I'm trying to figure out what kind of base oil to use to make my own. The bottles sold can't possibly be solid essential oil, so i'm thinking something like plain vegetable oil as the base with a blend of essential oils. The last one I bought was very oily and definitely didn't have any alcohol in it.
I already have the bottles and the reeds...
I already have the bottles and the reeds...
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Re: Anyone ever made Homemade Reed Diffusers?
Wed, January 24, 2007 - 5:40 PMRefined parafin oil would work. any time you go to vegetable oils, you will have a hard time diffusing scent, and frequently vegetable oils just make a nice varnish when they have dried out. -
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Re: Anyone ever made Homemade Reed Diffusers?
Thu, January 25, 2007 - 6:18 AMI always thought that stuff had a scent of it's own, or is it just that it is usually sold with a scent additive? -
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Re: Anyone ever made Homemade Reed Diffusers?
Thu, January 25, 2007 - 2:54 PMThats why you want refined (which for indoor use, look until you find one that is odorless). When it is not refined for odorlessness, then it definetly has an odor of its own. Usually one should be able to find it in stores that sell decorative oil lamps for indoor ambience. The other thing one could try would be di-propolene glycol (this is called 'cutting oil' for the cheap synthetic incense making) and this should be carried by suppliers for incense oils and makings. -
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Re: Anyone ever made Homemade Reed Diffusers?
Thu, January 24, 2008 - 9:48 AMYou can make homemade reed diffusers with sweet almond carrier oil (its a light carrier oil that will easily wick up the reeds and won't clog the celluar sections in the reeds) and then, add your own custom blend of essential oils or use a single essential oil. Essential oils evaporate like a gas but mixed with sweet almond base oil it will hold its scent upon your reeds. You will just need to allow the essential oils and the base oil to soak the end of the reeds, and then flip them periodically. This will offer great therapeutic properties.
If you wish to use fragrance oils for your homemade project, you will have to add alcohol (like vodka or perfume) so the heavy fragrance oils can mix together to make a blend. The alcohol will make the reed diffuser more potent and stronger than using essential oils. There is no therapeutic properties using this method though. -
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Re: Anyone ever made Homemade Reed Diffusers?
Thu, January 24, 2008 - 6:40 PMI have never seen a diffuser oil that was made entirely from naturals. I wish there was such a thing, but the diffuser dilutent needs to have a really low viscosity to wick properly. Also, you would have to allow for the viscosity of the fragrance or essential oils, so that something like citrus would wick well but a heavy oil like vetiver would not unless diluted alot.
If you were to use almost oil you could coat the stick and it would smell good if you kept turning it but I doubt it would truly wick the fluid correctly with getting gummy.
If you google diffuser supplies you can see that many fragrance craft places carry the dilutent.
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Re: Anyone ever made Homemade Reed Diffusers?
Tue, June 3, 2008 - 9:09 PMYup, I have. I made these mini ones, because I wasn't into those big ugly bottles they sell in department stores. Have a look at this: www.bottledupemotions.com.au/index.php
