store the container for three weeks, shaking periodically to distribute the aroma.
Display the potpourri in a decorative container.
Sprinkle the potpourri with more essential oils to renew the fragrance as needed.
Benefits
Balancing
Forest Fresh Room Spray
Here's a fresh, natural room spray with odor-fighting properties and purifying action.
Ingredients
4 ounces water
4 drops tangerine essential oil
10 drops fir needle essential oil
10 drops pine essential oil
Directions
Mix oils and water in a spray bottle. Shake vigorously and mist rooms throughout your home.
Benefits
Balancing
Freshen Up Formula
Ingredients
6 drops rose absolute essential oil
3 drops lavender essential oil
1 drop vanilla essential oil
Directions
Combine oils.
Bacteria causes odor. This perfect, gentle combination of antibacterial oils can be applied to areas of the body where some of the most offensive odors occur and linger.
Benefits
Balancing
Furniture Oil
A natural and aromatic solution for dusting wooden furniture and floors.
Ingredients
4 ounces jojoba oil
12 drops lemon essential oil
4 drops lemongrass essential oil
8 drops sandalwood essential oil
Directions
Combine jojoba and essential oils in a spray bottle. Shake and apply lightly to wood surfaces or onto dusting cloth and wipe.
Benefits
Balancing
Geranium Balancing Aromatherapy Blend
The balancing effect that geranium oil has on our emotions is often utilized in aromatherapy. Though geranium is distilled from leaves, its aroma and effects are comparable to floral oils, such as rose and lavender. Humans are drawn to floral aromas because their pleasant scents can be uplifting and gently inspiring -- or evoke a sense of calm and tranquility.
Ingredients
35 drops geranium essential oil
35 drops lavender essential oil
20 drops bergamot essential oil
10 drops rose essential oil
Directions
Combine all of the oils. Put six drops of the oil blend and one ounce of water into an aromatherapy lamp. Gently diffuse the relaxing aroma during times of stress.
We Suggest
Tip: For a more immediate release of this tranquil blend, try dispensing it from a spray mister.
Benefits
Balancing
Geranium Tonifying Cream
Geranium skin preparations are gently astringent, opening pores and clearing oily complexions. A tonifying cream containing geranium oil makes a nourishing moisturizer and makeup remover.
Ingredients
1/2 ounce beeswax
3 ounces jojoba oil
1 ounce rosehip seed oil
3 ounces distilled water
15 drops geranium essential oil
10 drops carrot seed oil
10 drops lavender essential oil
Directions
Heat the wax, jojoba and rosehip seed oils in a double boiler until the wax melts. Add the water gradually while whisking the mixture into a creamy emulsion. Continue whisking until the cream cools, incorporating the essential oils.
Store in a tightly closed container.
Benefits
Balancing
Lavender Balancing Aromatherapy Blend
Lavender is one of the most adaptable essential oils for creating aromatherapy blends or fragrances. It adapts well to rich floral oils like rose otto or strong herbaceous oils like camphoraceous rosemary. The aromatherapy benefits of lavender are equally adaptable. The addition of lavender can make a rich, sedative, floral blend more refreshing and uplifting, and it can make an invigorating, herbaceous blend more soothing.
Ingredients
7 drops lavender essential oil
7 drops bergamot essential oil
1 drop patchouli essential oil
1 drop juniper berry essential oil
Directions
Combine all ingredients.
Use this balancing aromatherapy blend in the bath (5 to 10 drops per bath), a spray mister (10 drops per ounce of distilled water), or an aromatherapy lamp.
Benefits
Balancing
Luxurious Foot Bath
The sensitive skin and tissues of the feet contain many nerves and blood vessels that readily absorb the healing effects of essential oils and carry them throughout the body. A foot massage can be easily performed on oneself and is a perfect stress-reducing activity.
Ingredients
2 tablespoons sea salt
1 tablespoon Epsom salts
1 tablespoon sodium bicarbonate or 1 tablespoon baking soda
1 tablespoon French white clay powder
8 drops lavender oil
4 drops rose oil
4 drops cedarwood oil
2 drops patchouli oil
2 gallons of hot water
1 tablespoon rose petals
1 tablespoon lavender flowers
Directions
Combine dry ingredients. Add the essential oils and mix evenly.
Dissolve the mixture into a large basin containing two gallons of hot water. Sprinkle flowers into basin and soak feet for as long as desired.
Benefits
Balancing
Oily Hair Treatment
Red cedarwood oil is strongly astringent and makes an excellent treatment for oily hair.
Ingredients
3 drops cedarwood essential oil
2 drops rosemary essential oil
1 teaspoon olive oil
Directions
Combine oils.
Gently massage this mixture into the hair before shampooing.
Benefits
Balancing
Patchouli Personal Essence
This recipe will produce a distinctive and adaptable bodynote for a personal essence.
Ingredients
10 drops bergamot essential oil
4 drops rose essential oil
6 drops patchouli essential oil
Directions
Combine all oils.
We Suggest
The rich, floral aroma can be lightened with the addition of complementary topnotes like lavender or lemon. The rose heart of the essence can be developed into a more complex floral note with the addition of neroli or jasmine. Clove and cinnamon will produce a spicier fragrance.
Benefits
Balancing
Red Cedarwood Perfume
Cedarwood can impart a subtle, woody balance and longer life to the powerful floral aroma of rose otto and rose absolute.
Ingredients
30 drops rose essential oil
20 drops cedarwood essential oil
20 drops sandalwood essential oil
20 drops myrrh essential oil
10 drops patchouli essential oil
Directions
Combine oils.
Dilute 5 drops of this richly scented blend in 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil, and use as a perfume.
Benefits
Balancing
Scalp Rescue
Ingredients
2 ounces unscented massage cream
3 drops rose otto essential oil
5 drops sandalwood essential oil
Directions
Benefits
Balancing
Skin Saver
Ingredients
1 drop carrot seed essential oil
1 drop German Chamomile Precious Essential?
3 drops rose otto precious essential oil
Directions
Wash hands and face thoroughly. Drop each essential oil into the palm of your hand. Liberally massage into the face and neck, concentrating on dry patches.
We Suggest
Dry skin can impede the penetration of essential oils, so, if possible, exfoliate the skin before use. This will help slough off dead, dry skin and expose fresh, clear skin.
Benefits
Balancing
Super Fun Creamy Sickle Scent for Kids
Ingredients
4 drops Vanilla Precious Essential?
1 drop sweet orange essential oil
Directions
Blend oils together in a small plastic container or directly in the palm of the hand. Dab on the wrists, the neck, or behind the ears. Or blend into Aura Cacia's Unscented Body Massage Cream and use as a lotion.
Benefits
Balancing
Uplifting Bath and Body Oil
Versatile aromatherapy for a luxurious bath or natural skin nourishment
Ingredients
3 ounces grapeseed oil
1 ounce apricot kernel oil
9 drops geranium essential oil
9 drops lavender essential oil
6 drops lemongrass essential oil
Directions
Combine all ingredients. Use 2 to 3 tablespoons in bath. Or apply as a nourishing body oil to damp skin after showering.
Benefits
Balancing
Wintertime Aromatherapy Blend
A wonderful combination of winter-season oils like pine and fir needle are sweetened with fruity bergamot and juniper berry to create an indispensable aroma with therapeutic and aesthetic properties.
