I always feel a little sad when I finish a bottle of essential oil . . . it quickly goes when I start a new bottle though!

But these little bottles are so useful and so I like to keep them. They can be used put your own blends in, or store your own blends if you have a special blend that you like to make a lot of. They are also great for if you make a blend for a baby and a child that needs to be extra dilute, so you only need a couple of drops of the blend, they are storing them.

You can make up blends and perfumes for friends and family. Or if you are going away and don’t want to take your whole stash of oils, you can put a little in some of these bottles . . . and there is of course, using them a little flower vases (my personal favourite!)


Sometimes you can re-use the bottle without having to wash it out, if your blend includes the original oil from the bottle.

Cleaning out the oils though is not as simple a just rinsing out. It is best to wait till you have a little stash of bottles that need to be cleaned and do them all together.

First put the bottles (I take them all apart, lid and stopper or roller if there is one) and bury them in a container full of Epsom Salts. I put a layer of salts down, fill the bottles with a teaspoon of Epsom Salts, and put them in the container, filling all around them with salts. I also put the lids etc in.


They need to be left for a few days in the salts. The Epsom Salts will absorb every last drop of oil and making me some nice bath salts in the process!

After a few days, take them out of the salts, and leave them soaking in some hot soapy water. A Castile soap works well. Allow them to soak for about 24 hours, then peel off the labels and see if the original scent has gone. If it still smells, then leave to soak for one more day. Make sure they are completely dry before storing them.

I thought I would share with you where I have been the last few months as I have’t really been on here. I have been busy though and my life has taken a bit of a turn that I wasn’t expecting, but I am very excited about!

Back in March I was looking for some natural pain relief for my fibromyalgia and came across a blog where she talked about using essential oil blends and how much they helped her. She explained what she used and how, so I bought a great book on essential oils and aromatherapy, some oils and some bottles and made myself a pain relief blend. And do you know what? . . . it worked! . . . and its totally natural and organic, which is what I wanted!


I invested in a diffuser. I’m not sure if you know, with fibromyalgia, as well as panic attacks, you can get sensory overload, which I get often with sound. If the dogs are barking, Billy’s making a noise, Steve’s trying to talk to me and I am doing something, I can’t cope, it feels like something is flickering really fast across my eyes and face and I just have to get out of there. What I discovered when I got the diffuser was there were some oils that when diffused, really help with calming and emotional support, stress and panic. I can honestly say the diffuser is on every day that I am home and we even have it on at night to help with sleep. Steve was pretty skeptical, thinking that it was all in my head that it was working, untill he got a really nasty cough. Diffusing at night helped him stop coughing enough to sleep.


I started to make some blends for different things for friends and family, and decided I would like to do an aromatherapy course, so I really knew what I was doing and talking about. One of the blends I made was for arthritis. Steve and my mum both have it in their finger/fingers. Mum was also pretty skeptical but put some on her finger before bed, she text me the next morning to say she had woken to NO pain in that finger, and that night she was going to be putting it on ALL her fingers! Steve put it on his one finger, but I didn’t ask him if it had worked, so was amazed to over hear him chatting to his friend about a week later saying that it was ‘bloody good stuff and had really worked!’ I couldn’t believe it! Steve's sister and my auntie have also tried it and it worked for them too! It seems to help for about 5 days before they need to put it on again. I have done quite a few different blends, from insomnia, eczema, age spots, psoriasis, muscular aches and pains, mature skin to itching. I am so thrilled with the results and am loving the course I have started!


So my life has gone in a bit of a direction I never expected it to! BUT I LOVE IT :)

I was thrilled to find a couple of Denby Gypsy bits in Oxfam last month. £6.99 for the pair . . . I had been really tempted to get the jug off eBay so it was great to see it sitting there waiting for me!



have you found any bargains this month? x