It’s the subtle things that separate a house from a home. Like the fresh scent in your drawers and your closets. Or perhaps the spice undertone that warms up the kitchen. Remember, it’s your space. Make sure you enjoy everything about it.

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Everything starts with a good fragrance oil, whether you are making candles, potpourris, oil warmers, bath products or other home scenting.  What we see consumers fail to understand most is the fragrance oil they get in local shops is only 10% as strong as what we sell.  After using true high quality oils, we are pretty shocked to see the watered down versions offered in commercial environments.  You can use our high quality oils for bath products as well as candles and in the home aromatherapy section.  If you are willing to spend $19.95 on a Yankee Candle that lasts a week, why not buy a pound of our oil that will last you a month or better?  We do not cut our oils with DPG or any other agent.  Many fragrance houses do because your nose only has a certain threshold to smell scent.  Ask if they cut their fragrance oils before you spend money on junk.  How to tell if you have been DPG'd?  The fragrance starts to smell awful after just a few hours in an aroma warmer and does not last for a few days as it should.  Another obvious way to tell if is your fragrance oil generates smoke.  You can also put some on a peice of paper and see how that smells a week later.  It should smell like what you bought.  Our fragrance oils are good for body as well as home use.   Click here to see our new fragrance line.    

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Bamboo Reeds

Here is  a new and fashionable idea for fragrance throw.  Pour about 4 ounces (about 1/3 way up the bottle) of your favorite fragrance oil into a pretty old fashioned apothecary bottle.  Insert ten 18" Bamboo reed sticks.  Arrange the reeds to fan out.   I placed the artsy object in my guest bathroom so I could really tell if this works.  It was splendid.

Within 24 hours you will notice the Bamboo absorbed the oil and did a great job on throwing fragrance.  Quality fragrance oil should throw scent for about 4 weeks. Click here for our Bamboo Reeds and here for our fragrance oils.

Fragrance Oil Blending: Making 200 Scents from 30 Basic Scents   

The idea had so much merit to me, I conducted much research on the web.  At one point I was getting very frustrated and started searching for a two week school that may teach the fine art.  I was willing to go wherever a school was, even if in another country.  Long story short, there is no such school!  Back to the web,  I noticed that no one really writes about how to make the blends.  After grueling research and real life experimentation, I came up with about 30 base fragrance oils that make over 200 scents, using the best oils possible.  Based upon this data I made a fragrance oil blending chart.  To mix your own full line of oils, you need larger quantities of some fragrance oils than others.  For example, vanilla is in so many formulas, that to carry a full mixing palette you need more of vanilla than any one oil.  I came up with 84 ounces total in the amounts needed to mix any of the 200 scents.  This is just short of six pounds of fragrance oils.     I created a Fragrance Oil Blending Chart in the back of the newly revised "Self Apothecary"  Book.  Click here for that book.   

Custom Fragrance Oil Blending is so handy, you could almost offer a good shampoo, bath gel, or lotion base and custom mix them with fragrance oils as needed.  This means you would not have to mix any base item unless you know it is sold. Even I change my personal tastes, so I would mix a new batch every few weeks with perhaps a new fragrance.  Customer's and/or family members love to know that an product has been custom made for them.  I think this is how Bath and Body Works got their start until they began selling ready made tubes of the best sellers. Personally, I am happy to know how to blend just for my own home use.  The knowledge of fragrance oil blending is truly the most empowering area of making your own candles and soaps.  I add fragrance oils to just about everything but shampoo these days.  I am finding I have to draw the line on my seriously processed hair leaving that to the experts. 

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This book shows you how to use a small amount of essential oils for the maximum benefit as well as how to easily formulate other natural cleaning solutions.  From the vacuum cleaner, to the kitchen sink, this is an excellent and comprehensive book.  Once the theories are applied you can smell the wonderful benefits!