Ingredients
10 drops cedarwood essential oil
25 drops bergamot orange essential oil
15 drops fir needle essential oil
30 drops juniper berry essential oil
20 drops sandalwood essential oil
Directions
Combine ingredients.
For an emotionally strengthening, muscle-warming massage oil, dilute 12 drops of this blend in 3 ounces of vegetable oil.
To diffuse in the air, place 1/4 cup water and 10 drops of the blend in a candle lamp. Or simply add 10 drops to a terracotta ornament-style diffuser.
Benefits
Balancing
Centering
Eucalyptus Spiritually Energizing Blend
Small amounts of eucalyptus oil skillfully blended with uplifting, gently inspiring oils such as bergamot, lemon and lavender, support and activate transcendent, as opposed to deeply reflective, meditative inner work.
Ingredients
30 drops bergamot essential oil
50 drops lemon essential oil
20 drops lemon eucalyptus essential oil
Directions
Combine oils.
Add 10 to 15 drops of this blend to 1/4 cup distilled water, and place the mixture in an aromatherapy candle diffuser lamp. The gentle diffusion created by a flickering candle lamp is very effective in spiritual aromatherapy work.
Benefits
Centering
Focusing Temple Massage
Use this massage blend to facilitate creative work and to enhance concentration.
Ingredients
1 tablespoon grapeseed oil
3 drops clary sage essentil oil
3 drops bergamot essential oil
Directions
Combine all oils.
Place 1 or two drops of the mixture on your fingertips and gently massage your temples. Close your eyes as the warm, sweet aroma of the blend penetrates; envision the creative work before you.
Benefits
Centering
Foot Soak
Ingredients
10 drops Frankincense Precious Essential?
2 drops peppermint essential oil
2 drops sandalwood essential oil
Directions
Combine ingredients. Add blend to a bowl of water big enough to soak your feet.
We Suggest
This blend provides an especially nice foot massage when added to Aura Cacia's Unscented Body Massage Cream.
Benefits
Centering
Harmonious Energy Flow Massage Blend
An aromatherapy blend inspired by the traditional Chinese can evoke a feeling of gentle clarity and inspire the harmonious flow of emotional energy. It uses oils with balancing and mildly energizing aromas.
Ingredients
28 drops patchouli essential oil
28 drops lavender essential oil
29 drops bergamot essential oil
10 drops clary sage essential oil
5 drops rosemary essential oil
Directions
Combine all oils.
Add three drops of this blend to 1 ounce vegetable oil and use as a massage oil.
Benefits
Centering
Meditative Candle Lamp Diffusion
This rich, frankincense- and myrrh-based blend is well suited to the spiritual renewal and meditation that accompany winter. Its rich, sweet aroma is meditative and relaxing.
Ingredients
1/4 cup water
3 drops lemon essential oil
3 drops frankincense essential oil
3 drops myrrh essential oil
Candle aromatherapy lamp
Directions
Place water and oils in a candle aromatherapy lamp. Light candle.
Benefits
Centering
Energizing
Air Purifying & Deodorizing Room Spray
Utilize the cleansing and disinfecting benefits of essential oils AND enjoy a pure aromatherapy experience with this all natural air freshener.
Ingredients
4 ounces water
16 drops lemon essential oil
6 drops red thyme essential oil or white thyme essential oil
2 drops patchouli essential oil
Directions
Combine water and oils in a 4-ounce spray bottle. Shake vigorously and mist stale room air.
Benefits
Energizing, Refreshing
Basil Refreshing and Rejuvenating Basil Aromatherapy Blend
The fresh, sweet aroma of this blend helps relieve the physical and emotional fatigue associated with stress. The spicy green basil nuance also inspires clarity and positive thinking.
Ingredients
35 drops basil essential oil
35 drops bergamot essential oil
5 drops eucalyptus essential oil
10 drops lavender essential oil
15 drops peppermint essential oil
Directions
Combine 12 drops of the blend with 1/4 cup distilled water and diffuse it into the air using a candle aromatherapy lamp.
Benefits
Energizing
Emotional Release Blend
The delectable aroma of grapefruit has a pronounced impact on the senses and emotions. In aromatherapy applications, grapefruit is refreshing, cheering, slightly euphoria-inducing and slightly energizing. Grapefruit's sweet and familiar aroma can evoke warm feelings that melt sour dispositions. Grapefruit is a "releasing" oil -- so personalities that tend to harbor resentment or keep emotions bottled up can benefit from inhaling this oil.
Ingredients
90 drops grapefruit oil essential oil
5 drops bergamot essential oil
5 drops rose otto essential oil
Directions
Combine oils.
Mix six drops of this blend with one ounce of water, and diffuse in an aromatherapy lamp for an emotional rescue.
Benefits
Energizing
Energizing Liquid Shower Soap
A vigorous, aromatic shower featuring energizing essential oils is a great way to wake up to the work day. This recipe is especially effective in the midst of a strenuous work week, to combat yesterday's fatigue and prepare for today's challenges.
Ingredients
4 ounces unscented liquid soap
14 drops cypress essential oil
8 drops lavender essential oil
2 drops peppermint essential oil
Directions
Mix oils and liquid soap and use anytime you need an energizing boost.
Benefits
Energizing
Eucalyptus Massage Oil
Aromatherapy applications rely on the activating, vitalizing and energizing actions inspired by eucalyptus. An activating eucalyptus massage oil is effective for sore and aching muscles.
Ingredients
20 drops eucalyptus essential oil
20 drops lavender essential oil
5 drops peppermint essential oil
20 drops rosewood essential oil
5 drops wintergreen essential oil
Directions
Combine all oils.
Add no more than 36 drops of this blend to 3 ounces of sweet almond oil. Shake briefly. Massage a small amount into tired, achy muscles and joints.
Benefits
Energizing
Eucalyptus Workout Spritzer
This activating formula is great to carry in the gym. Whenever a workout routine needs a little boost, simply spritz your face lightly and inhale the fresh, invigorating aroma.
Ingredients
20 drops eucalyptus essential oil
40 drops lavender essential oil
20 drops lemon essential oil
10 drops petitgrain essential oil
10 dash spearmint essential oil
Directions
Combine all oils.
Add no more than 36 drops of this blend to 3 ounces of distilled water. Shake vigorously and add to a bottle with a spray atomizer attachment. Be sure to shake the bottle before each application.
We Suggest
Not only is this blend inspiring, it also combats locker room odor.
Benefits
Energizing
Foresty Fresh Aromatherapy Blend
This blend's balsamic, evergreen fragrance and sweet citrus-woody undertone provide refreshing and uplifting aromatherapy benefits.
Ingredients
37 drops fir needle essential oil
33 drops tangerine essential oil
10 drops juniper berry essential oil
20 drops cedarwood essential oil
Directions
Mix essential oils in a 22-ounce spray bottle filled with water. (Shake bottle before spraying.)
Tip: Wipe windows with crumpled newspapers to impart shine.
Benefits
Energizing
Freshening Window Cleaner
Utilize the cleaning and disinfecting benefits of essential oils AND enjoy a pure aromatherapy experience.
Ingredients
4 tablespoons vinegar
12 drops lemon essential oil
Directions
Mix vinegar and essential oil in a 22- to 32-ounce spray bottle. Fill with water and use as a window cleaner. Tip: Shake bottle before spraying. Wipe windows with crumpled newspapers to impart shine.
