How to Make Scented Oils for Burning

Rooms can be scented by burning scented oils in a variety of special scented oil burners. The oil burners themselves are usually a tea candle lit beneath a dish suspended above it in some artistic manner.

You can make your own scented oils for burning, using your own herbs, flowers and spices. Here's a basic recipe allowing you to choose three popular scents, but once you get the basics, experiment with other plants. I've chosen dried materials for your first scented oils, but you can use fresh. It's just that dried tends to have less mold spores, which can occasionally be a problem with any infused oil. Once you get the basic process, you can experiment making scented oils for burning from your own unique garden grown herbs, the cedar tree out back, even your antique roses.

With this method, you're allowing the essential oils of the plant material to infuse directly into your odorless grape seed carrier oil.

Things You'll Need

• Sterilized mason jar (these are heat resistant)
• Cold pressed grape seed oil (usually sold with other cold pressed culinary oils)
• Dried rosemary, or
• Dried orange peel, and/or
• Cinnamon sticks
• Cheese cloth
• Sieve
• Container with tight lid for the final product.
• A warm area about 115 degrees F. Article suggests where

Instructions

1. Put the scenting plant material in the jar. Choose either rosemary, orange peel or cinnamon. Orange and cinnamon can also be mixed. Crush the cinnamon sticks and crumble the other two, but don't pulverize or powder them. Fill the jar half full.

2. Fill the jar with grape seed oil.

3. Fasten the lid tightly and put in warm place for 24 hours. Try setting it on top of the refrigerator or hot water heater and covering with a towel, or setting it in water in a crock pot on low.

4. Filter once through a regular screen sieve, and then again through cheese cloth, squeezing the cloth once it's almost finished.

5. Test the oil. Put a few drops on your burner and see if the scent is strong enough.

6. Double or triple the strength if you choose. Put the same oil back into fresh plant materials and repeat 2 or three times.

7. Add a few drops of your homemade scented burning oil to your burner, and store remaining in the refrigerator.

Tips & Warnings

• All infused oils, even culinary ones, have the possibility of developing botulism.

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