Easy Method for Creating Your Own Blends

You can be as scientific or intuitive as you want in blending essential oils for pleasure or therapy. Why bother with blending? Blends provide a more complex aromatic experience than single oils. You can blend heavier oils with lighter complementary oils so that the aroma subtly changes over time. All of the great perfumes are the result of blending essential oils.

The therapeutic effect of a blend can often be greater than single oils used sequentially. The combination of oils with complementary benefits can provide heighten synergistic effects. Carefully consider the properties of the oils you are using when blending for therapeutic effect, mixing two oils with opposite properties may result in neither oil having an effect with the properties canceling each other out. We have provided a few quick recommendations as to what oils work well together here.

So where to begin, this web site is a good start. Or check out one of our recommended books on aromatherapy. You can check here for a review of some of the best books in the field. First decide what you would like your new blend to be. What the the properties that you are looking for? From the resources discussed above list the oils that have these kinds of properties. Try to identify their aromatic note, base, middle or top. We have a page on identifying the note of an essential oil here. Carefully smell each oil, judge how you react to the oil. Rapidly sniffing several oils in a row is not a good idea, Inhaling the aroma from some fresh coffee beans will freshen your aromatic palette to an amazing degree. Remember this blend is for you and you are the expert. Many modern perfumes with have dozens or maybe hundreds of fragrances blended to achieve their unquie scent. However when blending at home and in small quantities and when blending for therapeutic effect fewer is better. Three or four oils are plenty.

Now you are ready to start. You will need several droppers and shots glasses or other small glass containers if you are planning to work with 3 oils get 3 containers if for oils 4 containers and so on. Another good reason to start with simple blends. Pick the oil that you like the best and want to be the dominate scent. Put ten drops into each of the three containers, then into one container add 2 drops to the first glass, mix it lightly and smell. Is the scent moving in the direction you want, if so add another drop and repeat. Generally, 4 to 6 drops should be plenty. At some point the blend will become less pleasant. Take notes, after adding each drop rate the blend in terms of the aromatic effect you are looking for on a scale of 1 to 10. When done with the second oil look back at your notes and pick the proportion that you liked the best. Add that amount to each of the other containers.

Take one of these containers with your favorite two oil blend and repeat the process for the next oil. Now rate the blend as a whole, is it what you were looking for? Maybe with the addition of the 3rd oil, the 2nd one was overwhelmed and another drop is indicated. Or perhaps it is time to start over and use the 2nd or 3rd oil as the primary.

Once you start, it is easier to do than read about. Just have fun with it remember to take notes so you can recreate that perfect scent again and again.

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