How To Use Essential Oil Reeds

Mineral oils like sweet almond oil or safflower oil tend to be the most popular because they re thin enough to travel up the diffuser reeds or bamboo skewers allowing your room to quickly fill.

How to use essential oil reeds. Put 30 drops of essential oils. Close your eyes and deeply inhale the steam for several minutes. 6 bundle the reeds and insert them into the neck of the vase. Stir well until the essential oils and carrier oil are somewhat well dispersed in the alcohol. Flip sticks so that the dry side of the sticks is now closest to the bottle and the saturated end is in the air.

5 pour the oil and alcohol mixture into the vase. 7 fan the reeds out. Place a towel over your head and the bowl. Place the sticks that came with your reed diffuser into the bottle to absorb the diffuser oil. Fill your vessel with your desired carrier oil and then add a few drops of your preferred fragrance or essential oil.

Flip the reeds occasionally for more fragrance. For an effective combination add at least thirty drops of essential oils into your 1 2 cup of carrier oil. If you want to mix two different oils put fifteen drops of each type of oil into the jar. You want to use something like this. If you have a super small jar don t add a full 30 drops.

This is basically melted or liquid coconut oil not cooking oil. Place your diffuser in a high traffic area where the fragrance will spread throughout the room with air circulation. Place your diffuser on a coaster to prevent oil drips from damaging the countertop. 4 use one of the reeds to stir the oil and alcohol mixture. For these diy essential oil reed diffuser recipes i used organic 100 pure fractionated coconut oil.

It is clear non fragrant very light and non greasy. Dip a few reeds into the vessel so that they can absorb the diffuser oil then flip the reeds so that the dry ends sit into the vessel and the saturated ends are open to the air.