How To Make Oil Diffusers

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Oil diffusers fill your space with a mellow, sweet scent by using bamboo or wood skewers to draw the fragrant oil up the reed and releasing the scent into the room. With these, there is no need to use unnatural aerosol sprays, light candles or plugin air fresheners.

Oil diffusers are simple and inexpensive to make with just a few common products, and they last a long time. They can be decorative as well as fragrant, and you can recycle your decorative glass bottles. Here is the tutorial:

Materials Needed:

• Small glass bottle with a narrow neck (1/2 the length or less of the diffuser reeds) - the more narrow the neck the better as this will force the oils to travel up the reeds to diffuse their scent rather than evaporating up through the neck
• 1/4 C. Carrier oil
• Essential oil of choice
• Splash of vodka
• Diffuser reeds (available at most craft and hobby stores, although bamboo skewers from grocery stores work just as well)

Instructions:

1. Pour carrier oil into the glass bottle.
2. Add 12 drops essential oil.
3. Add vodka to the oil mixture
4. Place the reeds in the oil mixture, and let them sit for one hour.
5. Remove reeds, turn them upside down, and stick the opposite ends into the oil.
6. Rotate the ends of the reeds or skewers once each week to refresh and prolong the fragrance.