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Help - What an I do with essential oils?
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pinkypig
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Hi everyone
I am hoping that you resourceful folk can help me out. When decluttering my kitchen drawers I found a few odds and ends of nice smelling oils and 1 bottle of essential oil from the days when i had oil burners. The oil burners are long since gone but I am not sure what to do with the leftover oil. Can you make your own fabric fresher or something?
An ideas would be gratefully received
PP xx
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I am hoping that you resourceful folk can help me out. When decluttering my kitchen drawers I found a few odds and ends of nice smelling oils and 1 bottle of essential oil from the days when i had oil burners. The oil burners are long since gone but I am not sure what to do with the leftover oil. Can you make your own fabric fresher or something?
An ideas would be gratefully received
PP xx
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Firstly give it a sniff - essential oils can and do go off so if it is very old it may not smell nice!.
To make a scented room spray/fabric refresher, put 1/3 cheap vodka, 2/3 distilled (I used boiled) water and enough drops of essential oil to smell nice. The vodka makes the oil disperse in the water.
I sometimes put a few drops on a facecloth in the tumble drier to make clothes smell good.
Also, a few drops on a tissue (or cloth) put on the radiator makes the room smell lovely.
A couple of drops in the airing cupboard and car.
I don't know what oil it is, but if it is suitable for skin, mix a few drops in milk (disperses the oil) and use in a bath. You cannot do this with all oils though so check first.
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Lavender pure oil can be used direct in skin, where others can't, so can be added to facecreams to revive them, or to basic E45 to create a nice smelling skin cream
The life of the oil is about 2 years so if any older will be deteriorating but still smell okish - if it is lavender that you've got, can soak strips of fabric and keep in bottom of wardrobe as a moth deterrentYou never know how far-reaching something good, that you may do or say today, may affect the lives of others tomorrow0 -
If you have any half used bars of soap grate them with a cheese grater, add a couple of drops of essential oil and form into balls, then leave to dry. I've done this with teatree oil, I call it snowball soap
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Also if you put them in a box and tie with ribbon, snowball soap is a nice gift idea. I have given them to friends for Christmas in the past and they were very well received. Plus they cost very little and are quite therapeutic to make #84 Make £2020 in 2020 challenge
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You can use them to refresh sachets and drawer liners, put them in the bottom of the shower when you have a cold (some are more suited to this than others) use them to refresh potpourri/dried flowers and all sorts of things. However, be careful with anything that might touch your skin--i.e. ironing water, bath water etc. even those generally safe can cause reactions in some, so just do a test first. I made a lovely linen spray with lavender oil once and had a reaction to using it on my sheets.:o0
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Put a few drops on a tissue or cotton wool ball and put it into the bag of your vaccuum cleaner. This will deoderise all your carpets and make the room smell lovely too.0
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Thank you all so much :T
I've had a sniff and it smells really nice so I am assuming it is still OK. I am going to make sure it is put to good use. Thanks again,
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If you have kids, lavender and tea tree are great for deterring nits. I make up a wee spray bottle with about a teaspoon of conditioner, a cup or so of water and about 4 or 5 drops of essential oil. I spray my wee one's hair every day before school and she never gets nits now. And it's cheaper than buying detangling spray!Father Ted: Now concentrate this time, Dougal. These
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I think I'd be tempted to look for a new oil burner in the pound shop....I'm pretty sure that's where mine came from, & I'm currently using up all my old essential oils in it before I'm allowing myself to buy any more room scenting products of any kind.2025's challenges: 1) To fill our 10 Savings Pots to their healthiest level ever
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