Who doesn’t love perfume? I used to love perfume in my hair, clothes, skin, body lotion, car, house, etc. I wanted everything to smell beautiful! It wasn’t until I had my son that I had to stop using perfume and all the fragrances in my house due to his sensitive skin! As I look back now, it was a blessing!
Perfumes are not new. From the beginning of time people have used plants, herbs, oils and resin for fragrance on food and themselves! Yes…even food! That means they could eat the fragrance they made! They used perfume for aroma, to bathe, rituals, worship, brides, marriage, intimacy, health, burials, purification’s, and many stories in the Bible talk about alabaster jars of perfume. Mary used expensive perfume on the feet of our Savior Jesus Christ, and women like Queen Ester had to have a year of beauty treatments before being presented to the king.
It wasn’t until late 1800s that synthetic chemicals were used, making perfumes easy to mass produce. The first synthetic perfume was nitrobenzene made from nitric acid and benzene. Both ingredients were known to cause issues from respiratory to immune issues. “According to https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/benzene/basics/facts.asp today one of the top 20 chemicals for product volume in the United States is Benzene found in plastics, lubricants, rubbers, dyes, detergent, drugs, pesticides, paint, glues, etc. Benzene-side effects may cause tremors, rapid or irregular heartbeats, headaches, confusion, unconsciousness and even death.”
Sounds scary, right? Yes, we are surrounded by toxins everyday so why not use essential oils as your perfume instead!
To make your own all you need to do is to pick a base, middle and top notes.
Base notes are usually thicker oil and they stay on the skin longer. These oils are Vetiver, Frankincense, Myrrh, Sandalwood, Vanilla etc. There are many Middle notes like Lavender, Peppermint, Ginger, Geranium, to name a few, and your top notes are the essential oils that disappear quickly and they are your citrus oils, Orange, Bergamot, Lemon, etc.
What I like to do is look up in my “Emotions & Essential Oils” book from aromatools.com and see what it recommends for what I might be dealing with emotionally that day or week. For example, if I’m “worried” it says the oils I need are wild orange, tangerine, sandalwood, cilantro, massage blend or joyful blend.
So my base note would be Sandalwood, middle either cilantro, massage blend or joyful and top note would be wild orange or tangerine. I like to add 3-4 drops each of a base, middle and top total of 10 drops of essential oil to my rollerball and fill the rest with fractionated coconut oil.
But when in doubt just have the dōTERRA emotional aromatherapy touch oils on hand and grab what you might need for that day! They all smell fantastic and guess what? Each oil is designed with base, middle and top notes so we can wear them as a perfume!
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