Benefits
Energizing
Mineral Bath
Try this recipe for creating an emotionally uplifting and skin-soothing citrus & herbal scented bath. Enjoy!
Ingredients
4 tablespoons sea salt
2 tablespoons baking soda
2 tablespoons powdered oatmeal
8 drops tangerine essential oil
8 drops lavender essential oil
8 drops chamomile essential oil
Directions
Mix dry ingredients, sprinkle with oils and mix until fully incorporated. Add desired amount to bath water.
Add 1 cup whole milk or buttermilk to enhance skin nourishing.
Benefits
Energizing
Mouth Freshening Gargle
Ingredients
2 drops peppermint essential oil
1 drop myrrh essential oil
1 drop tea tree oil
Directions
Combine oils and blend with a small amount of milk (rice, soy, dairy, hemp, almond, etc.). (Water is okay, but the fat in the milk acts as a buffer and effectively distributes the oils.)
Use to gargle or swish in the mouth for approximately 60 seconds several times each day. Continue as necessary.
Take care not to swallow!
We Suggest
One or two drops of thyme or oregano essential oil can be added to this blend. Be careful, however, as some find these oils to be somewhat irritating.
Benefits
Energizing
Oily Skin Facial Mask
This natural facial mask relies on thel astringency of essential oils to help dissolve excess oil. Cornmeal provides a gentle buffing action to remove dead skin cells, while ground almonds provide a non-drying, soap-free cleansing action.
Ingredients
3 tablespoons white cornmeal
3 tablespoons freshly ground raw almond meal
10 drops lavender essential oil
5 drops bergamot essential oil
3 drops clary sage essential oil
2 to 3 tablespoons water
Directions
Mix corn and almond meal with essential oils. Gradually add water until a creamy paste forms.
Apply to skin in gentle, circular buffing motion. Allow to dry and tighten. Rinse with lukewarm water, then pat dry.
Benefits
Energizing, Refreshing
Outdoor Lotion
Ingredients
1 cup sweet almond oil or apricot kernel oil
3/4 ounce beeswax
1 cup lukewarm water-based liquid like green tea, hydrosol, rainwater or aloe juice
28 drops lemon eucalyptus essential oil
6 drops lavender essential oil
4 drops grapefruit essential oil
2 drops geranium essential oil
Directions
Add beeswax to oil in a Pyrex cup or bowl. Place in a hot water bath. Heat until melted. Allow the mixture to cool.
Place the water-based liquid in a blender. When the temperatures of the oil and water are comparable, turn on the blender and add the oil in a thin stream. Blend until a cream develops. Blend in the essential oils and store in a jar in the refrigerator.
We Suggest
A pinch of Sodium Borate (Borax) dissolved in the water prior to blending will help emulsify the mixture and prevent separation.
Benefits
Energizing, Refreshing
Purifying & Energizing Workout Mist
Boost your motivation and energy during your next workout with an energizing blend.
Ingredients
4 ounces water
8 drops lemon essential oil
8 drops peppermint essential oil
5 drops rosemary essential oil
spray bottle
Directions
Combine water and oils in spray bottle. Shake well and use as an air freshener or to purify exercise equipment. Or spray into your workout towel.
Benefits
Energizing
Refreshing Eau de Cologne Mist
Aromatherapists use rosemary's briskly energizing aroma to combat nervous exhaustion and fatigue. This effect can be so powerful that rosemary is not recommended for use by people with epilepsy or high blood pressure.
Ingredients
8 ounces distilled water
12 drops bergamot essential oil
12 drops lemon essential oil
6 drops rosemary essential oil
5 drops lavender essential oil
5 drops petitgrain essential oil
Directions
Pour this mixture into a bottle with a spray atomizer attachment. Shake the bottle vigorously and mist over exposed skin.
Benefits
Energizing
Revitalizing Foot Soak
Ingredients
2 tablespoons sea salt
1 tablespoon Epsom salts
1 tablespoon sodium bicarbonate or baking soda
1 tablespoon French white clay powder
12 drops lavender essential oil
2 drops peppermint essential oil
1 drop spearmint essential oil
Directions
Combine dry ingredients. Add oils and mix evenly.
Add to a warm water bath tub or foot soak tub.
Benefits
Energizing
Shop 'til You Drop Blend
Ingredients
2 ounces carrier oil or unscented massage cream
3 drops peppermint essential oil
2 drops sweet orange essential oil
1 drop clove essential oil
1 drop wintergreen essential oil
Directions
We Suggest
When you get home from shopping, mix the same oils but substitute the massage cream for the Aura Cacia Body Polish.
Benefits
Energizing
Stimulating Blend
Ingredients
10 drops peppermint essential oil
3 drops eucalyptus essential oil
2 drops ginger essential oil
3 drops sweet orange essential oil
Directions
Combine ingredients. Use for inhalation.
We Suggest
To use on the skin, add two or more ounces of carrier oil or unscented massage cream.
Benefits
Energizing
Purifying Toilet Bowl Cleanser
Utilize the cleaning benefits of essential oils AND enjoy a pure aromatherapy experience.
Ingredients
18 ounces water
1/4 cup liquid castile soap
4 drops lavender essential oil
4 drops tea tree
4 drops lemon essential oil
Directions
Combine all ingredients in a 22-ounce spray bottle. Spray toilet bowl, scrub with brush, and flush.
Benefits
Energizing, Refreshing
Refreshing Eau de Cologne Mist
Aromatherapists use rosemary's briskly energizing aroma to combat nervous exhaustion and fatigue. This effect can be so powerful that rosemary is not recommended for use by people with epilepsy or high blood pressure.
Ingredients
8 ounces distilled water
12 drops bergamot essential oil
12 drops lemon essential oil
6 drops rosemary essential oil
5 drops lavender essential oil
5 drops petitgrain essential oil
Directions
Pour this mixture into a bottle with a spray atomizer attachment. Shake the bottle vigorously and mist over exposed skin.
Benefits
Energizing
Revitalizing Foot Soak
Ingredients
2 tablespoons sea salt
1 tablespoon Epsom salts
1 tablespoon sodium bicarbonate or baking soda
1 tablespoon French white clay powder
12 drops lavender essential oil
2 drops peppermint essential oil
1 drop spearmint essential oil
Directions
Combine dry ingredients. Add oils and mix evenly.
Add to a warm water bath tub or foot soak tub.
Benefits
Energizing
Shop 'til You Drop Blend
Ingredients
2 ounces carrier oil or unscented massage cream
3 drops peppermint essential oil
2 drops sweet orange essential oil
1 drop clove essential oil
1 drop wintergreen essential oil
Directions
We Suggest
When you get home from shopping, mix the same oils but substitute the massage cream for the Aura Cacia Body Polish.
Benefits
Energizing
Stimulating Blend
Ingredients
10 drops peppermint essential oil
3 drops eucalyptus essential oil
2 drops ginger essential oil
3 drops sweet orange essential oil
Directions
Combine ingredients. Use for inhalation.
We Suggest
To use on the skin, add two or more ounces of carrier oil or unscented massage cream.
Benefits
Energizing
Summertime Body Mist
Summertime activities like picnics, camping, gardening and outdoor vacations, call for this protecting and healing aromatherapy body mist.
