If you have always wanted to make your own perfume,and you don't know the homemade perfume essential oils, then this is the right post you should read and if what you want is to learn how to make homemade perfume for kids, you will find this post very helpful.
In this post you will also know the important homemade perfume ingredients to make good and lasting perfume.
Apparatus needed for making home made perfume:
Mixing chamber (e.g beaker, containers etc), Filter, test tubes, Measuring cylinder, Pressure containers.
Chemicals/ingredients needed in making homemade perfume:
Raw perfume/ Essential oils, Alcohol (ethanol, methanol etc), Distilled water.
Method:
Row perfumes or essential oils of your choice are all available in the market e.g 212 for men, vanilla, bakhur, miyake, Casablanca, etc
there are three types of notes when it comes to making perfumes.
Base note.
Middle note
top note
these depend on how long the lasting effect of the perfume.
Buy any raw perfume from any reliable chemical stores, base note could last for 2 hours or more on the body.
Perfume company normally uses cedar wood, cinnamon patchouli, sandalwood and vanilla in making a product. Some example of middle note raw perfumes or essential oils are bottle nut meg, geranium, neroli and yang-ylang. While the raw perfumes or essential oil needed to make top notch are bergamot and lavender etc.
The different note will never workout on their own without another note known as the bridge note.
This note helps to blend the various scents together making the whole perfume work. Some example of the bridge notes are litsea cubeba, lavender and lemongrass etc. When you search for these oil you will see more of them to choose from.
Now you must be wondering if it's possible to use all three note to make a perfume, THE ANSWER IS A PLAIN YES.
This is what you need to do, You can add add few drops of each of the raw perfume or essential oil you have bought into a test tube in equal rate that 1:1 or 1:2 as you desire.
The drops of the raw perfumes you have added will mix together. Smell it to know if everything is going well now add 57ml of alcohol (ethanol or methanol).
Smelling the product is not the best way to check if it is working prfectly.
To check the perfume, apply small amount on the skin to make sure it does not have any averse reaction or does not affect the skin negatively.
If you follow this instruction carefully then your perfume should be ok and not have any negative effect on the skin.
Note that the drops placed from the essential oils into the ethanol won't even reach halfway point of the test tube. If the smell is still good, this should be stored in a cool place for 48 hours.
After 48hours, mix it with the distilled water and the let it come out through a filter.
Now pour the perfume you have made in a small plastic container with a sprayer on top.
You can use dark container to make the content last longer.
RULE 1: In this method you stored your perfume for 48 hours, the longer you store the perfume before adding distilled water to it, the stronger the smell of the perfume and the more effective it will be.
RULE 2: The process of producing the right scent takes a lot of patience. Sometimes putting more than one type pf not can change everything and you will have to start over. But don't let that discourage you from making your own homemade perfume. You should also know that companies trying to make new products also make these same mistake.
Now let me know how great your perfume is and what note you have used.
In this post you will also know the important homemade perfume ingredients to make good and lasting perfume.
Apparatus needed for making home made perfume:
Mixing chamber (e.g beaker, containers etc), Filter, test tubes, Measuring cylinder, Pressure containers.
Chemicals/ingredients needed in making homemade perfume:
Raw perfume/ Essential oils, Alcohol (ethanol, methanol etc), Distilled water.
Method:
Row perfumes or essential oils of your choice are all available in the market e.g 212 for men, vanilla, bakhur, miyake, Casablanca, etc
there are three types of notes when it comes to making perfumes.
Base note.
Middle note
top note
these depend on how long the lasting effect of the perfume.
Buy any raw perfume from any reliable chemical stores, base note could last for 2 hours or more on the body.
Perfume company normally uses cedar wood, cinnamon patchouli, sandalwood and vanilla in making a product. Some example of middle note raw perfumes or essential oils are bottle nut meg, geranium, neroli and yang-ylang. While the raw perfumes or essential oil needed to make top notch are bergamot and lavender etc.
The different note will never workout on their own without another note known as the bridge note.
This note helps to blend the various scents together making the whole perfume work. Some example of the bridge notes are litsea cubeba, lavender and lemongrass etc. When you search for these oil you will see more of them to choose from.
Now you must be wondering if it's possible to use all three note to make a perfume, THE ANSWER IS A PLAIN YES.
This is what you need to do, You can add add few drops of each of the raw perfume or essential oil you have bought into a test tube in equal rate that 1:1 or 1:2 as you desire.
The drops of the raw perfumes you have added will mix together. Smell it to know if everything is going well now add 57ml of alcohol (ethanol or methanol).
Smelling the product is not the best way to check if it is working prfectly.
To check the perfume, apply small amount on the skin to make sure it does not have any averse reaction or does not affect the skin negatively.
If you follow this instruction carefully then your perfume should be ok and not have any negative effect on the skin.
Note that the drops placed from the essential oils into the ethanol won't even reach halfway point of the test tube. If the smell is still good, this should be stored in a cool place for 48 hours.
After 48hours, mix it with the distilled water and the let it come out through a filter.
Now pour the perfume you have made in a small plastic container with a sprayer on top.
You can use dark container to make the content last longer.
RULE 1: In this method you stored your perfume for 48 hours, the longer you store the perfume before adding distilled water to it, the stronger the smell of the perfume and the more effective it will be.
RULE 2: The process of producing the right scent takes a lot of patience. Sometimes putting more than one type pf not can change everything and you will have to start over. But don't let that discourage you from making your own homemade perfume. You should also know that companies trying to make new products also make these same mistake.
Now let me know how great your perfume is and what note you have used.
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