Aromatic Gifts for the Winter Holiday Season

Relaxing Bath Salts with a Holiday Flair

Ingredients:

• 2 cups epsom salts
• 1/2 cup baking soda
• 1/4 cup sea salt or any kind of natural salt
• 30 drops of  Swiss stone pine essential oil
• 20 drops of white fir essential oil
• 10 drops of frankincense  or allspice essential oil

Instructions:

1. Mix all ingredients in a medium size bowl.
2. Store in an air-tight jar and use 1/4 cup per bath.

Inspiring Diffuser Blends

Warm up your home with the aroma of baking cookies and ginger breads.  Using therapeutic essential oils not only smells wonderful, it adds the benefit of healing properties to purify the air, relax the emotions, and relieve stress.  And a great benefit--germs, bacteria, even viruses are neutralized in your home.

Gingerbread Blend

Mix together in a 5 ml bottle:  

1 ml allspice essential oil

1 ml ginger CO2 extract

1 ml cassia bark essential oil

2 ml blood orange essential oil

Conifer Blend

Mix together in a 5 ml bottle:  

1 ml  juniper berry essential oil

1 ml balsam fir essential oil

1 ml blue spruce essential oil

2 ml Swiss stone pine essential oil

Christmas Candy Blend

Mix together in a 5 ml bottle:  

1 ml peppermint essential oil

1 ml clove essential oil

1 ml nutmeg essential oil

2 ml  green mandarin essential oil

2 drops vanilla bourbon 

Create Your Own Spa Gifts

Everyone appreciates hand made gifts!  Give the gift of relaxation and regeneration, create your own bath salts, soaps, natural perfumes, essential oil blends, body oils, cremes, and sprays.  

Simple Hydrosols come in 100 ml violet glass bottles, with optional fine sprayer tops.  They make wonderful bases for room sprays, or skin toners.

Try adding 2 drops of frankincense and 3 drops of myrrh to a 100 ml bottle of sandalwood hydrosol.

A bottle of pure rose hydrosol makes a fine gift for anyone!  It needs nothing added, and makes a rosy spray for facial skin.

Blue sage hydrosol is a smokeless smudge that brings a beautiful clearing energy into any room or space.  

Holiday Body Oil Blend

Into a 100 ml bottle, combine:

12 drops piñon pine essential oil

8 drops neroli or petitgrain sur fleurs essential oil

3 drops bergamot essential oil

Use your imagination--there are so many possible ways to  make wonderful aromatic gifts!  

With Love and Inspiration, 

Kathryn