Ingredients
1 teaspoon plain vinegar or herb-infused vinegar (lavender, rose, peppermint, etc.)
8 drops lemon eucalyptus essential oil
8 drops lavender essential oil
4 drops grapefruit essential oil
4 drops geranium essential oil
24 ounces cool, freshly brewed green tea
2 ounces aloe gel or extract
Directions
Place vinegar in a spray-mister bottle. Add the essential oils and shake. Add green tea and aloe. Cap and use to mist airspace around outdoor activities as well as skin after a day spent in the sun.
Always shake well before use.
Benefits
Summertime Room Spray
This blend will freshen your house with the aroma of a perfect summer day. It combines bergamot with other oils that are evocative of summertime.
Ingredients
4 ounces water
Small spray bottle
8 drops bergamot essential oil
8 drops lavender essential oil
Directions
Combine oils and water in spray bottle. Shake well and liberally mist room air throughout your home
Benefits
Energizing, Refreshing
Sweet Clarity Blend
Many aromatherapy blends formulated to be energizing can be a bit too brisk and overpowering. But this blend combines oils that yield an energizing benefit with sweetly scented ones, making a combination that's pleasant and uplifting. This blend is wonderful inhaled directly from the bottle or diffused when studying for a test or sitting through a long meeting.
Ingredients
20 drops peppermint essential oil
20 drops spearmint essential oil
35 drops lavandin essential oil
25 drops lemon essential oil
Directions
Combine oils. Use for inhalation or in a room diffuser.
We Suggest
Make a Consternation Massage by adding 3 drops of the Sweet Clarity blend to 1 ounce of sweet almond vegetable oil. Apply a few drops of this mixture to the fingertips and gently massage the temples during times of stress and confusion.
Benefits
Energizing
Uplifting Lemon Blend
This balanced blend of inspiring and relaxing oils can have a gently uplifting effect on the emotions.
Ingredients
20 drops lemon essential oil
20 drops tangerine essential oil
25 drops neroli essential oil
35 drops lavender essential oil
Directions
Combine oils. Place a few drops on a handkerchief whenever a little emotional boost is needed. Or use the blend in an aromatherapy lamp or diffuser.
Benefits
Energizing
Passion
Amyris Sensual Touch Massage Oil
Ingredients
5 drops amyris essential oil
3 drops jasmine absolute essential
2 drops Mandarin orange essential oil
3 drops Aura Cacia Sweet Almond Oil
Directions
Mix essential oils and sweet almond oil. Dispense into palm of hand. Apply in a gentle massage over entire body.
Benefits
Passion
Cocoa Butter Wintertime Body Moisturizer
Fair Trade guarantees that the growers of Aura Cacia's cocoa butter get a fair price for their product, while you end up with guilt-free, natural body care. Aura Cacia Fair Trade Cocoa Butter is minimally refined, so it retains all of the luxurious aroma and skin-moisturizing nutrients of the cocoa bean.
Ingredients
1 container Aura Cacia Fair Trade cocoa butter
2 cups sweet almond oil
1 1/2 teaspoons Vanilla Precious Essential?
Directions
Place cocoa butter in freezer for 10 minutes until it pops out of the container easily, then place in a saucepan and melt over gentle heat. Add sweet almond oil and continue heating just until liquid has clarified. Remove from heat and stir in Vanilla Precious Essential? oil. Let cool into a salve-like cream.
Use as an all-over body moisturizer.
We Suggest
For a creamier consistency, try whipping the mixture during the cool-down phase.
Benefits
Passion, Purifying
Fizzing Jasmine Bath Brew
Ingredients
3 tablespoons baking soda
3 tablespoons sea salt (table grind)
2 tablespoons citric acid granules or crushed vitamin C tablets
1 cup fresh white rose petals
10 drops sweet orange essential oil
6 drops sandalwood essential oil
3 drops jasmine absolute essential oil
Directions
Combine dry ingredients and sprinkle mix with essential oils. Add all ingredients to a tub of very warm water.
We Suggest
Enhance this luxurious bath brew with a cup of whole milk or a tablespoon of skin-nourishing jojoba oil.
Add a natural, unscented bubble bath if desired.
Benefits
Passion
Love Potion Mist
Make your own all-natural body mists to spritz your face (remember to close your eyes), your hands and arms, your feet, or anywhere else to evoke the mood you desire.
Ingredients
6 drops ylang ylang essential oil
5 drops rose absolute essential oil
1 drop clove bud essential oil
Directions
Add essential oils to a cup of water in a non-plastic mister. Essential oils float on water, so don't forget to shake well before each use.
Benefits
Passion
Lovers Massage
Create a sensory experience by combining aromatherapy with an erotic massage. Create the following blend to entice desire and inspire romance.
Ingredients
1 tablespoon grapeseed oil
1 tablespoon sweet almond or apricot kernel oil
10 drops rose absolute essential oil
7 drops sandalwood essential oil
Directions
Find a warm, cozy place free from interruptions and take turns massaging with your partner.
Benefits
Passion
Rose Absolute Sensual Perfume Oil
Ingredients
1 tablespoon grapeseed oil
1 tablespoon jojoba oil
10 drops rose absolute essential oil
7 drops sandalwood essential oil
Directions
Mix oils and store in a small glass vial. Massage a drop or two into pulse points.
Benefits
Passion
Rose Anointing Oil
Ingredients
1 ounce grapeseed or 1 ounce jojoba oil
3 drops rose otto essential oil or 3 drops rose absolute essential oil
3 drops mandarin or 3 drops sweet orange essential oil
1 drop sandalwood essential oil
Directions
Combine oils. Dab this evocative essence on pulse points, over the heart or the solar plexus, or upon the third eye of the forehead.
Benefits
Passion
Purifying
Cocoa Butter Wintertime Body Moisturizer
Fair Trade guarantees that the growers of Aura Cacia's cocoa butter get a fair price for their product, while you end up with guilt-free, natural body care. Aura Cacia Fair Trade Cocoa Butter is minimally refined, so it retains all of the luxurious aroma and skin-moisturizing nutrients of the cocoa bean.
Ingredients
1 container Aura Cacia Fair Trade cocoa butter
2 cups sweet almond oil
1 1/2 teaspoons Vanilla Precious Essential?
Directions
Place cocoa butter in freezer for 10 minutes until it pops out of the container easily, then place in a saucepan and melt over gentle heat. Add sweet almond oil and continue heating just until liquid has clarified. Remove from heat and stir in Vanilla Precious Essential? oil. Let cool into a salve-like cream.
Use as an all-over body moisturizer.
We Suggest
For a creamier consistency, try whipping the mixture during the cool-down phase.
Benefits
Passion, Purifying
Cooling & Purifying Foot Massage
The combination of nourishing tamanu and essential oils will cool and purify tired feet after a long day.
Ingredients
1 ounce organic tamanu oil
6 drops tea tree essential oil
6 drops peppermint essential oil
Directions
Add essential oils to bottle of tamanu oil. Mix well. Massage thoroughly into feet and toes, concentrating on pressure points.
Benefits
Purifying
Refreshing
Air Clarifying Diffusion
Ingredients
3 drops basil essential oil
3 drops thyme essential oil
10 drops lemon essential oil
Directions
DO NOT INGEST!
