perfume tutorial with recycled glass container

Everyone enjoys scent. It hits of primitive reptilian brain in such an amazing way. Smell links us to our childhood and is the sense that I believe is the strongest.
Solid perfume is a perfume with an ingredient in it that keeps it stiff, solid perfume holds up better in warm bathrooms, doesn't spill easily, has a good feel on your skin and rubs into your skin very fast. This solid perfume is easy to make and only requires ingredients you either have at home or you can easily get at the health food store or online. In honor of our mother earth I used recycled containers for my solid perfume. Just make sure you wash it out really well or your sandalwood perfume might become sandalwood anchovy perfume and I don't think thats what you're looking for.

You'll need:
1 small clean jar
beeswax 1 inch cube or candelilla wax 1/2 inch cube
a couple of tablespoons oil of choice (olive oil, coconut oil, etc.)
essential oil of choice, I highly recommend getting the highest quality you can.
a sauce pan
two cup sized mason jars, one for oil one for wax

First wash your area, really. Get out the CLEAN container your going to reuse for you perfume jar. The container should be easy for you to reach into and the mouth not to small. I used a recycled anchovy container.

Get out your beeswax, I used a 1 inch square piece, if you're vegan or the recipient of your solid perfume is vegan use half as much candelilla wax. Place the wax in a mason jar then place the mason jar in a sauce pan on the stove making a sort of double boiler. Add a little water to the pan, enough to cover the sides of the mason jar but not so much that the water will fill the mason jar. If water does touch the beeswax don't worry. Just pour it out before the wax melts. MELTED WAX WILL BURN YOU!!!

Use a tong! Melted wax burns! Use caution!

Add 1 Tablespoon of the oil of your choice to the melted beeswax. I used Olive but you can use coconut, olive, jojoba, rice bran, which ever you have. Please don't use animal fat like butter or lard or any kind of margarine as they will go rancid and ruin your product. That just doesn't sound good. Slowly combine the melted wax and oil in on of the mason jars. Stir and pour the oil and wax base into your reused perfume jar and stir it a little. Don't fill it to the very top.  You want to leave enough room for the essential oil.  If the wax cools too quickly for you to add the essential oil just reheat the oil and wax base in the double boiler for a minute.

remelted beeswax and oil in a double boiler set up.

Stir a little bit letting it cool ever so slightly, then add the essential oils of your choice. Depending on how strong you want your solid perfume use between 20 and 80 drops of essential oil. I used a couple of different kinds. Use ones that you really like the scent of or let the aromatherapist in you out and go with something like lavender for relaxation or say geranium for steadiness and depression.

After letting it cool if your solid perfume is too solid melt it again using the double boiler method and add a tiny bit more oil. How much of each ingredient varies slightly.


Your solid perfume is done! Yay you! It takes 20-30 minutes to cool completely. You can put it in the refrigerator to speed up this process. You'll be able to feel when its cool enough to use the perfume also becomes firm, opaque and smooth. Use solid perfume like you would any other perfume.

Perfume made with essential oils and other scents made from real things and NOT in a lab, evaporates faster on your skin or in the air then lab made perfumes. The scent of essential oil perfumes also sticks closer to you making perfume a more private thing then the lab made scents that get shared with everyone in the room.

and finally if you have any questions or anything else go here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/MayaMade/304846675233
and ask away or leave a comment.




www.mountainroseherbs.com for the items you might need to buy, but look around first, you probably don't need to buy anything.