Soap Making Fragrance Oil

About Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy is the practice of using pure essential oils to promote an enhanced sense of wellbeing. People have been practicing aromatherapy for thousands of years, but there has recently been a renewed interest in using aromatherapy to create personal care products that offer added therapeutic benefits.

If you are interested in learning more about how your can use soap making fragrance oil for aromatherapy, check out the following helpful websites:

• Aroma Web
• A World of Aromatherapy
• Aromatherapy: Taking Charge of Your Health

You may also want to consider adding these books to your reference library:

• The Aromatherapy Bible: The Definitive Guide to Using Essential Oils by Gill Farrer-Halls
• Aromatherapy A-Z: The Most Comprehensive Guide to Aromatherapy Ever Published by Patricia Davis
• The Essential Oils Book: Creating Personal Blends for Mind & Body by Colleen K. Dodt

Buying Soap Making Fragrance Oil

Soap making fragrance oil and other supplies needed to make your own aromatherapy soaps can be purchased online from the following websites:

• Sweet Cakes
• Snowdrift Farm
• Bramble Berry
• Cranberry Lane
• TLC Soaps & Sundries

When buying fragrances for soap making, it’s important to read the labels carefully. The label “soap making fragrance oil” is often used as a generic term, but you’ll need to purchase pure essential oils to achieve the maximum therapeutic benefits from your handmade soaps. Essential oils are derived directly from plants, while fragrance oils are synthetically created scents.

Making Aromatherapy Soap

The easiest way to use soap making fragrance oil is to follow a pre-designed recipe to create your own scented aromatherapy soap. You can find a variety of recipes on the following websites:

• Castile Soap Recipes
• Soap Crafters
• Ponte Vedra
• Pine Meadows

Once you’ve gained some experience in the basics of making aromatherapy soap, you can try blending essential oils to create your own unique products. For example:

• Jasmine, sandalwood, rose, and ylang-ylang are common ingredients in aromatherapy products intended for use as aphrodisiacs.
• Lavender is a calming scent that can be used to relieve headaches, promote relaxation, and treat insomnia.
• Lemon, grapefruit, ginger, and peppermint are said to help boost energy levels and enhance concentration.
• Patchouli, mandarin, and neroli can be used to help relieve stress.

Once you’ve decided what type of scent to add to your homemade soap, it’s time to choose a color for your creation. While many people choose to use synthetic dyes to color their homemade soaps, coloring your aromatherapy soap with natural ingredients creates a product that is uniquely beautiful. Common natural colorants using in making soap include:

• Red/pink: beet root, cochineal powder, Moroccan red clay, rose pink clay
• Orange: carrots, paprika, pumpkin
• Yellow: ground calendula petals, ground chamomile, curry powder, saffron
• Green: alfalfa, cucumber, chlorophyll, henna, kelp
• Purple: madder root, alkanet, rattanjot
• Brown: cloves, cocoa powder, coffee grounds, elderberries, cinnamon, comfrey root, goat’s milk
• White: kaolin clay, poppy seeds, titanium dioxide
• Grey: ground pumice

Making Complimentary Aromatherapy Products

After you’ve discovered how much fun it is to use soap making fragrance oil to create your own aromatherapy soaps, you may want to try creating other complimentary beauty products. If you’ve mastered the basics of soap making, the following projects are fairly easy to complete:

• Body lotion
• Bath salt
• Massage oil
• Bath bombs

Candle making is also a great complimentary craft for soap makers. You can create homemade candles in scents to match your soaps—making one-of-a-kind gifts for friends and family.