Blending and Mixing Essential Oils At Home

Mixing essential oils for health or aroma can often be more effective than using any single oil alone. But even though essential oil combinations usually enhance each other to create greater results they can also work against each other when poorly chosen oils are blended together.

But don’t let this put you off having a go at mixing essential oils. Here at SavvyHomemade, we have lots of beauty recipes and how-tos that will help guide you through the basics of blending and mixing essential oils.

Introduction

When it comes to mixing oils you will find that there are hundreds of combinations to try so it would not be cost-effective for most people to have every essential oil available.

When looking through our facial at-home products, you may find you don’t always have the essential oils called for in the recipe.

This does not mean you can’t create a nice wrinkle cream with oils you might already have. The fragrant or therapeutic result may vary slightly from the original recipe, but you can usually get it close enough.

Ready Blended Oils

• The first thing to mention, which might be a little obvious, is the convenience of using a blend. Mixing up a blend can take some time and requires a little bit of experience. If you’re new to using these types of oils, buying a blend might be a great choice for you.
• When you have a bottle of premixed essential oils, you can grab it off the shelf and throw a few drops into whatever you’re making or in the diffuser. This is super simple and a totally stress-free way of using a blended oil.
• Another reason to buy a blend over mixing your own is that the one you purchase, provided you’ve given your money to a reputable retailer, will have been blended by a professional. These people know what they’re doing, have extensive experience mixing a scent profile, and possess an excellent working knowledge of the different properties of essential oils.
• Lastly, it’s worth mentioning that buying a blend can be cheaper than purchasing oils to mix your own, especially if you’re a beginner. Let’s say you want a mix of Clove Bud and Lime blended essential oil, you could easily buy Rocky Mountain Oil’s ‘Energize’ blend that retails for $14 for 15mls. Now, if you wanted to make this yourself, you’d need to purchase a bottle of Clove Bud and Lime separately, both of which retail at $12.50 each for a minimum of 15mls on RMO’s website, for a total of $25. If you like a particular blend and know you’re going to buy it often, this changes things a bit, but we’ll come onto that later.

Where Can I Buy An Essential Oil Blend?

Edens Garden

You can buy Edens Garden oils at Amazon, a fabulous manufacturer and retailer of high-quality essential oils. They, too, have a cool loyalty program, offer a money-back guarantee, free delivery in the US, and a fantastic learning center and set of printables to help out the beginner.

Eden’s Garden’s blends are known as ‘Synergy Blends’ and are 100% pure, so don’t worry about any carrier oil in the blend. With a choice of 57 different blends, all designed for specific purposes such as ‘Cellulite’, ‘Sleep Ease’ and even ‘Hope’, you’re sure to find one that suits your needs or personality.

Take a look at this article I wrote a few weeks ago about the different brands of essential oils I’ve tried and tested!

Plant Therapy Oils

Again you can get Plant Therapy at Amazon, they are an excellent essential oils manufacturer and retailer. All of their products are of exceptional quality, and their brand ensures a money back guarantee if you don’t like your products.

They have several different essential oil blends and they are some of the best! Now, make sure you have a good look at what you’re buying, as some of these essential oil blends are mixed with carrier oil. Unless this is what you want, make sure you’re getting one of their neat blended oils.

DIY Blends

There are many reasons why you might blend your own essential oils.

• First, I wanted to mention that blending yourself at home gives you back control over your own oils. It allows you to customize your blends to suit you, rather than working through a list of pre-blended oils until you find one that smells great and works the best. Not only that, but it’s pretty fun! Play around with it. Experiment with your oils. It’s worth a try.
• Not only is it fun, but when you blend your own essential oils, you’re learning at the same time! When you buy a blend, you don’t learn the individual scent of the single oils, nor do you fully grasp the varied and interesting properties of each one. It is experienced solely as a blend. When you come to blend your own, do some research on essential oils. Expand your horizons. Learn the different properties of essential oils. Try out what smells great together. Hone your craft so that perhaps one day, you could sell your blends too!
• Lastly, mixing your own blends can be more cost-effective. Woah. Hold up! You’re probably confused because I said buying a pre-blend is cheaper earlier on. That’s true, but only if you take it at face value and only when you’re getting your toes wet. It certainly isn’t cost-effective. I’ll explain why.

Save Money By Blending Your Own Oils

Once again, let’s take the example of Rocky Mountain Oil’s ‘Energize’ blend. If you were to buy the 15ml blend it would be $14, but if you bought the Lime essential oil and the Clove Bud essential oil separately, you’d spend $25.

Cheaper to buy the pre-blend, right?

Yes, but it wouldn’t be ‘cost-effective’. As the minimum you can buy of anything from RMO is 15mls, you could potentially get two 15ml bottles of ‘Energize’ blend from your $25 purchase of the singles oils, meaning the cost of producing a bottle of this blend drops to $12.50.One 15ml bottle of Lime EO + One 15ml bottle of Clove Bud EO = 30mls or Two 15ml bottles of the Energize blend.

A saving of $1.50 might not seem like much here, but when you’re blending in bulk for or if you’re working with the more expensive essential oils and blends, it really does make a difference. With a blend, you’re paying for a professional’s time, experience and knowledge of essential oils and blending, not for a better product. Blending your own also gives you the ability to shop around to get the cheapest single essential oils for your blends, increasing your savings even more!

Good Essential Oil Blend Recipes?

There are so many recipes for essential oil blends, and I thought it’d be nice to give you some to play around with. These are basic recipes that I’ve used in the past and are great to have a go at when you’re getting started with blending your own oils.

Remember to smell each oil’s scent before you blend and read up on their different active properties. This will help you expand your understanding of essential oils so that soon, you won’t need to follow a recipe.

Stress Buster

• 4 drops Cedarwood essential oil
• 3 drops Bergamot essential oil
• 2 drops Jasmine essential oil
• 1 drop Neroli essential oil

Welcome Home

• 3 drops Orange essential oil
• 3 drops Grapefruit essential oil
• 2 drops Lemon essential oil
• 2 drops Bergamot essential oil

Sleepy Time

• 3 drops Orange essential oil
• 3 drops Lavender essential oil
• 3 drops Chamomile essential oil

Sunshine

• 5 drops Orange essential oil
• 5 drops Grapefruit essential oil
• 2 drops Lime essential oil

Energy Boost

• 4 drops Peppermint essential oil
• 5 drops Sweet Orange essential oil

Focus

• 3 drops Wild Orange essential oil
• 3 drops Peppermint essential oil

Bugs-Be-Gone

• 1 drop Lemongrass essential oil
• 1 drop Thyme essential oil
• 1 drop Eucalyptus essential oil
• 1 drop Basil essential oil

Essential oil blends can be powerful stimulants for your mind and body. Whether you diffuse them or throw them into your different health and beauty products, you’ll definitely find a use for them.

That’s whether you buy them or move on to the next step and blend your own. If you’re looking for more information on the different properties of essential oils, why not take a look at our essential oils guide?

Looking to buy some specific blends, or prefer to get hold of single oils for your own recipe blends? Take a look at this thorough introduction to some of the best essential oil brands out there

But tell me, do you make your own blends, or do you buy them? What kinds of blends do you use? How do you use them? Let me know in the comment section below!