Aromatherapy Recipes and Tips Series - Aromahead Institute

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Aromatherapy
Recipes and Tips
Series
By Andrea Butje
Founder of Aromahead Institute
Introduction
Welcome to the Aromatherapy Recipes and Tips Series! As
promised, here are all the recipes and tips you’ve received by
email over the past 3 months compiled into a PDF for you to
easily access.
Similar to the emails, I’ll give you links to ingredients and
supplies in this PDF when it isn’t immediately obvious where
to get them. (To make sure the links work, it’s best to view
this PDF in Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat. If you don’t have
either of these programs, you can download Adobe Reader
for free by visiting http://get.adobe.com/reader and
clicking the yellow “Download” button.)
These are recipes I’ve been using in my own life and sharing
with friends for many years. I hope you love them as much as
I do!
Enjoy!
Andrea Butje
[email protected]
www.aromahead.com
Table of Contents
Aloe Avocado Face Wash 3
Blending by Aroma 4
Mouth Spa 5
Wake Me Up! Morning Shower Blend 6
Cleaning Wooden Cutting Boards 7
Green Mandarin, Calendula, & Vanilla Lip Balm 8
I’m Not Scared At Night Spray 9
Cold Sore Relief 10
Cold & Flu Sleep Remedy 11
Bond with Your Newborn Baby 12
Hand Scrub 13
Blending By Plant Parts 14
Connect with Aromahead Institute 16
Aloe Avocado Face Wash
• 1.5 oz (45 ml) aloe vera gel
• .5 oz (15 ml) avocado oil
• 4 drops Frankincense essential oil (Boswellia carterii)
• 2 oz flip top PET plastic bottle (also called disc top)
Simply put a little of the cleanser on a cotton round and use
it to wash your face, the same way you would soap. Rinse
with warm water when you’re done.
What’s so great about this cleanser?
1. It’s very gentle on your skin.
2. It’s the perfect substitute for soap, especially if you have
skin issues.
3. All three ingredients are healing for your skin.
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Blending by Aroma
On Aromatics International’s site, there’s a tool that lets you
Shop by Aroma. Go to AromaticsInternational.com and use
the picture below to locate the “aroma” tab.
Once you’re on the Shop by Aroma page, scroll down and
read the descriptions of each aroma. Put a checkmark next to
one or two that appeal to you and click “view oils.”
This is a great way to get to know the oils and learn about
those you aren’t familiar with. It’s also a wonderful blending
tool to help you choose oils for a specific purpose.
For example, if I want oils that are earthy and grounding to
help balance a crazy busy day, I might choose “Balsamic”
and “Piney.” (Try it and see what comes up. What a gorgeous
group of oils!)
Just so you know, some combinations don’t produce any
results. If this happens, just go back, reduce your search, and
try again.
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Mouth Spa
Three great tips for taking care of your teeth!
1. Put one drop of Tea Tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) on
your toothbrush after brushing your teeth at night. Tea Tree
is antimicrobial and will work hard to keep your toothbrush
clean by reducing microbes.
2. Use Helichrysum hydrosol for your mouthwash. After
I brush my teeth, I add a capful of the hydrosol into a small
glass of water and rinse my mouth. If you don’t like the taste
of Helichrysum hydrosol, mix it with some Peppermint
hydrosol (½ capful of each). That freshens it right up!
3. Make your own toothpaste. Simply mix ½ coconut oil and
½ baking soda in glass jar and dab a little of the mix on your
toothbrush. For extra freshness, you can add one drop of
Peppermint and one drop of Tea Tree essential oil to 1 oz of
the coconut/baking soda mix.
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Wake Me Up!
Morning Shower
After you get the hot water going,
place 1 drop each of the following
oils on the shower floor, in front of
where you stand. The combination
of the steam and the essential oil
is invigorating and revitalizing!
Wake Me Up!
Orange (Citrus sinensis)
White Spruce (Picea glauca)
Spike Lavender (Lavandula latifolia)
Of course, you can try any essential
oil you love. Just add 1-3 drops total
of essential oil to the shower floor
and enjoy the aroma!
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Cleaning Wooden
Cutting Boards
The only ingredients you need to clean your cutting boards
are salt and citrus. You can use the peel from a lemon or
grapefruit, or you can use the essential oil (or both!).
Lemon or Grapefruit Peel Approach
Cut the citrus in half and remove the fruit. Put a small
handful of salt on your cutting board and use the peel of the
fruit to rub it into the cutting board. Clean both sides of the
cutting board this way, and then rinse with hot water. Any
salt will work, but I like a slightly chunkier salt.
Lemon or Grapefruit Essential Oil Approach
Put a small handful of salt on your cutting board and add 3
drops of Lemon or Grapefruit essential oil (right on the
cutting board). Use a clean abrasive sponge to rub in the salt
and essential oil. Clean both sides of the cutting board this
way, using 3 drops on each side, and rinse with hot water.
Use Both!
We live in Florida and have abundant grapefruit and lemon
trees. I use the fruit peels, salt and essential oil!
Side effect: Not only will your cutting board smell great and
be free of unwanted bacteria—the whole kitchen will smell
amazing!
My only caution: Lemon and Grapefruit essential oils both
react to sunlight. Be sure not to get the essential oil on your
skin if you’re going to be in the sun (using cleaning gloves
resolves any concern). You can read more about this in your
Introduction to Essential Oils free class, in the Methods of
Use lesson, under the Safety Guidelines.
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Green Mandarin,
Calendula & Vanilla
Lip Balm
In your Introduction to Essential Oils class, we go over
how to make lip balm. You can find this again in the Making
Products lesson (#7 in the directions). This recipe is a great
variation on the lip balm recipe from the intro class.
The basic idea is to first melt the beeswax and the vanilla
jojoba, then add the calendula infused oil, and add the Green
Mandarin essential oil last. Let the blend stand and harden
for a few hours before use.
Measure the vanilla jojoba, calendula oil and beeswax by
weight. I use a small kitchen scale to measure weight.
• 1 oz of beeswax
• 1 oz of calendula oil
• 2 oz of vanilla jojoba wax (jojoba “oil” is actually a wax)
• 20 drops of Green Mandarin essential oil
This makes about 24 tubes if your tube is 5 ml (1/6 oz).
Melt the jojoba and beeswax in a double boiler (look back
in the class for a homemade double boiler technique). When
melted, add the calendula oil and stir with a glass stirring
rod, then take off the stove. Add the Green Mandarin oil, stir
and pour immediately into lip balm tubes. It helps to have a
lip balm tray to hold the tubes in place.
These make really great gifts and they only cost about
$2.00 each to make, if you buy the smallest size of all the
ingredients. When you buy larger sizes of the ingredients,
they cost even less to make.
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I’m Not Scared at
Night Spray
Do you know any children who get scared at night? This
recipe is a spray to help keep scary nighttime monsters away!
• 2 oz water in a 2 oz spray bottle
• 3 drops Sweet Orange (Citrus sinensis)
• 3 drops Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
Just add the essential oil drops to the water and shake before
use.
Leave by the bed and spray in the direction of the scary
monster! We all know monsters don’t like the smell of
essential oils! It works every time!
Be sure to make a fun and colorful label for the spray, and
enjoy a peaceful night’s sleep!
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