Room fragrancer recipe?

spirit

Have you seen those glass jar things with some sort of liquid in and sticks poking out the top? I fancied one for my sitting room and was wandering round the garden centre the other day and they were £20 for the smallest and it only lasts a few weeks!

Does anyone know what the liquid is? it looks like some kind of oil with the essential oils in and then you have the sticks - or wicks I suppose they are to diffuse the fragrance. Blowed if I'm paying that for them and wondered if anyone knows what the oil is they use as I'd like to make up my own - hopefully for a lot less than the shops charge?

Mrs_P_Pincher

I love these, but I only ever buy them from T K Maxx where they should be a tenner or less. The one in my bedroom has been going for a couple of years now, but the container isn't glass, in fact it's metal and it looks like a Brasso can! Presumably that slows the rate of evaporation.

I guess you could make your own with a pretty container, some barbecue skewers, a carrier oil and some essential oil. Someone will come on and tell us which is the most 'neutral' oil.

Mrs P P

Gigervamp

The ingredients are most likely, dipropylene glycol which is a solvent, and fragrance oil. The sticks are often bamboo or rattan.

I thought I'd seen the reeds at a UK soapmaking supplier but I can't find them now.
However, this US seller sells them and has some information about making them on the site:
http://www.thesage.com/catalog/Accessories.html#DiffuserReeds&Bottles

craftlady

Saw these in Wilkinsons - sure they were round the £5 mark. Buy it - use it - check the ingredients - them make your own refill:D

Bunny200

heres an instructable on how to make one
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organic_wanabe

I just sprinkle a little essential oil (or sometimes a free perfume sample!) on my radiators to get a lovely fragrance.

Lilith1980

spirit wrote: »

Have you seen those glass jar things with some sort of liquid in and sticks poking out the top? I fancied one for my sitting room and was wandering round the garden centre the other day and they were £20 for the smallest and it only lasts a few weeks!

Does anyone know what the liquid is? it looks like some kind of oil with the essential oils in and then you have the sticks - or wicks I suppose they are to diffuse the fragrance. Blowed if I'm paying that for them and wondered if anyone knows what the oil is they use as I'd like to make up my own - hopefully for a lot less than the shops charge?

I got one out of Tesco the other week and it was £6 - although you probably could make it for less than that yourself

tracyk

I saw them for sale in Netto in last night & I'm sure they were only £2.99...