Get Creative! Custom Blending at Home
Guide to Blending at Home
Have fun and experiment with our Aroma Blends and
therapeutic grade essential oils to create your own products at home.
Download our Essential Oil Guide to Wellness
to read about oils that pair well together for physical or
physiological benefits. Follow the steps below to custom scent any
carrier oil or unscented base: - Choose any unscented product.
- Choose one or more of our Aroma Blends or Essential Oils.
- Add approximately 45 drops of aroma to 250 ml of unscented product.
- Shake, stir and enjoy your custom scented product!
Add the recommended amount of drops of aroma to the product.
Remember, you can always add more fragrance but you cannot take it away
once it's been added. When blending with pure Essential Oils please be sure to check safety data and contraindications. Click here to read any contraindications that might apply to the oils you've selected for your custom blend.
Some of Our Favourite Recipes for Summer
 After Sun
Blend this into a 100ml Comfrey Gel.
Lavender - 15 drops
Bergamot (free) - 2 drops
Geranium - 3 drops
Chamomile Blue - 5 drops
Rosewood - 5 drops
How it works: Lavender is beneficial for any type of burn, including
sunburns. It offers immediate relief and healing, and may accelerate the
healing process.
Usage: Use as needed to relieve sun burned skin.
 Cellulite Blend
100 ml Carrier Oil
Grapefruit - 40 drops
Lemon - 30 drops
Juniper Berry - 15 drops
Cypress - 15 drops
Usage:
Add to bath or massage in a circular motion into legs and torso to help
reduce and alleviate the symptoms of cellulite by increasing
circulation.
Essential Oil Dilution Guide
All essential oils must be diluted first into a base carrier, with the exception of Lavender and Tea Tree. See the chart below for guidelines as to how much essential oil to use based on the volume of an unscented product or base carrier.
| Number of Drops of Essential Oil | | Amount of Unscented Product | Babies / Children / Elderly, Fragile / Pregnant Women | General Scenting / Pleasure | Psycho-Emotional / Therapeutic | Intense / Localized | | 5 ml (1/6 oz) | 1 drop | 1 drops | 2 drops | 3 drops | | 15 ml (1/2 oz) | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | | 30 ml (1oz) | 3 | 6 | 12 | 18 | | 50 ml (1 1/2 oz) | 5 | 10 | 20 | 30 | | 60 ml (2 oz) | 6 | 12 | 24 | 36 | | 100 ml (3 1/2 oz) | 10 | 20 | 40 | 60 | | 125 ml (4 oz) | 12 | 30 | 50 | 75 | | 250 ml (8 oz) | 25 | 60 | 100 | 150 | | 500 ml (16 oz) | 50 | 120 | 200 | 300 |
Useful Conversions- 30 ml = 1 oz
- 20 drops essential oil = 1 ml
- 1000 ml = 32 oz = 1 litre
- 100 drops essential oil = 5 ml = 1 tsp = 1/16 oz
- 4000 ml = 128 oz = 1 gallon
- 350 drops essential oil = 15 ml = 1 tbsp = 1/2 oz
 Aromatherapy Spring Cleaning with Essential Oils
 Spring
is finally here! With the start of the season comes the urge to give
your home a fresh start with spring cleaning. And what better way to put
a little spring into your home than with the smells and benefits of
nature's essences, essential oils.
I find that when I infuse my home with natural scents as spring comes
into full bloom, my family becomes more eager to get outside and enjoy
nature to its fullest.
Here are a few ways to use essential oils in your spring cleaning line-up: - Vacuuming. Add 1-2 drops of anti-bacterial lavender or geranium essential
oil into your vacuum bag to keep it fresh and to diffuse the scent into
the air as you clean. For bagless vacuums, add the drops to a tissue
and put it into the collection receptacle.
- Surface Cleaner. Create your own multi-surface disinfectant spray to use on any surface, sink and counter.
- Drawer Fresheners. There's nothing like putting on fresh smelling clothing! Put one of our aromatherapy bath bombs into your drawers to give them a nice, fresh scent of your choice.
- Dishwashing.To add fragrance or to improve the antiseptic action of your liquid soap , add several drops of essential oils like spruce, pine, lemon, bergamot, and orange. You can also add a few drops of these oils to dishwasher to help disinfect and purify it.
- Carpet Deodorizer. Whether you're removing smells from pets, cigarettes or cooking, you can make your own essential oil carpet deodorizer easily freshen and sanitize your carpets.
- Window Cleaner. Get your windows squeaky clean without the sour smell of commercial sprays with this essential oil window cleaner you can make yourself.
- Yoga Mat Spray. Is your stinky yoga mat keeping you achieving inner peace? Create your own essential oil yoga mat spray to disinfect it, giving it and you a fresh start.
