Ah, the scents of fall! If you are a big fan of essential oils, fall is a great time to incorporate them more into your life. Body/beauty products are a great way to start. You can make your own blends using cinnamon and ginger, or adding more woodsy scents like fir and eucalyptus. These products are easy to make yourself and have a lot of room to be customized.
Here’s an expanded list of scents for you to consider alone or in combinations this fall: Cinnamon, Lemon, Sweet Orange, Fir, Eucalyptus, Clove, Vanilla, Tea Tree, Rosemary, Peppermint, Pine, Frankincense, and Bergamot.
Try these as beginning scent combinations to achieve the essential oil blends you want:
Pumpkin Spice – For a pumpkin spice blend, try combing clove oil with nutmeg and cinnamon. This is a very basic blend of scents that tend to smell just like pumpkin spice.
Fall Air – For a blend that smells like those warm fall evening walks outdoors, try fir or eucalyptus with sweet orange and your choice of spices, like either nutmeg or clove.
Autumn Spice – Another spice combination is more heavily spiced with cinnamon, plus some sweetness added to the mix. This autumn spice can have cinnamon oil, along with clove, vanilla, and sweet orange or lemon.
Play around with the different essential oils until you come up with blends you love for the fall season. Use your blends in a diffuser so that it smells just like fall in your home every day.
In addition, try these and other DIY Bath/Body products:
Pumpkin Scrub
Who doesn’t love a good body scrub? It helps to scrub away the dead skin cells and leave behind soft, smooth skin. For a pumpkin scrub, start with white table sugar, add some coconut oil that is melted, vanilla extract, and the same amount of pumpkin pie spice. Mix it together and use it just like any other body scrub. It will smell like pumpkin pie or pumpkin spice lattes.
Apple Bath Salts
Add the scent of freshly-baked apple pie to your bath! It will be both relaxing and add some natural exfoliation. Start with Epsom salt, then add in your scents. You can combine apple and cinnamon scents on your own, or just get apple pie blends that are already mixed. To add color, you might use some powdered food coloring. Mix it all together and add to a jar for storage.
Fall Candles
Candles and fall just go together! Making your own candles with your desired essential oil scents can be especially enjoyable. You can use one scent per candle or combine any scents you choose.
Start with a good base, which can be beeswax or soy flakes. Melt the wax in a metal container and add your preferred scents – clove, ginger, cinnamon, and vanilla are good basics to use alone or in combinations. Put the scented wax in a container with a wick. *
Besides using them in your own bathroom, kitchen, or living room, these make great gifts for hostesses or general gift-giving.
- Amazon has a great selection of candle-making supplies including kits to make the process easier. Check out what they have here: https://amzn.to/30YqVjg
