Use Essential Oils to Add Natural Holiday Fragrance to Your Home

What Are Essential Oils?

Essential oils are physically extracted and distilled from natural plant materials, such as the rind, leaves, and flowers. They are very concentrated and chemically complex, made up of dozens of known components — and even more unknown components. Many of these have therapeutic, antiseptic, and fragrant properties.

Makes sure they are Pure Essential Oils

Natural Food Stores are the place to purchase them.

How to Diffuse Essential Oils

One of the easiest ways to diffuse a holiday essential oil is to place several drops in a small saucepan of boiling water. If you live in the cold, this has the added benefit of warming and humidifying the air.

You may want to use an old pot that you do not use for cooking in case any residual oil remains on the implement afterward.

Metal and clay lightbulb rings can be filled with a small amount of oil and fit on most incandescent bulbs. These release the oil`s scent as they are warmed by the bulb. They are a safe, energy-saving method of scenting a room because they harness wasted heat; however, they do not work with energy saving bulbs.

You may also mix several drops of essential oil into a clean spritzer bottle of fresh water. Buy an empty bottle from the supermarket or hardware store. (Because traces of chemicals may remain, never reuse a spritzer bottle from a commercial cleaner or other household product.) Shake this mixture and spray around your home.

CAUTION: Essential oils are highly concentrated and many are irritating to the skin and other tissues. Some are extremely toxic when taken internally, so do not ingest them. Keep out of reach of children

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