How to Make Your Own Herbal Essence Oil

Herbal essence oil---for baths or massage---is normally sold in 2- to 4-ounce bottles and can be very expensive. Imagine enjoying more than just two drops in your bath--- you could make gallons of your own herbal essence oil for a fraction of the price. Now you can enjoy all the benefits of natural herbal essence oils every day. They can be used for deep tissue massage, personal lubricant, dry skin, wrinkles, eczema, burns, scrapes, blemishes, and much more.

Things You'll Need

• 2 glass jars with lids
• Oil of your choice
• Dried herb of your choice
• Strainer

Instructions

Making Herbal Essence Oil

1. Choose one of the following oils according to your needs:

   Extra-Virgin Olive: For massage, body, lubricating, foot, hair, or healing oils
   Grape Seed: For face, blemish control, and sensitive skin oils
   Jojoba: For body and bath oils

   And one or more of these herbs:

   Arnica: For massage, burns, bruises, and dry skin
   Calendula Flower: For scrapes, cuts, dry skin, dry feet, bathing, dry hair, and cracked skin
   Lobelia Flower: For skin diseases, eczema, blisters, rashes, bathing, and massage
   Chamomile flower: For bathing, body moisturizing, face, and massage
   Rose Geranium Flowers: For wrinkles, blemishes, and facial moisturizing
   Lavender: For bathing and massage
   Lemongrass: For bathing, massage, facial moisturizing, blemishes, and dry skin

2. Combine 2 parts oil for every 1 part dried herb into one of your glass jars.
   For example, use 1 cup of dried herb with 2 cups of oil.

3. Cover and place the jar in sunlight for two weeks.

4. Shake your oil-herb mixture once a day.

5. Strain your oil into another clean glass jar. Cover your herbal essence oil and store it indoors.

Tips & Warnings

• Organic or wildcrafted dried herbs make the highest quality herbal essence oils. Herbal essence oils can also be used to make salves: Melt 1/4 cup of beeswax in a double boiler and add 1 cup of essence oil, mix, place in a jar, and refrigerate until firm.

• Anything you put on your skin is absorbed into your body, so check with your doctor before using any new herbs, especially if you're taking prescription medications.

References

• Retail costs of herbal essence oils
• Rose geranium: uses and benefits

Resources

• Organic and wildcrafted dried herbs