Last month I posted about how much I love making new things - especially with herbs and essential oils. I thought that I would share how I made the solid perfume. It was actually pretty easy, but timing was everything. I literally had 3 seconds to pour the perfume into the containers before it started to cool down and harden.
First you blend together your base oils and beeswax.... then slowly heat until everything is melted together.
I mixed together my essential oils while the beeswax was melting. For this batch I made an amazing cinnamon and sweet orange scent.
Let the beeswax mixture cool every-so-slightly before adding the fragrance. If you mix them together too soon, the heat will "kill" a lot of the fragrance.
After mixing *very* thoroughly, pour mixture into containers. I like using both tins and "chapstick" tubes. It's that simple!
I wasn't able to get photos of the rest of the steps because as I said above, I had about 3 seconds :)
I can't wait to try some new fragrance blends. I'm going to be experimenting with vanilla and lime!
That first picture seriously looks like garlic if you don't read the wording first... my first thought was, "GARLIC perfume?!?! Okaaaaay...." :-)
ReplyDeleteSo do you use it like chapstick, or you just put it in the tube for easy application like a regular perfume?