Vanilla Essential Oil Uses: For Wholesale Purposes
Vanilla Essential Oil Uses For Aromatherapists
Most pertinent of the vanilla essential oil uses must be as a base note fixative that brings a radiant warmth to any blend. When we add vanilla we bring relaxation, sleep, seduction, and a touch of luxury.
As aromatherapists, we understand the power of scent, but sometimes we can be so fixated on properties and benefits we forget what a powerful magic carpet to the past, it can be, and probably no other compound does this better than vanilla essential oil.
Think about Christmas, and cinnamon and cloves come to mind, orange and ginger maybe. Red roses are valentines and freesias the fragrance of spring. But Vanilla essential oil has a rather special place in the mind. For the lucky children, it is birthday cakes, being surrounded by love and attention. The center of celebration and the delight of a pile of presents.
Vanilla essential oil takes you to the place where you are everything. As the song says “Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away up on the chimney tops…”
It’s a place where healing takes place, and stress melts away. Vanilla essential oil benefits are best reserved for special times, where mom needs a treat, or dad’s masculinity is wearing away. For when life kicks you, divorce, grief, redundancy....or just everyday life has just become a tedious grind.
Vanilla essential oil is your birthday every day….without the worry of the age number climbing any higher!
TIPS FOR USING VANILLA ESSENTIAL OIL FOR DIFFUSER BLENDS
Vanilla essential oil’s benefits make it a wonderful choice for diffusers, but its viscosity is extremely dense that can make it difficult for the molecules to evaporate, and can be problematic to your actual machine.
Always dilute vanilla essential oil into a thin carrier such as grapeseed oil first, to thin it and help it diffuse. Its base note scent is so rich and radiant it is actually improved by dilution, allowing some of the lighter components to come through.
IS VANILLA ESSENTIAL OIL SAFE FOR DOGS AND CATS
A soothing base note, vanilla essential oil makes a lovely nurturing sedative to use on nights where there are fireworks going off. Dilute down to > 0.5% ( 1 drop of vanilla essential oil into a tablespoon of carrier oil will calm them, and hopefully get them off to sleep. Rub on their tummies, or onto the insides of their ears. Anywhere, where there is not too much hair to get through. Although Vanilla oleoresins are not food grade, it won’t hurt them at all to lick at them, because of course, if they have sweet tooths, it will be a fragrance they know.
Vanilla Essential Oil For Skin
As previously stated, vanilla essential oil contains vanillin proven to have perwerlly anti-oxidant effects. Antioxidants fight free radicals in the skin that lead to cell oxidation and premature aging, however, there are many oils better served for skincare, that would love vanilla essential oil as their second in command.
Rose absolute nourishes newly formed skin cells as they head towards the surface layer. Rose and vanilla is a gorgeous mix, as is geranium and vanilla essential oil.
Wood oils like cedarwood Virginian or sandalwood are delicious for men’s blends and again both blend brilliantly with vanilla essential oil.
Vanilla Essential Oil Benefits For Soap Makers
Using Vanilla essential oil in soap does come with some notes.
Importantly, vanillin discolors, so you will find that your soap goes brown as soon as the vanillin encounters air. It’s actually quite a pretty color, but it changes as the days pass. The more oil you use, the darker the color. 1% dilution will give you a kind of golden caramel color to 3% is a rich espresso hue.
For Melt and Pour, you may find you want to add a Vanilla Color stabilizer in a 1:1 ratio with the amount of essential oil you use, however, this has inconsistent results with the Cold Process. Titanium Dioxide will lighten light discoloration if you have low dilutions of vanilla essential oil in a Cold Process soap.
I can’t imagine you need reminding, but some of the best natural blending ingredients, All like cocoa or coffee, also have a brownish hue, of course.
