Let me introduce you to essential oils

I love essential oils so much, You can even make your own with a copper distill. After distilling the plant matter, you've gained hydrolate. For example many of us know rosewater or orange blossom water, those are hydrolates. Then you fill this hydrolate in brown glass bottles that have a very narrow bottle neck. You let it sit for several weeks until all the essential oil ascends to the top and then you can transfer it with a glass pipette. For 1l hydrolate you really only get a few pipettes or drops, depending on the plant and the quality/efficiency of extraction.

Some plants contain more essential oil than others, for example for flowers like rose or jasmine essential oil, you need an astronomical amount of roses to get a flask, which makes it more expensive. Whereas others, like from the mint, citrus, grass or pine family, bear a higher concentration and hence you need less plant matter and can buy the essential oils for a comparatively lower price.

As you can see, they are highly concentrated, so you have to know how to dosage each and the quality you buy matters alot. There are many fakes out there, and non-organic vs organic also has a huge impact on the properties and therefore also the scent. For example I have noticed it in types like lavender, eucalyptus and rose geranium. In fact, lavender essential oil is one of the highest adulterated oils on the market. They get diluted with the synthetic lavandin, which smells stronger, however misses the medicinal properties (!).

There are thick musty essential oils like patchouli, where you only need the tiniest as the scent lingers very long. So perfect for parfume, oils and creams. Then there are light ones like lemon, grapefruit, mandarin, citronella etc that evaporate quickly and the scent doesn't linger for long, which makes them perfect for cleaning. Some of these citrus oils also help to remove stubborn oil-smears from surfaces like the kitchen vent.

Other essential oils have a warming and blood pumping effect like rosemary, eucalyptus, cinnamon leaf, wintergreen etc and are perfect for bathing salts and massage oil. While others are cooling like mint.

Essential oils are used as medicine, for example oregano oil is a natural antibiotic, you dilute 2-4 drops with a tbsp of pumpkin seed oil and swallow it with water. Paired with a binder like bentonite, zeolith, psyllium husk or charcoal for a certain timeframe like 3-6 weeks. It has helped me and my family alot.

The thing with essential oils is that they enter your blood stream within seconds when in contact with your skin, that makes them so potent. In fact, they can even be meassured in a person's breath within a minute timespan of getting in contact with it.

So you have to be careful around babies and animals. For example, never use eucalyptus essential oil around babies! It can give them a violent cough and breathing issues. Also never use citrus oils around cats, it can make them very sick.

However, if you know the right ratio, essential oils are amazing and have so many benefits whether for health, cosmetic, and cleaning purposes or simply to set the mood. 🫶🌿✨️