In a small glass (a shot glass, glass ramekin or glass measuring device works well) blend the recommended oils. Drop into your favorite diffuser or humidifier, or simply breathe deeply directly from your blending glass. Be very careful not to get on the hands or skin, as it could be quite irritating.
When finished with the blend, simply set the glass aside in a place that is out of the reach of children. The oils will continue to volatize, and the aroma will be useful and enjoyed for hours. You may also choose to empty the oils into a sink, bathtub, or shower, where they will continue to volatize until they are washed down the drain. Natural diffusers in your household?such as pinecones, dark carpets, and pillows?are also excellent choices.
Benefits
Refreshing
Air Purifying & Deodorizing Room Spray
Utilize the cleansing and disinfecting benefits of essential oils AND enjoy a pure aromatherapy experience with this all natural air freshener.
Ingredients
4 ounces water
16 drops lemon essential oil
6 drops red thyme essential oil or white thyme essential oil
2 drops patchouli essential oil
Directions
Combine water and oils in a 4-ounce spray bottle. Shake vigorously and mist stale room air.
Benefits
Energizing, Refreshing
Chest Rub
Ingredients
1 to 2 drops eucalyptus essential oil
1 drop peppermint essential oil
small amount of the massage cream
Directions
Mix oils and cream together in the palm of your hand, and rub on before going to bed.
Benefits
Refreshing
Clarifying Study Blend
The mental clarity that this powerful blend inspires may help you recall the important details needed to ace a test or shine at your next presentation.
Ingredients
9 drops rosemary essential oil
13 drops lemon essential oil
2 drops cypress essential oil
Directions
Combine all oils.
Try brief inhalations of the blend while committing facts and figures to memory, and again while trying to recall the information
Benefits
Refreshing
Comforting Winter Blend
Ingredients
5 drops bay essential oil
5 drops fennel seed essential oil
10 drops anise essential oil
Directions
Not to be ingested!
In a small glass (a shot glass, glass ramekin or glass measuring device works well) blend the recommended oils. Drop into your favorite diffuser or humidifier, or simply breathe deeply directly from your blending glass. Be very careful not to get on the hands or skin, as it could be quite irritating.
When finished with the blend, simply set the glass aside in a place that is out of the reach of children. The oils will continue to volatize, and the aroma will be useful and enjoyed for hours. You may also choose to empty the oils into a sink, bathtub, or shower, where they will continue to volatize until they are washed down the drain. Natural diffusers in your household?such as pinecones, dark carpets, and pillows?are also excellent choices.
Benefits
Refreshing
Energizing Rosemary Hair Oil
Rosemary oil acts as an astringent and will help regulate or decrease oily secretions of the hair folicles. For this reason rosemary hair care preparations are often used by people with greasy hair and dandruff.
Ingredients
3 ounces virgin olive oil
5 drops rosemary essential oil
5 drops lavender essential oil
2 drops sandalwood essential oil
Directions
Gently massage a few drops of this mixture into the scalp and throughout the hair. This will impart a fragrant, moisturizing sheen.
Benefits
Refreshing
Eucalyptus Steamer
Ingredients
1 to 2 drops eucalyptus essential oil
1 bowl of steaming water
1 large towel
Directions
Add the eucalyptus to the steaming water. Lean over the bowl. Pull the towel over the head and the bowl (like a tent). Keep eyes closed and breathe deeply.
Benefits
Refreshing
Foot Fetish
Ingredients
15 drops Sandalwood Precious Essential?
5 drops rose absolute essential oil
1 drop sweet orange essential oil
1 drop vanilla precious essential oil
Directions
Combine all ingredients. Massage into the feet just before putting on clean socks.
You can also add this blend to 4 to 6 ounces of water in a spray bottle, and use to spray to your shoes. These oils are antibacterial and antifungal and will make even the stinkiest shoes smell good.
Benefits
Refreshing
Jojoba-Based Perfume Oil
The jojoba-oil base of this perfume oil won?t dry or irritate the skin like the alcohol used in regular fragrances.
Ingredients
3 tablespoons jojoba essential oil
3 drops ylang ylang or jasmine absolute oil
3 drops lemon essential oil
3 drops sandalwood essential oil
Directions
Combine jojoba and essential oils in a small bottle. Dab mixture onto pulse points.
Benefits
Refreshing
Lemon Skin Brightener
Lemon oil is astringent and detoxifying and is therefore great for blemishes associated with oily skin. Lemon oil also has rejuvenating properties and will brighten dull skin.
Ingredients
3 drops lemon essential oil
3 drops lavender essential oil
3 tablespoons distilled water
Directions
Combine all ingredients.
Use a soft cotton ball to gently massage this mixture into the skin after cleansing. Follow up with a moisturizer.
Benefits
Refreshing
Lemongrass Skin Tonic
Aromatherapists value lemongrass for its ability to both calm and revitalize, to relieve tension, invigorate, and inspire. The tall tropical grass fills this tall order beautifully.
Ingredients
6 drops lavender essential oil
1 drop clary sage essential oil
1 drop chamomile essential oil
4 drops lemongrass essential oil
2 ounces distilled water
Directions
Add the essential oils to the distilled water, then pour into a spritzer bottle. Close your eyes, and mist your skin. Keep this in the refrigerator, and you'll have a cooling, refreshing lift.
Benefits
Refreshing
Medieval Magik
Ingredients
100 drops Medieval Mix
50 drops lemon essential oil
3 ounces water
Directions
Combine ingredients in a spray bottle. Use as a refreshing air spray.
Benefits
Refreshing
Muscle & Joint Soothing Aromatherapy Massage Oil
Create this penetrating massage blend to soothe and restore sore, tired muscles after a long, hard day or vigorous workout.
Ingredients
2 tablespoons sweet almond
1 tablespoon grapeseed or jojoba oil
3 drops lavender essential oil
3 drops peppermint essential oil
3 drops eucalyptus essential oil
Directions
Combine all ingredients and mix well. Massage oil into muscles.
Use more to create slippery glide and less to create friction and warmth.
Benefits
Refreshing, Relaxing
North Woods Sauna Blend
In aromatherapy, pine is used in saunas, steam baths and massage blends for sore muscles. The natural evergreen aroma of pine essential oil is a sweet alternative to harshly medicinal pharmaceutical preparations. Here's a recipe that combines the oils of several plants used to add, therapeutic fragrance to steams and saunas.
Ingredients
30 drops pine essential oil
30 drops lemon essential oil
20 drops juniper berry essential oil
10 drops fir needle essential oil
5 drops sweet birch essential oil
5 drops wintergreen essential oil
Directions
Combine all oils.
Create your own personal sauna by adding several drops of this blend to a large bowl of boiling water. Make a tent over your head with a soft towel, then lean over the bowl and inhale.
Benefits
Refreshing
Oily Skin Facial Mask
This natural facial mask relies on thel astringency of essential oils to help dissolve excess oil. Cornmeal provides a gentle buffing action to remove dead skin cells, while ground almonds provide a non-drying, soap-free cleansing action.
Ingredients
3 tablespoons white cornmeal
3 tablespoons freshly ground raw almond meal
10 drops lavender essential oil
5 drops bergamot essential oil
3 drops clary sage essential oil
2 to 3 tablespoons water
Directions
Mix corn and almond meal with essential oils. Gradually add water until a creamy paste forms.
