How to Make Natural Perfume

Video Transcript

"Perfumed oils have been made for about four thousand years. I'm Lauren Roy, Sugar Hollow Farm, in Phillipston, Mass., and I'm going to show you how to make your own perfumed oils. Perfumed oils are really a very individual experience, because everybody has different memories that are attached to the fragrances that they like. It could be vanilla because you remember grandma's cooking, or lavender, because you really like the way that fragrance smells and relaxes you, but what you want to do to make your very own is take a bottle; a dark bottle's really good because it doesn't break down the oil in the fragrance from the essential oils very quickly, and you're going to take a carrier oil, and that's something that carries the fragrance oils in it. You can use sweet almond oil and olive oil, but you can also just use regular vegetable oil. I use these in my products because they have anti-inflammatory properties to them, and they help reduce swelling and and they, olive oil is really good. It has been used for thousands of years to reduce wrinkles. So, they work really well. And then, you just take whatever essential oils that you like. You can take flowered essential oils or maybe a a woodier one like sandalwood, or clove bud, or even petuli, and you just add four or five drops of each oil to the bottle, and then store it in a nice cool place. You can use it for massage, in the bath. You can even put it in a little water bottle and put some of this in a water bottle and use it to squirt your sheets or your room as a room freshener. I'm Lauren Roy, for Sugar Hollow Farm, in Phillipston, Mass."