Today we're going to make a diffuser
blend. Did you know that diffusing your
essential oils can actually uplift and
energize you and help blow away that
depression and sadness. This is really a
great benefit to essential oils. So today
we're going to look at creating up in
for that now I've chosen the recipe out
of my book of Organic Beauty with Essential Oil and I decided I wanted to go
with something a little more relaxing so
I've chosen several oils I think that
would enhance that mood. Now we have so many to choose from and that's why you
want to be sure and use your perfume
strips that you've been creating in the
activity Now Smell This. And you want to
put those together and just wave them
under your nostrils and take a nice deep
breath and just see if you like them.
Again we have a lot of bowls to choose
from so you want to get your coffee
beans out and just again clear your
palate and smell those as your
trying out different oils for your blend.
So we want to have our glass bowl to do
our blending in we use a blaster rod to
stir it and oils.
We're going to need a glass five mill
bottle or something to hold your
diffuser blend in. This also comes with a
cap and a reducer cap for us I also
think that it's a good idea to either
use a funnel or a pipette to
transfer your essential oil in into your
bottle. Okay so now I'm going to make a
relaxing diffuser blend so I'm going to
use a lemon essential oil, lavender
essential oil and sandalwood. Now in
these three I am again blending by note.
So that means that I'm using a top note
which is lemon the lavender is my middle
note. Just very calming and sedated and then
the sandalwood which is also very
meditative and very calming and offers
that very soothing essence to the blend. So when we start our blend we want to
take our essential oils and we're going to
add the space for the oil. First now in this
particular recipe calls for quite a few
drops so we have the 30 drops 30 drops
and then we have 20 drops here so
actually it's about 80 to 100 drops is
what you can fit in a 5 mil. But for this
particular exercise we're just going to
use a few of each just to make sure we
like this before we commit to that much
essential oil. So let's start with the
sandalwood and I'm going to use 5 drops
and I don't think it's coming out of
here so let me see if I can I don't
think it's coming out so in this case
when you have a problem with it not
coming out of the reducer cap you might
need to take it off and use your pipette.
I do see trying to come out a little bit
here so 1 2 3 4 ok so now I've added the
sandalwood and I'm going to add the
lavender next in this case I'm going to
be using about 10 drops of lavender. One, 
oh that came out way faster did you see
that oh my goodness. So I think we got plenty of drops in
here that was like 10 drops altogether
and then the lemon again. I'm going to be
adding even more of the lavender because
this is the top note so we add more top
notes so I'm going to add about 15 drops
of this one 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15. Okay
now I'm going to use my stir rod to mix
this up make sure I like it. It's very
citrusy and you just have a little bit
of hint of the lavender which is nice
the lemon really smoothes it out and
then you have the sandalwood as a base
note so that's nice. Okay so what I'm going to use here is I
have a choice I can use my pipette to
transfer it or I'll use my funnel. So I'm
actually just going to pour it right
into the bottle here and if you just
want to make sure that it has completely
blended nicely. You're going to put your
cap on and then you're just going to
shake it up now what you'll do with this
is of course you're going to need to
make a label and write your product name
on it as well as you're going to get
your recipe report form in your workbook.
I believe that's we say one page 65. Let's take a look at them see starting
at page 92 you have your recipe report
form so you'll fill that in you want to
make notes of how many drops of bleach
all you're using and what your intention
was for that blend and then all you need
to do is depending on the type of
diffuser you have you would add it
directly into your diffuser now in this
case I'm using an ultrasonic one. That
has a water base in there. So I'm just
going to add about 10 to 12 props
directly into the diffuser and let that
just fill up the space with this
wonderful fragrance. And now if you want
to have more information and details on
how to use and make create your own
diffuser at home you want to take a look
at page 171 in your textbook.