Apply to skin in gentle, circular buffing motion. Allow to dry and tighten. Rinse with lukewarm water, then pat dry.
Benefits
Energizing, Refreshing
Outdoor Lotion
Ingredients
1 cup sweet almond oil or apricot kernel oil
3/4 ounce beeswax
1 cup lukewarm water-based liquid like green tea, hydrosol, rainwater or aloe juice
28 drops lemon eucalyptus essential oil
6 drops lavender essential oil
4 drops grapefruit essential oil
2 drops geranium essential oil
Directions
Add beeswax to oil in a Pyrex cup or bowl. Place in a hot water bath. Heat until melted. Allow the mixture to cool.
Place the water-based liquid in a blender. When the temperatures of the oil and water are comparable, turn on the blender and add the oil in a thin stream. Blend until a cream develops. Blend in the essential oils and store in a jar in the refrigerator.
We Suggest
A pinch of Sodium Borate (Borax) dissolved in the water prior to blending will help emulsify the mixture and prevent separation.
Benefits
Energizing, Refreshing
Patio Spray
Ingredients
1 teaspoon grain alcohol or 1 teaspoon high-proof vodka
20 drops lemon eucalyptus essential oil
10 drops citronella essential oil
5 drops grapefruit essential oil
5 drops cedarwood or 5 drops Texas cedarwood
4 ounces distilled water
Directions
Place alcohol in a spray-mister bottle. Add the essential oils and shake. Add water, cap and mist the atmosphere around your outdoor activities.
Always shake well before use. Avoid spraying the skin, clothing or garden plants.
Benefits
Refreshing
Purification
Combat body aches, chills and congestion with a soak in this preventative eucalyptus and tea tree blend. These powerful anti-microbial oils will cleanse and open breathing.
Ingredients
14 drops eucalyptus essential oil
8 drops tea tree essential oil
14 drops grapefruit essential oil
dead sea salt
Directions
We Suggest
Sprinkle 1 or 2 tablespoons of finely ground rolled oats into the bath, along with this blend, to soften the skin and relieve irritation and itchiness.
Benefits
Refreshing
Purifying Toilet Bowl Cleanser
Utilize the cleaning benefits of essential oils AND enjoy a pure aromatherapy experience.
Ingredients
18 ounces water
1/4 cup liquid castile soap
4 drops lavender essential oil
4 drops tea tree
4 drops lemon essential oil
Directions
Combine all ingredients in a 22-ounce spray bottle. Spray toilet bowl, scrub with brush, and flush.
Benefits
Energizing, Refreshing
Purifying Tub Scrub Powder
Natural baking soda and essential oils combine to create a simple yet powerful cleansing and disinfecting scrub for your tub.
Ingredients
1 cup baking soda
24 drops tea tree essential oil
24 drops grapefruit essential oil
Directions
Thoroughly mix baking soda and essential oils. Rinse tub, sprinkle on powder, and scrub with brush. Rinse.
Benefits
Refreshing
Refreshing & Deodorizing Liquid Shower Soap
Wash away the sweat and grime of your workout with this fresh and natural liquid aromatherapy soap.
Ingredients
1 bottle (8 ounces) of unscented liquid soap (oil-based, castile-type)
1/4 teaspoon coriander essential oil
12 drops tangerine essential oil
12 drops peppermint essential oil
Directions
Add oils to liquid soap, shake bottle and use in shower.
Benefits
Refreshing, Relaxing
Skin Renewal Blend
Lavender and clary sage nourish and tone the skin. Lemon is cleansing and brightening. This blend is appropriate for all skin types and ages.
Ingredients
24 drops lavender essential oil
6 drops clary sage essential oil
6 drops lemon essential oil
dead sea salt
Directions
We Suggest
Pour in a cup of organic whole milk to provide luxurious skin-nourishing properties.
Toss in 1 or 2 bags of tea to increase the skin-toning effects of your bath.
Benefits
Refreshing
Soothing Muscle Rub
In aromatherapy, pine is used in saunas, steam baths and massage blends for sore muscles. The natural evergreen aroma of pine essential oil is a sweet alternative to harshly medicinal pharmaceutical preparations. Here's a recipe that combines the oils of several plants used to add therapeutic fragrance to steams and saunas.
Ingredients
30 drops pine essential oil
30 drops juniper berry essential oil
30 drops peppermint essential oil
10 drops lemon essential oil
Directions
Combine oils.
To make a penetrating massage oil for overworked muscles, dilute 12 drops of this concentrated blend in 3 ounces of vegetable oil (such as sweet almond).
This fragrant muscle rub is especially nice the day after a strenuous workout when muscles may be tight and sore.
We Suggest
Never apply concentrated essential oil blends directly to skin without diluting them first; irritation may develop.
Benefits
Refreshing
Spring Fresh Room Spray
Aromatherapists value lemongrass for its ability to both calm and revitalize, to relieve tension, invigorate, and inspire. The tall tropical grass fills this tall order beautifully.
Ingredients
4 drops lemongrass
8 drops fir needle essential oil
2 drops lemon essential oil
2 drops citronella essential oil
2 ounces distilled water
Directions
Add the oils to the distilled water and pour into spritzer bottle. This delightfully scented blend refreshes rooms and closets, filling your home with the scent of spring.
Benefits
Refreshing
Summertime Room Spray
This blend will freshen your house with the aroma of a perfect summer day. It combines bergamot with other oils that are evocative of summertime.
Ingredients
4 ounces water
Small spray bottle
8 drops bergamot essential oil
8 drops lavender essential oil
Directions
Combine oils and water in spray bottle. Shake well and liberally mist room air throughout your home
Benefits
Energizing, Refreshing
Tea Tree Travel Mist
Ingredients
1 teaspoon grain alcohol, rubbing alcohol or high-proof vodka
10 drops tea tree essential oil
7 drops peppermint essential oil
10 drops tangerine essential oil
4 ounces distilled water
Directions
Place alcohol in a spray mister bottle. Add the essential oils and shake. Add water, cap and mist the atmosphere around your outdoor activities. Always shake well before use. Avoid spraying eyes and sensitive areas.
Benefits
Refreshing
Relaxing
Absolute Bliss
This combination of deeply relaxing lavender and euphoric coriander and bergamot will help calm the body while it elevates your spirit. Perfect after a strenuous or emotionally charged day.
Ingredients
22 drops lavender essential oil
6 drops coriander essential oil
6 drops bergamot essential oil
2 drops patchouli essential oil
3/4 cup Dead Sea salt
Directions
Add 1 or 2 teaspoons of Aura Cacia skin care oils including jojoba, sweet almond and grapeseed for extra skin-nourishing benefits.
Benefits
Relaxing
Back and Muscle Formula
Ingredients
10 drops German Chamomile Precious Essential?
3 drops wintergreen essential oil
1 drop clove bud essential oil
3 drops lavender essential oil
Directions
Mix oils in the palm of your hand and then apply to sore muscles.
Benefits
Relaxing
Bath Soak for Sore Muscles
Ingredients
20 drops German Chamomile Precious Essential?
10 drops Roman Chamomile Precious Essential?
5 drops lavender essential oil
1 drop clary sage essential oil
Directions
Blend together and add to hot bath water.
