Beautiful, Last Minute Essential Oil Gifts to Make

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    I've been something like a mad scientist this year, creating all kinds of concoctions as Christmas gifts!  Essential oils have played a big part in this endeavor and I have enjoyed every minute of it.  

     The great thing about using essential oils to make these gifts is that you get a beautiful result from very little effort and very few ingredients.  The products come together fairly quickly and packaging them up is a lot of fun because they can go into all kinds of little bottles or pretty wrappings.  All of these ideas make lovely and well appreciated gifts.  

     My good friend Jaci, who is my go-to for all things essential oil posted some really fun ideas this year for a 25 days of Christmas using Doterra Essential Oils.  If you want to shop Doterra, click the link.)  I'm borrowing some of her ideas for this list! (She had so many good ones!)

1.  Room Spray:  A few weeks ago I shared some formulas using essential oils for room freshening sprays! Check them out here! I have been loving using mine this holiday season and I'm sharing them with friends as gifts, too.  My recipes are for the holidays, but if you search the web, you will find scents that will work all year long.  

2.  Scented Hand Warmers:  If you sew,  little handwarmers are perfect to slip into jacket pockets and adding a scent to them makes them even better.  You can make simple little squares, heart shapes or any type of animal shape that you would like.  Of course squares would be easiest.  Jaci's directions suggest using flax seed to fill them.  Mix 3-5 drops of oil for each 1 cup of flax seed.  This will make a strong scent.  Let it sit out for a little while before filling the fabric pocket that you've sewn 3/4 of the way full.  Then, stitch up the opening! Heat these in the microwave for about 25-30 seconds.  Give them a 30 second cool down time and then put in your pocket before going out into the cold weather!  
​     I once made some little owl shaped ornaments that would be an easy pattern to convert to cute little hand warmers!  Or, leave them as ornaments and scent them as well! 

3.  Neck Warmer:  Similar to the hand warmers, you could also make neck warmers with a soothing scent! There are patterns for those all over Pinterest.  I once made some owl shaped ones of these as well!  Putting a soothing warming bag against a stiff neck with a lovely lavender scent wafting out of it would be awesome! 

4.   Bath Soap:  Melt and pour bath soaps are so easy to make and you can make them more special by adding your own ingredients and oils.  I posted about doing just that here.

5.  Sugar Scrub:  Jaci shared a recipe for a Candy Cane Sugar (or salt) Scrub.  The only ingredients are 3/4 c. sugar (or salt), 1/2 c. fractionated coconut oil, 12 drops of peppermint oil and skin safe red  coloring.  Blend all of the ingredients well then divide the mixture in half.  Add the coloring to one half of the scrub.  Then, package this by layering the red and white candy cane style!  This would be so cute layered in these test tubes! 

6.  Men's Beard Oil:  Men don't have to be left out of your essential oil gift giving!  There are some great recipes on the web for beard oil!  ​Doterra Essential Oils are available in some great woodsy scents.  This website, Live Bearded, shares a bunch of different beard oil recipes! 

7.  Salt Dough Ornaments:  Giving a simple, yet beautiful salt dough ornament along with a bottle of essential oil to keep it scented is a sweet gift idea that can become a cherished keepsake.  Simply cut your ornaments out with a Christmas Cookie Cutter, along with a hole to use to hang it, and then allow the ornaments to dry.  Then, put a drop of two of oil on the ornaments to scent them.  Here are a few scents you might consider:  Peppermint, Cinnamon Bark, Douglas Fir, Wild Orange,  Wintergreen, or a blend like  ​Holiday Joy, or Holiday Peace.

Imagine these shapes as ornaments. You can just leave them white, or if you paint one side, leave the other side white so it can absorb the essential oils.

8. Bath Salt Ornament:  This is another adorable idea shared by Jaci!  Mix together 1 cup of Epsom salts with 5-10 drops of essential oils, your favorite scent.  You can blend in a few very tiny pieces of dried herbs or flowers for the look.  Use a clear ornament as the vessel and fill it with the salts until full! Tie a ribbon on the top!  The Candy Cane Sugar Scrub would also look cute layered in an ornament! 
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​9.  Milk Bath:  This is something that I had fun making and using this year! It is so easy to make and it creates a wonderful smelling spa-like experience when you use it in your bath.  A milk bath makes your skin silky smooth and added to the aroma of the essential oils, you will come out of the tub more relaxed than you've felt in ages!  
     There are lots of directions to be found on Pinterest for milk bath mixtures.  Some include flower petals and other ingredients.  But, I don't like to clog my tub drain with those things, so I stuck with the ingredients that dissolve really well.  Then, I packaged them in those adorable test tubes that I suggested for the candy cane sugar scrub.  

Here are the recipes I used for these milk bath variations or Christmas Candy Scented  and Serene Lavender Milk Bath.  Just click on them to get the pdf files. 

     I also made little gift tags for you to attach to your gift.  I like to make sure the recipient can read what is in the product to make sure there are no allergy issues!  For these tags, 

• Click on the image and upload it to your computer.
• On your computer image, right click on the tag and look for the more options line and click on it.
• Click print
• You should be able to choose a sheet of wallet sized prints and choose 9 copies to populate the page.
• Then, print.

      There you go!  8 ideas to help you out with last minute gifts!  I could have added bath bombs or shower steamers to the mix as well!  Not to mention your own diffuser blends that you can bottle up as gifts!  (Maybe a diffuser to go with it!)   I hope that these ideas help you out this season and if you have any other great essential oil ideas, pleas let me know!