Essential Oil Recipe Blog

Essential oil recipes for pagan festival candles

When you are making candles for your pagan festivals you can choose the colours and scents to suit your own personal preferences for the festival, but here are a few ideas to get you started. I have stated the dates for northern and southern hemisphere festivals.

Yule (Dec 21st / June 21st): Dark red and dark green candles scented with frankincense oil, rosemary oil, cedarwood oil or rosemary oil.

Imbolc (Feb 2nd/ August 1st): White candles scented with vanilla oil or basil oil.

Ostara (March 23rd/ september 23rd): Light green candles scented with jasmine oil, rose oil or violet oil.

Beltane (May 1st/October 31st): Dark green candles scented with frankincense oil, almond oil or lilac oil.

Litha (June 21st/December 21st): Red candles scented with chamomile oil, lavender oil or thyme oil.

Lammas (August 1st/February2nd): Yellow candles scented with frankincense oil.

Mabon (September 23rd/march 23rd): Brown or cinnamon scented with myrrh or pine oil.

Samhein (October 31st/ May 1st): Orange candles scented with patchouli oil.

These are only guidelines, obviously if the festival is celebrated with other scents or colours in your tradition then you can swap and change. It is after all your intent that matters in these things.

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Pre-bath oil essential oil recipe

Personally I don’t like rubbing oil on my skin after a bath, even though when I do it does my skin good. I prefer to apply the oil before I step into a warm bath and allow the aroma the envelop me from there, and it still helps moisturise my skin.This only works in the bath, the shower doesn’t allow the aromatherapy properties to develop fully.

To make your own pre bath oil take thirty mls of a base oil, such as peach kernal oil or wheatgerm oil. Both are very nourishing. To this add one or two drops each of carrot oil and evening primrose oil to help nourish the skin further. To this base you add your perfume esential oils, in a blend to suit your mood,

Vitalising : 2 drops ginger oil, 5 drops lemongrass oil, 3 drops peppermint oil.

Restful: 5  drops sandalwood oil, 3 drops Roman chamomile oil, 2 drops valerian oil. ( Lavender oil is good for helping calm you down, I personally don’t like the smell.)

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Essential oil recipes for mouth care

Essential oils feature in many commercial mouthwashes, and flavour most commercial toothpastes so there is no reason that you cannot duplicate their actions at home: only without adding the toxic chemicals used as preservatives and colourings in most of them.

Toothpaste

• 6 teaspoons baking soda
• large pinch of salt
• 4 teaspoons glycerin
• 15 drops of peppermint oil

Mix the ingredients together to a toothpaste consistency and keep in a small tupperware type container.

If you don’t like the peppermint flavoiur a good alternative is cinnamon oil, with natural breath freshening and antibacterial properties.

For a super teeth whitening recipe mix hydrogen peroxide with baking soda.

Mouthwash

Make some fresh rosemary infusion by steeping fresh or dried rosemary leaves in boiling water for ten minutes. Strain. Add 10-12 drops of your chosen essential oil per cup of liquid. You can sweeten this mix with glycerin if you wish. Some people add vodka which acts as a preservative but I prefer not to. My children use this.

Suitable essential oils are peppermint oil, cinnamon oil and lemon oil. Cinnamon oil is particularly effective if bad breath is a problem.

If the taste is too strong just dilute it with water.

For a super strong rinse add a few drops of essential oil to suitably diluted hydrogen peroxide.

Toothache

The classic essential oil for toothache is clove oil dabbed on directly with a cotton bud. Don’t use this long term though because it will cause damage to the gums.

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Essential oil recipe for cleaning the kitchen

We all want to minimise the use of toxic chemicals around our families, but very often the kitchen is the one place we still use them. We are torn between the modern phobia about germs, and the modern want for organic alternatives. Essential oils can be used in many ways to help us in our quest for a clean kitchen without using toxic chemicals.

Eucalyptus oil

Eucalyptus oil is a natural antiseptic, with antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal properties. You can use it to clean the kitchen in two ways. On a major clean up half fill the sink with warm water and add a half cup of white vinegar and a few drops of eucalyptus oil. Use this water to wipe down all your surfaces. The Eucalyptus cleans marks off easily, and acts as an antiseptic as you go.

Any tough marks can be dealt with by leaving a damp patch over the mark and coming back to it in a few minutes. The Eucalyptus oil will strip most marks from your work surfaces, cupbaords and cooker very easily. If you have a particularly tough spot use the oil neat.

The second way of using the oil is to take a spray bottle and fill it with water. Add few drops of eucalyptus oil and shake. Keep the bottle handy and just shake, spray and wipe when you wipe down your work space.

The smell

I like the fresh smell of eucalyptus oil, but if you find it overpowering try lemon oil or lavender oil.

Synergistic spray bottle blend

For the more adventurous try blending a combination of the following oils in your spray bottle. ( About eight drops per cup of water.)

Lavender oil, lemon oil, Eucalyptus oil, Bois de Rose, Lime, Pine, Thyme oil, Cinnamon oil and clove oil.

Experiment until you find a blend you like, or change it with the seasons.

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Essential oil recipe for acne face scrub

The woes of the teenage daughter continue, and now she wants a face scrub. Not having the money to go and buy her a top of the range model I made her one from the things i already had in the kitchen.

• 2 tablespoon ground almonds
• 1 teaspoon raw egg white
• 3 drops lemon oil
• 1 drop tea tree oil

Mix everything together in  a teacup and apply to a wet face with wet hands. Gently scrub the skin and then rinse with water.

I make two toners for my teeangers, both are based on witch hazel. I add a few drops of lemon oil for the girls and a few drops of cedar oil for the boys.

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