- Air Fresheners. There are a number of ways to freshen the air in your home. Our favourite is to use ultrasonic diffusers to
purify your air and disperse the beneficial scents of essential oils
throughout your home. For convenience (and because everyone in my family
likes different scents!), I have a diffuser in all the main rooms of
our home. Another option is essential oil reed diffusers,
which passively disperse oils into the air. They're great for
bathrooms! Or if you want to combine that with a spray for "when you
need it", try getting one of our essential oil air freshener spray with a matching scent. If you like to combine fragrance with candle effects, try our aromatherapy soy candles.
My favourite essential oil blends for the spring are ones that remind me of flowers in bloom. Try Love (with Rose and Jasmine), Wild Gardenia (with Ylang Ylang and Jasmine), and Lavender Meadow (with Lavender & Orange). I also really like refreshing blends that smell like the clean, outdoors like Air (with Cedarwood & Spearmint), Coast (with Lavender & Frankincense), Breeze (with Bergamot & Oakmoss) and Green Forest (with Lime & Basil). Do
you have any special ways of cleaning using essential oils? Which are
your favourite essential oils and blends for the spring? Jacqui MacNeill
4 Aromatherapy Tips To Help You Sleep
 Insomnia
is a problem for many people. Not getting enough sleep makes it harder
to perform your daily activities, both mental and physical. It also
weakens your immune system. There are many great tips and articles for
improving sleep patterns (here's one I like), but sometimes it's not enough and people need a little extra help. Sleep Aromatherapy, using particular essential oils can give you a little extra help getting to sleep naturally without chemical drugs.
Create a Relaxing, Aromatherapy Sleep Ritual To
make the best use of aromatherapy methods, create a customized,
anxiety-reducing relaxation ritual for yourself in the 1-2 hours leading
up to bed time. A good friend of mine was having trouble sleeping due
to stress and anxiety. She developed the following routine and now
sleeps like a baby and even looks forward to bedtime. She starts by
taking a relaxing aromatherapy bath or shower, lighting a candle or
running her aromatherapy diffuser
in the bathroom while she bathes. When she gets out, she writes down
her worries in a journal and lets her mind rest knowing that she can
handle them in the morning. She then sprays a heated shoulder wrap with lavender aroma mist then reads until she falls asleep. 
Essential Oils that Help You Sleep Lavender oil, chamomile roman oil, ylang ylang oil, marjoram oil, and clary sage oil all have sleep-inducing qualities. They can be used on their own or you can mix these essential oils to create your own sleep-inducing essential oil blend.
You can also try Escents' own Sleep, Rest and Night Time Blends. Sleep
with Chamomile and Ylang Ylang is a classic blend designed to help you
to relax and get to sleep faster and allows for a deeper, more peaceful
sleep. Chamomile was included in this blend because it has been used for
centuries in teas as a mild, relaxing sleep aid, treatment for fevers,
colds, stomach ailments, and as an anti-inflammatory. Ylang Ylang evokes
calmness and can melt away anxiety, tension and stress.
Night Time
with Chamomile and Lavender, is a new blend designed to help you leave
the day behind and let your worries melt away and help you rest and
sleep. Along with the benefits of Chamomile, Lavender is used in this
blend and is the most versatile essential oil and has been used for
centuries from calming and relaxing the mind. Night Time is great to diffuse when you're reading a book before bed or getting ready to hop between the sheets.
Rest
with Lavender and Rosewood, is also new and can help relieve tension so
you can rest and prepare yourself for sleep. This blend can also be
used throughout the day when you just want to relax and unwind.
4 Ways to Use Aromatherapy to Help You Sleep 1) Aromatherapy Diffusers. Add 5-8 drops of your chosen essential oils or our Sleep essential oil blend to
some water in an ultrasonic diffuser and turn it on when you go to bed.
It will purify and permeate the air in your bedroom with your chosen
oils. Be sure to use one that shuts off automatically like our Ultramist Diffuser you don't have get up and turn it off. Do NOT use a candle diffuser. Candles should never be left unattended. 
2) Essential Oil Mists. Add 40 drops of essential oils to an unscented mist. You can also our Lavender Aroma Mist or our Sleep Aroma Mist. Lightly spray the mist on bed linens before getting into bed to go to sleep. 3) Roll-On Therapy. Add 20 drops to an unscented roll-on or try our Sleep Aromatherapy Roll-On. Apply to wrists and neck before going to sleep. 
4) Relaxing Aromatherapy Bath or Shower. Add 10-20 drops of essential oils to 30ml of unscented bath oil or unscented wash & bubble bath.
Draw a nice, warm bath adding the mix to your water. Make sure the
water is not too hot or cold or else it may stimulate you rather than
relax you. Alternatively, you can use our wash & bubble as a body
wash in the shower or try out our new Rest Therapeutic salts or our Night Time bath oil. 
Have you found an essential oil blend or aromatherapy ritual that works well against insomnia? Please comment and let me know!
