Aromatherapy Tools

Video Transcript

"So these are some of the supplies you'll want to use if you're making aromatherapy blends. Whether you're making bath salts or oils and lotions or misters, one good thing to have is just a glass or ceramic container, a bowl is easy, so that if you're mixing something, for example, bath salts, you can kind of pour here and then it's landing, whatever is extra is landing in the bowl and it's easier to contain and it's also something that's easier to clean up. Essential oils will have a really strong scent to them, so if you're, if you're using a glass container or ceramic container, and then you're going to wash that afterward, that's a little bit better than say using a wooden bowl or letting any spillage go onto a wooden surface. This is actually a solution of half water and half witch hazel and this is what I use to clean my droppers. And ideally if you're going to be blending various kinds of essential oils, you want to use one dropper for each essential oil and then rinse it with the witch hazel and water by squeezing the dropper, and then wash this with soap and water as best you can. And try to keep one dropper for each type of essential oil so that you're not mixing one oil to the next and contaminating the whole container. The other thing you're going to want is, say you're making bath salts, you want some kind of container that you can put it into. And you know you can go to Pier One or Cost Plus and they have pretty little jars like this that are really nice. There are companies online, there's a company called SKS and they sell these blue bottles and they're just a clear or excuse me, almost clear, blue bottle and those are really great for lotions. Containers for massage oils are good. Plastic isn't usually the best way to put, to contain massage oil. It's better to get some kind of a glass bottle with a squirt top. Another great thing if you're making essential oil products with, like bath products, Epsom salts. That's a wonderful product. Go to any drug store, two dollars and ninety nine cents for three pounds. Very cheap, and actually whether you buy Epsom salts in a drug store or in a fancy boutique, it doesn't matter what the packaging is, it is always the same thing inside that package. So it doesn't matter how much you spend on it, you're always going to get the same thing. So get them cheaply if you can. May as well. So having some good containers if you're going to blend a big batch of bath salts, sometimes having a big container that you can mix things in is really nice, you know, just get what you like. Another good thing is a mask. You might know, you might like a certain formula and know how you make it and you want to make another batch of that, but if you are exposed to the essential oils for an hour, you might feel a little bit giddy and funny, so you can wear a mask so it doesn't give you a headache or make you a little bit giddy to be having that extra amount of time that you're with the open essential oils. Also, rubber gloves are very good. You really don't want to get the raw essential oil on your skin ever if you can avoid it. It should always be in some kind of carrier like oil, massage oil, or in some kind of salts for bath salts or whatever. You don't ever want it to go directly onto your skin. And one final thing which is kind of unusual, is we don't have it in front of us, but a little bit of milk is good. If you're going to put essential oils into your bath or if you're going to put bath salts with essential oils into your bath, you can put a tablespoon or two of milk into the bath with them and that helps to break up the oil that goes onto the surface of the water. So these are some of the kinds of tools that you're going to use when you make essential oil blends."