Today we're going to make a diffuser
blend. In this course you've been
learning about how the essential oils can
affect your mood and that is because the
essential oils are able to pass through the
blood-brain barrier into the Ala factory
by the Ala factory bulb into the lipid
region of the brain stimulating the
pineal in the pineal gland. So
because our nostrils and the sense of
smell is wired differently than the
other senses. This is a very powerful
thing that it's able to reach into us
and affect our moods and our emotions
stimulating hormones and triggering
things in us. The essential oils have
that ability to reach in and become a
vehicle for releasing repressed emotions
maybe when you wake up in the morning
you feel very tired and exhausted but
that sense of smell that aroma of coffee
stimulates you or even that maybe you
take a brisk walk in the woods and the
smell of spruce or pine or Cypress can
actually really you know invigorate you
and you can create that at home. That's
what we're going to do today. So I'm
going to choose three oils and I am
thinking lemon essential oil be my first
one but a top note Cypress will be my
middle to base note. And then I'm going
to also use frankincense essential okay
so those going to be my 3 oils. Now again
we want to make sure that we have all
our supplies on hand before we start and
when you're choosing your oils again
you're going to want to use your perfume
strips and you're going to want to put a
drop on each one wave them under your
nostrils and make sure that this is
something that you'll enjoy smelling. Now
we're going to use our glass bowl to mix
and blend our essential oils in. We are using our stir rod to blend their oils and
we're going to need a five mil glass
bottle to put our diffuser blend in and
store. Now I have two options I can use a pipette
to transfer miles to my bottle or it
could use a funnel. And we also have our
coffee beans on hand because after you
smell these oils and they all start to
smell alike you might want to just use
your coffee to just clear your palate.
And help you to just work on your old so
now we're going to start with our base
notes and that's going to be our frankincense. Now this particular recipe calls
for a lot of oil because we could fill
up this bottle which would hold about 80
to 100 drops so that's what we're going
on this would but for this exercise.
We're just going to use a few so I'm
going to start with two drops of
frankincense this come out pretty fast
one two and then I'm going to add my
middle note my Cypress. I'm going to add
five drops 1, 2, 3, they came out fast at
the end there. And sometimes if you're
using a lot of oils you might want to
use your pipette so you can count your
drops and have a little more control of
the flow. The last one I'm going to add
is lemon this is my top note some 18
drops three four five six seven eight
now we're going to use our glass stir
rod. Stir these up on check now. Doesn't
smell too bad. That's actually pretty
good and then we are going to transfer
this over using our pipette. We're going
to just take our blend and put it in our
bottle we're going to want to add a
label because I want to make sure we
know what it is. Because we don't want to
just have this floating around in our
medicine cabinet forgot for what we made
it for. So we're going to shake it up and
now it's ready to go so all we need to
do is just add a few drops into a
diffuser and that's all you need to do.
