Making your own aromatherapy is as easy as making essential oils from fresh flowers, herbs or citrus fruits. To be safe, it should be noted that essential oils must always be diluted, which are usually applied to the skin in ointment or oil. Do not eat these these essential oils.
You can make a mixture with flowers or citrus or herbs. True essential oil is usually one scent. If you are a gardener and for example you have many roses, you can plant them in fresh cut in the middle of the morning and put them in essential oil using these steps. Some suitable flowers, but not all inclusive, are roses, geraniums, lilacs, hyacinths, jasmines, lilacs, violets, roses, orange lilies or lilies of the valley.
orange peel, lime peel, grapefruit peel, lemon peel. Flavors include cinnamon bark, cloves, and vanilla bean. Herbs include basil, borage, chamomile, ginger, lemon, rosemary and thyme. Others may be used. This is a short list.
they are the bases for floral essential oils, and can be adapted to herbal and aromatic and citrus oils.
For essential floral oils, take a cup of cold-pressed sweet almond oil and 2 to 3 cups full of freshly chopped almonds. the flowers bloom in the morning. Make sure they are not treated with pesticides, if you don’t have a garden, you can buy them from special natural health food and garden shops .
Put the oil in a canning jar in a glass and beat the flowers a little with a ball and hair. Add the flowers to the oil and cap the jar and shake, this will further shrink the flowers. Leave the jar at a fairly warm temperature. Between 68 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit. A week, shake every 24 hours.
Place the container in a dark place and allow it to age for another 1 to 2 weeks. The flower absorbs the essential oil by lowering it. Throw it out and shake it again. Strain the oil through a fine mesh cloth. Collecting in a bag, squeeze out the essence and discard the pulp and the glass. Transfer the oil to a brown glass bottle and keep it airtight. Store in a cool, dark place. These will be 12 to 18 moths out of the sun at temperatures cooler than 75 degrees F.
To do the same for the herbal essential oils, take a cup of cold pressed sweet almond oil and 1 cup of fresh herbs, well packed in a measuring cup. Then, using the same techniques, you can make herbal essential oils.
Flavorings can be made with a cup of cold-pressed lemon, sweet almond oil, and 1 cup of lemon peel cut into
