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Aromatherapy recipes for you to try in your secret place.

Bring Spring Inside With Citrus Air Freshener

March 20, 2009 Create Your Own

When Spring is in the air, it makes you want to open the windows and let the clean, fresh air into your home. Now, you can have that fresh clean scent where and whenever you need it.

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Vanilla Room Spray

December 25, 2008 Create Your Own

This is a wonderful method of creating an affordable, sensuous vanilla room spray. This recipe calls for making your own vanilla extract. You can use your homemade extract in food recipes as well! Vanilla Extract 8 oz. clean, dark glass bottle and cap 7-8 ounces of vodka (inexpensive varieties do work well) 2-3 fresh, high-quality [...]

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Aromatic Bath for relief of the Winter Blues!

December 12, 2008 Create Your Own

A wonderful bath can help you bounce back from those winter blahs.

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Tone Thyme

December 4, 2008 Create Your Own

Mix up this bottle of tea and essential oils to balance the pH of your skin after cleansing.  It’s easy … it’s cooling … and it leaves your skin feeling refreshed!  Place the ingredients in a glass bottle.  Essential oils do not dissolve in water or tea so be sure to shake this mixture well [...]

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Snuggle by a Winter Fire

November 22, 2008 Create Your Own

4 drops of cinnamon, 4 drops of ginger oil, 4 drops of sandalwood oil, 4 drops of orange oil. Sprinkle mixture onto logs 15 minutes before starting fire.  To add a little more sparkle, throw a few colored pinecones onto the fire once you get it going.  Remember to use safety when building and using [...]

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Carpet and Room Deodorizer

November 8, 2008 Create Your Own

Ingredients: 4 oz. clean spray bottle with a fine mist setting (do not use a bottle that previously contained cleaning products or hair products such as hair spray). 30-40 drops of your favorite essential oil or essential oil blend keeping the safety data of the chosen essential oil(s) in mind 1.5 ounces of distilled water [...]

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Lavender Water

October 25, 2008 Create Your Own

1 cup lavender flowers, scented rose petals or orange blossom. 1/4 cup ethyl alcohol at room temperature. Steep for 6 days in a screw-top jar, shakeing vigorously each day. Strain and Decant into a dark glass bottle. (referenced from the “Complete book of herbs”)

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