Essential Oils

When working on making soap, I put some essential oils in.  It is an essential part of my soap making products.  It is my signature.  I love being an essential oils mad scientist.  I like to blend various essential oils together as the soap base is still hot.  The end results are not always smell the roses but I tried to mix some essential oils together.  I even keep a essential oils journal where I put the essential oils recipies that I try.

Of course, there are many essential oils mixes that I have tried just once.  There is one that I had tried constantly.  That blend is for the soap that I give.  My intention behind that mix: immunity and avoiding infections.  I won't give the ratio of each essential oil, I will leave that to those who want to try.  Each person have a personal power of scent.  Some are more scent sensitive and other less.  Here is the essential oils I like to put together:
Eucalyptus essential oil
Mandarin or Orange (I think it is sweet orange) essential oil
Lavendar essential oil

It makes me think that each essential oil have it's own smell.  Some are stronger than other.  It is the case with the Eucalyptus one.  So, when it is the case, less is okay.  Each essential oils can be tweaked considering their smells.  There is also some essential oils that are more liquid than other.  What does I mean by that?  They seems to go faster when the drops of essential oils fall from the bottle.  So, it is a good idea to count the drops and follow the quickness of the drop fall.  There are the bezoin essential oil that must be heated.  Just put the benzoin essential oil botthe in some hot water for a few minutes (I think 5 minutes are okay).  The benzoin essential oil is a bit siruppy in it's unheated state.  When heated, it flow a bit more easily.

I learlend a lot while working with essential oil.  One thing that stay constant: it is fun to mix various essential oils and go for an objective like the above immunity boost I created just above.  I am thinking of creatting my mix of essential oils for bug repellant.  For sure, the immunity boost is the one I use the most.  I want to use the bug reppelant soaps for my summer soaps.  It is an experimentation worth to try for this summer.