Note that Precious Essentials are pre-blended in jojoba, so there is no need for an additional carrier oil.
Benefits
Relaxing
Calming Foot Powder
Ingredients
1/4 cup arrowroot powder
1/4 cup cornstarch
10 drops lavender essential oil
5 drops sandalwood essential oil
5 drops clary sage essential oil
Directions
Benefits
Relaxing
Calming Mist Spray
Ingredients
4 ounces water
20 drops lavender essential oil
20 drops geranium essential oil
20 drops clary sage essential oil
Directions
Mix in a spray bottle.
Benefits
Relaxing
Commuter's Aromatherapy Spritzer
This recipe contains oils that are both relaxing and refreshing, thereby producing an overall balancing benefit that will serve to diffuse stress and road rage but also gently energize during a long drive.
Ingredients
2 ounces distilled water
6 drops lavender essential oil
2 drops clary sage essential oil
2 drops geranium essential oil
2 drops peppermint essential oil
Directions
Combine all ingredients in a spray bottle. Shake the mixture vigorously before applying 2 to 3 sprays to the interior of your car.
Benefits
Relaxing
Ear Trouble
Ingredients
9 drops German Chamomile Precious Essential?
1 drop lavender essential oil
Directions
Benefits
Relaxing
Foot and Muscle Blend
Ingredients
2 ounces unscented massage blend
6 drops sweet orange essential oil
3 drops clove essential oil
3 drops wintergreen essential oil
6 drops peppermint essential oil
Directions
We Suggest
For the feet, try blending in Aura Cacia unscented body polish. It?s a wonderful foot massage!
Benefits
Relaxing
Grey Mood Bath Salts
A relaxing bath blend of sea salt and herbs
Ingredients
1 cup Frontier Grey Sea Salt
1 teaspoon basil
1 teaspoon rosemary
1 teaspoon sage
1 teaspoon thyme
1 tablespoon lavender flowers
1 tablespoon baking soda
Directions
Combine all ingredients in a plastic bag or glass jar. (If storing for longer than a few days, place in glass.) Mix well.
Use 1/2 cup of the mixture for each warm bath.
We Suggest
Place the mix into a mesh bag or coffee filter in order to keep herbs together for easy removal after bath.
Benefits
Relaxing
Lavender Skin-Soother Calming Body Mist
Ingredients
1 teaspoon plain vinegar or 1 teaspoon herb-infused vinegar (lavender, rose, peppermint, etc.)
18 drops lavender essential oil
6 drops geranium essential oil
3 drops rose otto essential oil or 3 drops rose absolute essential oil
4 ounces water or 4 ounces water-based liquid, such as green tea, hydrosol or aloe juice
Directions
Place vinegar in a spray mister bottle. Add the essential oils and shake. Add water, cap and mist clothes and skin.
Always shake well before use. Avoid eyes and sensitive areas.
Benefits
Relaxing
Luxurious Foot Soak
Ingredients
2 tablespoons sea salt
1 tablespoon Epsom salts
1 tablespoon sodium bicarbonate or baking soda
1 tablespoon French white clay powder
8 drops lavender essential oil
4 drops rose essential oil
4 drops cedarwood essential oil
2 drops patchouli essential oil
Directions
Combine dry ingredients. Add essential oils and mix thoroughly. Dissolve the mixture in two gallons of hot water, making sure the oils are dispersed.
Benefits
Relaxing
Muscle & Joint Soothing Aromatherapy Massage Oil
Create this penetrating massage blend to soothe and restore sore, tired muscles after a long, hard day or vigorous workout.
Ingredients
2 tablespoons sweet almond
1 tablespoon grapeseed or jojoba oil
3 drops lavender essential oil
3 drops peppermint essential oil
3 drops eucalyptus essential oil
Directions
Combine all ingredients and mix well. Massage oil into muscles.
Use more to create slippery glide and less to create friction and warmth.
Benefits
Refreshing, Relaxing
Patchouli Blend
This simple blend makes a relaxing, sensual and richly fragrant aroma for massage or bath.
Ingredients
4 drops rose essential oil
8 drops sandalwood essential oil
5 drops patchouli essential oil
Directions
Add the oils directly to a warm bubble bath, or dilute them with 1 to 2 tablespoons of a vegetable carrier oil -- such as jojoba or sweet almond -- for a luxurious massage.
Benefits
Relaxing
Refreshing & Deodorizing Liquid Shower Soap
Wash away the sweat and grime of your workout with this fresh and natural liquid aromatherapy soap.
Ingredients
1 bottle (8 ounces) of unscented liquid soap (oil-based, castile-type)
1/4 teaspoon coriander essential oil
12 drops tangerine essential oil
12 drops peppermint essential oil
Directions
Add oils to liquid soap, shake bottle and use in shower.
Benefits
Refreshing, Relaxing
Refreshing and Relaxing Ylang Citrus Diffusion
The addition of mandarin and bergamot oils adds freshness to the heavy floral aroma of ylang.
Ingredients
15 drops ylang ylang essential oil
45 drops mandarin orange essential oil
40 drops bergamot essential oil
Directions
Combine oils.
Mix 6 drops of this relaxing blend with 1 ounce of water and diffuse the mixture in an aromatherapy lamp.
Benefits
Relaxing
Relaxing Bath Soak
Ingredients
20 drops Rose Absolute Precious Essential?
5 drops lavender essential oil
1 drop sandalwood essential oil or patchouli essential oil
5 drops jasmine absolute precious essential oil
Directions
Blend together all ingredients and add to hot bath water.
Remember that the rose and the jasmine are pre-blended in jojoba, so there is no need for an additional carrier.
Benefits
Relaxing
Relaxing Lavender Spa Bath
Ingredients
1 tablespoon sea salt
1 tablespoon Epsom salt
1 tablespoon ground oats
27 drops lavender essential oil
Directions
Mix ingredients and add to hot bath.
Benefits
Relaxing
Restoring Rose Facial
Ingredients
5 drops rose otto essential oil or rose absolute essential oil
Directions
Apply to the palm of the hand. With the fingers from the other hand, apply directly to the face, neck and décolletage.
Apply a freshly steamed washcloth to the face and keep it there as long as possible.
Repeat as often as possible.
Benefits
Relaxing
Rose and Lavender Facial Cream
In aromatherapy, rose oil inspires emotional calm and stability without sedative effects. The aroma is powerful and comforting. Its physical actions are mildly astringent and balancing. Rose and lavender facial cream is excellent for sensitive combination skin. Dabbed onto a freshly washed face, this cream is a fragrant, toning emollient.
Ingredients
1/2 ounce beeswax
4 ounces jojoba oil
3 ounces distilled water
20 drops rose absolute or rose otto essential oil
15 drops lavender essential oil
Directions
Melt the wax in the jojoba oil using a double boiler. Add the distilled water in a thin stream while vigorously beating the mixture with a wire whisk. Remove from heat and continue whisking the oil while adding the essential oils, drop by drop.
We Suggest
Make a tea of fresh rose petals and lavender flowers, and use this in place of the distilled water.
Benefits
Relaxing
Shampoo for Dry Scalp
Ingredients
2 ounces unscented shampoo
20 drops lavender essential oil
10 drops carrot seed essential oil
5 drops rosemary essential oil
5 drops sandalwood essential oil
5 drops palmarosa essential oil
Directions
Combine all ingredients in a squirt bottle (for convenience).
