Homemade
Perfume Ideas
- by KissMeGoodnight.com
There are so many possibilities . . . possibilities
that will fill your home with luxurious scents that are uniquely
yours. Scent, as we all know, invokes memories but it also
affects our mood, our appetite and our erotic desires. Natural
scents like jasmine, lilac, cedar, myrrh, and tuberose, are
just some of your natural options but then there are cinnamon,
fig, orange and many others you already have at home; and,
know it or not, you are already using some of them to create
an aromatic ambience in your home.
What
do people smell when they enter your home? The smells
of cooking? The smells of fresh flowers cut from your garden?
With just a little effort you can add to these pleasant aromatic
treats with some concoctions of your own.
Layering
scents! One technique for dressing up your home in
aromas is layering the scents. For example you can have an
oil burner with an orange or spice scent and then brew a pot
of orange spice tea. Or use the same technique with scented
candles while having a pot or kettle of water simmering with
some compatibly scented oil. Orange is, of course, just one
of the many common scents available, how about vanilla, strawberry
or kiwi or a combination of oils such as a bit of vanilla with
a touch of ginger oil and peach.
Sachets! Here's a technique for creating little packets of
scent for around the house or even in your car: Wrap up chopped
pinecones and spruce or cedar sprigs in a cloth handkerchief
and use a rolling pin to press out the oils. Separate the now
highly scented material into little sachets to create your
scented bundles. Make it a habit to collect fragrant things
like spruce, flower petals and lavender to make these sachets.
Have
you ever heard of a scented sleep pillow? You can make
your own scented sleep pillow with rose petals, other favorite
flower petal, chamomile buds and lavender. Mix these all up
and sew them up into mini-pillow that you keep nearby when
you sleep -- pleasant dreams!
Just a couple more tips! Vanilla
extract has a pleasant scent
and just a touch of it on your wrists will allow you to carry
that scent around the house with you. Another practical use
for the power of the vanilla scent is to create a hand soaking
solution out of milk and vanilla. If you have been cleaning
fish or working with anything that has left an unpleasant odor
on your hands, soak your hands for a few minutes in this home-made
solution and you'll be free of the bad odor.
Cinnamon
sticks are an old, old favorite. If simmering some
cinnamon in water doesn't take you back to some pleasant memories
it will at least provide some new ones. Invest in a home coffee
grinder -- that is a smell-generator that is, to some people,
worth more than the investment.
Homemade
perfume! Here is a basic homemade perfume recipe
(from Ultimate Cosmetics at: http://www.ultimate-cosmetics.com/beauty/homemade-recipes/perfumes.htm).
You can also find more specific recipes at Ultimate Cosmetics
as well as elsewhere on the Internet.
Ingredients:
1 cup water
1 cup fresh chopped flower blossoms
Directions:
In a bowl place a cheesecloth where the edges are hanging
over the bowl. Fill with 1 cup of flower blossoms of your choice.
Pour water over the flowers until they are completely covered.
Cover and let sit overnight. The next day using the edges of
cheesecloth pull it out of the bowl and gently squeeze the
scented water into a small pot. Simmer the water until about
1 teaspoon is left. Cool and place into a small bottle. Making
perfume this way has a shelf life of about 1 month.
Some suggestions for flowers are : Lavender, lilac, orange
blossoms or even honeysuckle. Anything that has a scent you
love and is, at the same time highly fragrant, will work best
for you.
A note about aromatherapy! Aromatherapy is today's new thing!
Aromatherapy is , essentially, the use of aromas to create
positive changes in your health and sense of well being. Think
about these statistics: If you hurt yourself it may take up
to 12 seconds to feel the pain. If you encounter a scent, it
takes about 5 seconds for it to register in your brain. That
might suggest something to you about the power of scent and
the practical possibilities of aromatherapy.
Aromatherapy uses “essential oils,” as opposed to the “fragrance
oils” that are typically used to imbue your home with your
scent of choice. Inhaling, bathing with or misting these essential
oils allow them to relax you, relieve your common headaches,
improve your mood, give you more energy and even assist you,
indirectly, with loosing weight. Those may seem like some pretty
amazing claims but there are many who swear that they are valid
claims. It must be said that aromatherapy works better for
some people than it does for others because some people are
more open to its possibilities than others.
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KissMeGoodnight.com
: 2006
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