Create your own perfume spray with essential oils and Everclear alcohol.
Fragrance sprays for the home or perfumes may use in their ingredients natural essential oils, distilled from the stems, leaves, bark and roots of plants. Some commercial sprays include harsh chemicals. If you want to make your own natural fragrance spray, create a personal combination of pure essential oils. These oils can cause skin irritation with direct application to the skin, so you need to dissolve the oils. Since oil does not dissolve in water alone, you need to add a solvent. Create an ounce of your own natural oil spray by dissolving your favorite essential oils in a mixture of water and the pure grain alcohol Everclear.
Instructions
1. Combine 2 tsp. distilled water with 4 tsp. Everclear in a small glass jar. This creates the alcohol base needed to dissolve the pure essential oils. In addition to the safe skin factor, dissolving the thick oils thins them for easier spray application.
2. Place 8 drops each of the essential oils lavender and vanilla in the glass jar with a dropper. Smell the oil to test the strength of the aroma. The aroma will become stronger over time. If you add more essential oil, you need to add more of the alcohol and water mixture so you have 6 teaspoons, or 1 oz., of the Everclear mixture for every 25 drops of essential oils.
3. Place eight drops of your desired carrier oil in the jar with the dropper. Natural essential oils are strong, carrier oils help dissolve essential oils. Carrier oils come from distillation of the fruit or nuts of plants. Some common carrier oils include almond oil, apricot kernel oil and sesame oil.
4. Place the lid on the jar and shake well. Store the bottle in a cool, dark place for up to two weeks. Shake the bottle once a day during the two-week period.
5. Place the cheesecloth over a mixing bowl and pour the oil and Everclear mixture into the bowl. Pour the strained mixture into the spray perfume bottle.
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