POPULAR ESSENTIAL OILS FOR SOAP MAKING

Making your own melt & pour soap is a rewarding and fulfilling process. Making your own soap also allows you to know what exactly goes in your soap and onto your skin.When you make your own soaps, you get to select the essential oils that suits your skin.  

You can never go wrong when you include these top 3 essential oils into your soap making recipe:

 Lavender Essential Oil

Lavender Essential Oil is a popular essential oil. It is used in beauty products and even cleaning products. It is an anti-inflammatory and an antiseptic. It helps with cuts and skin irritations. It also promotes relaxation, which in this busy world we live in today is very important since stress can cause early aging signs on the skin.

Tea Tree Essential Oil

Tea Tree Essential Oil is also an antiseptic. Tea Tree oil can only be found in Australia. It is an essential oil that may be applied directly to the afflicted person. There are very few oils which can. The oil works to cure fungal infections and can help with insect bites. It also helps repel insects from making a meal out of you. 

Clove Oil Essential Oil

Clove Essential Oil comes from a flower on an evergreen tree. Clove oil helps with cuts, bruises, and infections. It is also used for bug bites and for boosting the immune system. Like Lavender Essential Oil, Clove Essential Oil is great for stress relief.

Essential oils make your soap smells great. But scent aside, what makes them stand apart is the health benefits for the skin. Essential oils not only provide physical benefits, but also psychological and spiritual ones too. 

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ESSENTIAL OIL VS FRAGRANCE OILS

When making soaps or candles, you will always come across two kinds of scent options - essential oils or fragrance oils. 

It's easy to distinguish between the two and it is usually by the price tag. Essential oils are far more costlier than fragrance oils. Here's why: 

Essential Oils

Essential oils are natural and plant extracted. The extraction of these essential oils is an entirely organic process. The plants can be cold pressed, steamed or distilled and the oil is separated from the plants. This helps essential oils retain the ultimate health benefits for the user. 

Pure EssentialOils are used to remedy many ailments. They can help alleviate certain ailments such as headache, cuts, bruises, stress, bug bites, muscle pain, hair loss, rheumatism, emotional problems, skin problems, arthritis, and many more. 

So depending on what you need, there is sure to be an essential oil or a blend of different essential oils that can help you.

For example, taking a moment to smell roses can uplift your mood. So rose essential oils can help uplift your mood, it also improves your complexion when applied to skin in its diluted form. It takes 10,000 roses to fill a 5ml bottle so a good bottle of pure rose oil will never come cheap. 

Lemongrass Oil is great for keeping the bugs away along with Tea Tree Oil and Citronella Oil. Rosemary Essential oil is great for maintaining health hair and dandruff problems. Ylang Ylang is known to treat stress and maintain health skin. The list of benefits goes on and on...

Fragrance Oils

Fragrance oils on the other hand are entirely synthetic and man-made. These fragrance oils lack any natural healing abilities that essential oils have. 

Put simply, fragrance oils merely smell good. Many perfumes are made from this type of oil. They are designed to mimic the scents of natural aromas without its benefits. 

Some fragrance oils do contain certain allergenic chemicals that can cause a reaction when used in skincare so it is best to ask your supplier on the contents. 

Beside being priced cheaper, Fragrance Oils tend to have funkier mixes and non-plant derived names since it is not derived from any plant source. 

No matter what you decide to use, always get your oils from a reputable source. 

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