Jacqui MacNeill
Jacqui's Favorite Essential Oils for the Fall
 Each season has its ups and downs and we notice these most at the onset of each season. The fall is represented by transformation and harvest. It is a time we feel thankful for all of nature's bounty, whether this comes in the form of harvest feasts or simply the beauty of it all as we walk in the woods and appreciate the colour changes in the leaves.
Many people find that the change in season brings about its own unique physical and emotional quirks for people making its impact strongest at the onset. To help make sure that we're making the most of the fall season it's good to nip these things in the bud so to speak. Below are some health solutions using essential oils to help you manage issues related to seasonal change.
1. Low Immunity. While winter is widely regarded the "Cold & Flu" season, our immune systems often get caught off guard when while our bodies acclimatize to the change in temperature that comes with fall leaving us more vulnerable to illness. Try to maintain your activity levels and healthy eating habits as the season changes to help keep your immune system strong. See our essential oil health solutions giving your immune system an extra boost. As the cooler temperatures make me feel like nesting inside, I find I am using my diffuser more and more, with our Pure Imunity Blend. I also use this blend in my lotion as it's a great way to boost my immune system - my kids bring home so many germs from school! If I do start feeling under the weather or just run down, I roll our Respiration Blend throughout the day, it always helps to make me breathe better.
2. Allergies. Depending on where you live and what you're allergic too, the fall can be a bad season for allergies, oftentime worse than spring. If you suffer from fall allergies, let someone else do the raking, mowing, composting, etc and stay indoors. Avoid hanging clothing or bedding outdoors so you don't expose them to pollen and mold. One of our store Managers was telling me that she uses Niaouli in her Arometherapy Pendant (the ones that appeared on Dragon's Den!) as a great way to reduce affects of allergies. I would also recommend burning Niaouli in a diffuser at bedtime or even adding it to your shower gel so the benefits can really get into your system. See our essential oil health solutions for allergies.
3. Fatigue. With the gradual decrease in daylight, people often find themselves more and more physically and mentally fatigued as fall sets in. People also start to "hibernate" more, decreasing the physical activity that helps keep energy levels up. Of course, you should try to maintain your fitness regime, but aromatherapy can also help, so here are tips for dealing with fatigue using essential oils. Most of our Escents staffers have a diffuser in their offices, and many of us use Rosemary in them to combat the mid-afternoon slump, or use it in a lotion or wash as a perfect way to increase energy. A quick trick I often use when I'm driving and needing to perk up is to roll Headache Relief on the back of my neck - honestly, there aren't many things that Headache Relief doesn't work on; there must be a reason it's been our best seller for nearly 20 years!
What essential oils do you find most useful or appealing in the fall? Please share your thoughts with us in the comments.
Jacqui MacNeill
Asthma Relief Essential Oil Recipe
Trouble breathing? This recipe submitted by Michelle from Escents Commercial Drive is great for asthma or even to help clear passage for general respiration.
15 Ways to Use Healing Tea Tree Oil
Tea tree essential oil has a wide variety of uses and applications, especially for healing. We use it ourselves in many of our natural aromatherapy wellness treatments, but it is also quite versatile on its own. Here are 15 ways tea tree oil can be used in day-to-day life.
7 Ways to Calm Body & Mind with Cedarwood Oil
Cedar trees are also commonly found in landscaping in homes across Canada. It has a wide variety of uses in aromatherapy, particularly in ways that calm the body and mind. Here are 7 such ways.
Callous Essential Oil Treatment Recipe
Got the barefoot blues? Get ready to put your feet on display with this Callous Essential Oil Treatment recipe submitted by Michelle from Escents Commercial Drive.
The Benefits of Using Rose Hydrosol (Rosewater)
Rosewater has been used for millenia for skin care, emotional & spiritual healing, even religious ceremonies. Here, Escents President and Founder Jacqui MacNeill shares some of the many benefits of this versatile tonic.
Natural Essential Oil Anxiety Relief Recipe
Dealing with post-holiday stress? This natural essential oil anxiety relief recipe submitted by Michelle from Escents Commercial Drive may be just want you need to soothe your soul.
How to Buy Essential Oils
Make sure you're getting the right kind and quality of essential oils for therapeutic use with this list of tips on buying essential oils.
Why Lavender Essential Oil?
Lavender essential oil is one of the best-loved and most used essential oils, and is usually the first oil that people buy when they are learning about aromatherapy. But why is lavender so popular, and what makes it so special?
Aromatherapy Tips for Travellers
Travelling, while usually enjoyable, does have its moments of unpleasantness. Essential oils can be a nice way to refresh your body and mind. Here are a few aromatherapy tips for making travel more pleasant.
The Do-It-Yourself Aromatherapy Pedicure
There are lots of easy ways to keep your feet looking good while avoiding summertime problems like toenail fungus, bacteria, cracked heels, and hangnails. And the best part is that you can do it yourself, on-the-go, in very little time.
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