Q&A: Can I make up batches of product and scent it later? How do I do that? And a disclaimer on how much fragrance oil to use in a formula!

Original post from November 16, 2010… An e-mail question came in asking this question…Can I make up batches of lotion and scent them later? What about things like body wash? The answer to this is simple. Yes. I’ll make up a large batch of lotion with all the ingredients, except the fragrance oils, and store...

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Last minute, easy, and festively impressive Christmas crafting: Creating reed diffusers (plus #alltheingredients: NATRA Reed Diffuser base

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Smell Ho! Let’s talk about fragrance & essential oils: Other things to consider when shopping for or using fragrance oils (part four)

Welcome back to part four – the final part – of this short series on using fragrance and essential oils! In part one, we took a look at some things to consider when using fragrance and essential oils, and how much we might use in a product. In part two, we took a look at...

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Smell Ho! Let’s talk about fragrance & essential oils: Working with IFRA maximum skin exposure levels with a few different fragrance oils – includes downloadable cheat sheet for categories

Welcome back to part three of this short series on using fragrance and essential oils. In part one, we took a look at some things to consider when using fragrance and essential oils, and how much we might use in a product. In part two, we took a look at the IFRA, their maximum skin...

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Smell Ho! Let’s talk about fragrance & essential oils: IFRA maximum skin exposure levels

Welcome back to part two of this short series on using fragrance and essential oils. Yesterday, we took a look at some things to consider when using fragrance and essential oils, and how much we might use in a product. Today, let’s talk about the IFRA, their maximum skin exposure levels, why those things are,...

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