Benefits
Relaxing
Simple Mental Soother
Ingredients
5 drops Rose Otto Precious Essential?
5 drops Jasmine Precious Essential?
2 drops lavender essential oil
1 drop sandalwood essential oil
1 drop vanilla essential oil
1 drop neroli essential oil
Directions
We Suggest
The above formulas also works wonders as a body massage using Aura Cacia?s Unscented Massage Cream or as a foot and leg massage using the Aura Cacia Unscented Body Polish.
If you don?t like messing around with lots of different oils, try using Aura Cacia?s Pep Talk or Grey Matter Batter with a carrier oil, or one or both of the Precious Essentials used in this recipe.
Benefits
Relaxing
Soothing Bath Blend
When the stress and strain of a hectic day weigh heavily on your mind and body, try this uplifting yet soothing citrus-scented bath.
Ingredients
3 tablespoons sea salt
2 tablespoons sodium bicarbonate or 2 tablespoons baking soda
1 tablespoon borax
9 drops tangerine essential oil
7 drops lavender essential oil
2 drops chamomile essential oil
Directions
Benefits
Relaxing
Soothing Skin Spray
Ingredients
2 ounces distilled water
20 drops lavender essential oil
10 drops palmarosa essential oil
5 drops sandalwood essential oil
10 drops Rose Absolute Precious Essential?
Directions
Combine oils and water in a spray bottle.
Benefits
Relaxing
Sports Massage Blend
Ingredients
30 dash German Chamomile Precious Essential?
10 drops Roman Chamomile Precious Essential?
6 drops lavender essential oil
1 drop clove essential oil
1 drop allspice essential oil
4 drops wintergreen essential oil
Directions
Combine all ingredients. Massage into sore, tired muscles.
Benefits
Relaxing
Suncare Mist
Painfully sunburned skin will benefit from a soothing, fragrant mist of distilled water, aloe and lavender oil. A few drops of peppermint and spearmint oil will provide a cooling effect.
Ingredients
3 ounces distilled water
1 ounce aloe gel or extract
18 drops lavender essential oil
4 drops peppermint essential oil
2 drops spearmint essential oil
Directions
Pour ingredients into a spray mister bottle. Essential oils and water will separate, so shake the bottle vigorously before misting lightly over sunburned skin. To increase the cooling effect, store bottle in refrigerator.
Benefits
Relaxing
Warming After-Workout Massage Oil
Tired, sore muscles need the soothing touch of a therapeutic massage. Increase the benefits and the enjoyment of your after-workout rubdown with this soothing & relaxing massage blend.
Ingredients
2 tablespoons sweet almond or apricot kernel oil
1 tablespoon jojoba or grapeseed oil
3 drops juniper berry essential oil
3 drops lavandin essential oil
3 drops peppermint essential oil
Directions
Mix oils and use as a massage oil after workout.
Benefits
Relaxing
Romantic
Chocolove Formula
Ingredients
20 drops Vanilla Precious Essential?
1 to 2 drops sweet orange essential oil
1 drop cardamom essential oil
2 to 3 drops rose otto precious essential oil
Directions
Benefits
Romantic
Erotic Blend
Ingredients
40 drops Vanilla Precious Essential?
2 to 4 drops sweet orange essential oil
2 drops cardamom essential oil
10 drops rose absolute essential oil
Directions
Combine oils.
You can either add this to an ounce of base or you can melt a little cocoa butter (20 seconds in a microwave), add the oil blend, and then rub that on your lovers body.
Benefits
Romantic
Lusty Love Massage Formula
Ingredients
30 drops Rose Otto Precious Essential?
10 drops vanilla precious essential oil
5 drops sandalwood essential oil
2 tablespoons unscented massage cream
Directions
Combine all ingredients. Use liberally for massage.
Benefits
Romantic
Rose & Geranium Moisturizing Cream
Rose and geranium are especially well suited for dry and aged skin.
Ingredients
1/2 ounce beeswax
4 ounces sweet almond oil
3 ounces water
6 drops rose otto or absolute oil
21 drops geranium
12 drops patchouli essential oil
Directions
Melt the wax and the almond oil in a double boiler. Allow to cool to lukewarm temperature, then add the essential oils.
Warm the water slightly and place in blender. Add the wax/almond oil/essential oil mixture to the water in a slow and steady stream. Blend until a creamy emulsion forms.
Store in the refrigerator.
Benefits
Romantic
Rose Perfume
This a simple recipe for a rose perfume. Although it calls for rose oil only, some of the drops can be replaced with other essential oils to create a distinctive personal essence.
Ingredients
3 ounces vodka
30 drops rose absolute or rose otto essential oil
small funnel
coffee filters
empty perfume or cologne bottle
Directions
Add the oil to the vodka. Shake gently and allow the mixture to age for 2 to 3 weeks. This aging allows the alcohol to extract the aromatic constituents of the oil that are only partially soluble in the alcohol. You may notice globules of the undissolved constituents floating around in the mixture ? this is normal.
After aging the mixture, chill it briefly and filter it using the funnel and a coffee filter. Let the mixture settle. If any additional globules form, chill and filter again. Repeat this process until all traces of undissolved oil are removed. At this point, your personal essence is ready to use.
Benefits
Romantic
Sensual Blend
Exotic ylang ylang, rich sandalwood and the floral nuances of mandarin combine to awaken the sensual self.
Ingredients
12 drops ylang ylang essential oil
12 drops sandalwood or cedarwood essential oil
12 drops mandarin orange essential oil
dead sea salt
Directions
We Suggest
Strew some scented rose petals over the surface of your bath.
Benefits
Romantic
Sensual Vanilla Massage
Ingredients
1/4 cup Aura Cacia Cocoa Butter
20 drops Vanilla Precious Essential?
2 drops cardamom essential oil
2 drops sweet orange essential oil
Directions
Combine all ingredients. Use for massage.
We Suggest
Options:
For men - consider adding a drop of two or clove essential oil.
For women - consider adding a drop or two or rose otto essential oil.
Benefits
Romantic
Spicy Seduction
Ingredients
3 drops Vanilla Precious Essential?
2 drops rose precious essential oil
1 drop clove essential oil
2 tablespoons unscented massage cream
Directions
Combine oils into cream. Use liberally for massage.
Benefits
Romantic
Subtle Seduction Formula
Ingredients
1 drop Jasmine Precious Essential?
2 drops Vanilla Precious Essential?
1 drop patchouli essential oil (optional)
2 tablespoons unscented massage cream
Directions
Combine oils with cream. Heat if desired. Use liberally for massage.
Benefits
Romantic
Soothing
Milk & Oat Skin Soothing Solution
This homemade paste soothes itchy, irritated skin.
Ingredients
1 package Organic Milk & Oat Bath with Lavender
1 teaspoon grapeseed oil
1/4 cup water
Directions
Combine ingredients to form a creamy paste. If mix is too dry, add a bit more water. Smooth a thin layer over red, bumpy or irritated skin, and leave in place for 10 to 15 minutes. Rinse with lukewarm water.
We Suggest
Consider just adding water to the Milk & Oat Bath packet and mixing right in the packaging -- a great option for hikers and campers!
Benefits
Soothing