Re: essential substitute

[Guest guest]

Hi Cat.

I found a perfume recipe ton the internet from Pioneer Thinking. It calls

for:

3TBS vodka or Ethyl alcohol 5 drops lavender oil 10 drops chamomille oil 10

drops of valerian essential oil. I don't have any valeriian essential oil.

What would you suggest that I use as a substitute for the valerian oil.

Thanks for your help:

Raven

[Guest guest]

Hi Raven:

I confess I haven't smelled the oil, but if it smells anything like the

root, I'm sure you'd be thankful you didn't have any! The root smells like

sweaty gym socks (let me tell you about the time I stuffed a fabric pillow

with it for the cats to play with...they loved it, but the house reeked!!)

:-Þ

Try substituting sandalwood or rosewood e.o. for a mellow, warm note. For a

nice relaxing scent, use orange, tangerine or petitgrain. Chamomile is a

very strong scent, you might enjoy this blend better by increasing the

lavender e.o. to 10 drops and decreasing the chamomile to 5 drops. Sneak a

bit of vanilla f.o. or absolute in there for a " powdery " note...add a touch

of rose or jasmine for a romantic floral...!

Let me know how it turns out! :-)

Cat

> I found a perfume recipe ton the internet from Pioneer Thinking. It calls

> for:

> 3TBS vodka or Ethyl alcohol 5 drops lavender oil 10 drops chamomille oil

10

> drops of valerian essential oil. I don't have any valeriian essential oil.

> What would you suggest that I use as a substitute for the valerian oil.

[Guest guest]

Hi Cat;

Thanks for the information. I will go to the drugstore in the near future so

see if I can get any Ethel Alcohol. You used to be able to get it off the

shelf, but the last time that I bought any, which was a long time ago you

had to ask the pharmist for it and it was about $5.00 for a small bottle

that he filled. The E.A will probally work better than the vodka and the

substituttions you gave me sound wonderful.

Thanks again:

Raven

[Guest guest]

Hi Raven:

Be careful of the denaturant that is used in the alcohol...some smell

terrible and will ruin a delicate perfume. Grades 39C, 40C are recommended

for perfumery. If you are able to get grain alcohol at the liquor store, I

would use that.

Good luck!

Cat

> Thanks for the information. I will go to the drugstore in the near future

so

> see if I can get any Ethel Alcohol. You used to be able to get it off the

> shelf, but the last time that I bought any, which was a long time ago you

> had to ask the pharmist for it and it was about $5.00 for a small bottle

> that he filled. The E.A will probally work better than the vodka and the

> substituttions you gave me sound wonderful.

[Guest guest]

Cat, is this the same type of alcohol we are supposed to use to flush out our

pippettes when using e.o.'s? So far, I have only needed to use 2 pippettes(the

rest of the bottles have built in droppers). I have used soap and hot water and

flushed, flushed, flushed with clean hot water, as well as using the same one

for each oil.

Thanks, Leanna in Alberta.

Cat wrote:

> Hi Raven:

> Be careful of the denaturant that is used in the alcohol...some smell

> terrible and will ruin a delicate perfume. Grades 39C, 40C are recommended

> for perfumery. If you are able to get grain alcohol at the liquor store, I

> would use that.

> Good luck!

> Cat

>

> > Thanks for the information. I will go to the drugstore in the near future

> so

> > see if I can get any Ethel Alcohol. You used to be able to get it off the

> > shelf, but the last time that I bought any, which was a long time ago you

> > had to ask the pharmist for it and it was about $5.00 for a small bottle

> > that he filled. The E.A will probally work better than the vodka and the

> > substituttions you gave me sound wonderful.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

hi had trouble finding ethyl alcohol here in LA until i came

across it at a chemistry shop!

here is the the URL: http://www.tri-esssciences.com/

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>Hi Cat;

>Thanks for the information. I will go to the drugstore in the near future so

>see if I can get any Ethel Alcohol. You used to be able to get it off the

>shelf, but the last time that I bought any, which was a long time ago you

>had to ask the pharmist for it and it was about $5.00 for a small bottle

>that he filled. The E.A will probally work better than the vodka and the

>substituttions you gave me sound wonderful.

>Thanks again:

>Raven

[Guest guest]

> hi had trouble finding ethyl alcohol here in LA until i came

> across it at a chemistry shop!

> here is the the URL: http://www.tri-esssciences.com/

Is the ethyl alcohol the kind that I could use in perfume making. I went

into the site you listed and it is listed in the cosmetic making section but

it also has isopropyl alcohol listed also. I know that is rubbing alcohol

and not suitable for perfume making.

Thanks for your help:

Raven

[Guest guest]

Hi Leanna:

I use plain old 91% rubbing alcohol to rinse my eyedroppers after washing

them in hot soapy water. I save the more expensive alcohol for my perfume

base!

The alcohol I mean has a low-odor denaturant in it so it doesn't interfere

with the delicate scent of the perfume oils added to it.

Cat >^-.-^<

> Cat, is this the same type of alcohol we are supposed to use to flush out

our

> pippettes when using e.o.'s? So far, I have only needed to use 2

pippettes(the

> rest of the bottles have built in droppers). I have used soap and hot

water and

> flushed, flushed, flushed with clean hot water, as well as using the same

one

> for each oil.