These easy Christmas soap recipes will lather you up in delicious holiday scents! Crafted with melt and pour soap base and essential oils, these simple, all-natural soap bars are easy to make and ideal for gifting. Read on to learn how to make 3 holiday melt and pour soap recipes in decadent winter scents: sugar …
Bitter Almond Essential Oil
Not to be confused with sweet almond carrier oil, bitter almond essential oil is the incredibly fragrant essential oil expressed from crushed bitter almonds.
It’s especially high in benzaldehyde, the aromatic aldehyde responsible for bitter almond oil’s potent, characteristic marzipan fragrance.
Despite its name, bitter almond essential oil smells delightfully sweet and sugary, with notes of marzipan, candy, and cherries.
It adds a sugary quality to essential oil blends. In fact, bitter almond could be called the essential oil that smells like sugar.
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Learn how to make cotton candy perfume. With notes of tonka bean, vanilla, and pink sugar, this sugary-sweet DIY perfume recipe evokes the delicious scents of fresh-spun candy floss. Also discover tips for making designer perfume recipes using essential oils. If you love candy scents, but don’t love the headaches that can accompany artificial fragrances, …
Learn how to make cotton candy essential oil! This sweet-smelling essential oil blend recreates the classic aroma of fresh-spun candy floss. Discover 11 essential oil recipes that smell like cotton candy, including pink vanilla, blue raspberry, and cotton candy cupcake. If you think you can only achieve cotton candy’s sugary-sweet scent with a synthetic fragrance …
Learn how to make lemon body butter for glowing skin! Aside from plain lemon body cream, this easy tutorial also includes 5 DIY body butter recipes that smell like lemon desserts, including lemon sugar cookie, lemon meringue, and lemon pound cake. I love bath and body products that smell like dessert, but I don’t love …
Learn how to make caramel essential oil. Plus, discover 12 other sweet-smelling essential oil blends that smell like caramel treats! Caramel candy, butterscotch cookies, and rich, buttery caramel sauce – not exactly scents we associate with essential oils, right? But what if you could make all these, and more? With the right oils, there’s no …
Learn how to make gumdrop essential oil + several other candy essential oil blends! These fun EO recipes smell like sweet, sugary gumdrops. Discover 12 flavors of gumdrop candy scents and a special gumdrop cookie fragrance blend. Also includes free printable labels. To me, essential oil blends that smell like candy and baked goods are …
Learn how to make sugar plum perfume. Fruity, gourmand, and intensely sweet, this easy essential oil perfume recipe evokes the sugary scents of candy, plums, and holiday baking. What comes to mind when you imagine the scent of sugar plums? Sugar, spice, and everything nice? Candied fruit, nuts and spices? Or maybe you mistakenly believe …
Learn how to make sugar plum essential oil. Sugary and fruity, this festive blend is made with a unique combination of essential oils for a magical holiday fragrance. Also includes free printable labels! Gingerbread, candy canes, eggnog and sugar cookies – these are just a few of the classic holiday scents we associate with the …
Learn how to make sugar cookie essential oil! This sugary, delicious-smelling blend is the closest you can get to the aroma of freshly baked sugar cookies. An essential oil blend that smells like cookies? Yes, it really is possible! If you love gourmand scents, this is the blend for you. There’s no need to use …
Learn how to make holiday body scrubs in 4 delicious, festive varieties: Christmas sugar cookie, gingerbread, eggnog and peppermint candy cane. Each sugar scrub is scented with essential oils and makes for a lovely DIY Christmas gift. Looking for a handmade gift idea? Or, maybe you’re in need of a little bit of festive self-care. …
This easy-to-make honey almond soap with wheatgerm both cleanses and gently exfoliates dry skin. Crafted with honey melt and pour soap base, wheatgerm, and bitter almond essential oil, this recipe is intentionally simple. Read on to learn how to make this moisturizing honey almond scented soap recipe which also makes for an affordable handmade gift. …
Create a variety of Christmas room sprays with this easy tutorial. These simple seasonal air freshener sprays are crafted with natural ingredients and essential oils to safely fragrance your home. Read on to learn how to make your own homemade Christmas room sprays, and bring the aromas of the holiday season into every room of …