Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Using Essential Oils Around Home

Essential Oils aren't just for soap makers or perfumers.  Anyone can enjoy them -- if only for their amazing fragrances.  There's a lot of homeopathic use for essential oils.  You have to be careful, though, since not all of them can be used directly on skin let alone ingested.  And there's always that disclaimer:  "...not to be used by young children or pregnant women without a physician's advice etc...".  You can put a couple of drops in a stinky garbage can, vacuum cleaner bag, laundry rinse.  Some people make a spritzer to spray onto sheets.  Wake up a limping potpourri.  Patchouli typically isn't sensitizing and so is used in bath water and mixed with a carrier oil to use in massage.  And the uses and different essential oils go on and on...

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