Thread: adding essential oils to unscented products.

These guys seem to think the oil in witch hazel is fine:

Homemade After Shaves : How To Make Homemade After Shave Lotion & Balm

Originally Posted by jeffegg2

These guys seem to think the oil in witch hazel is fine:

Homemade After Shaves : How To Make Homemade After Shave Lotion & Balm

Notice that it says shave once a day; this is because the EO/fragrance oils will not go into solution with the water base. Thus, you have to shake it to disperse the oils (just like oil/vinegar salad dressing).

As another note, this particular mixture is a bit strong on orange since it uses both orange blossom water (a hydrosol) and neroli oil. Neroli oil is of course just orange blossom essential oil.

My first post since the sight moved from Yahoo. A bit of experience with Witch Hazel here. For the last 15 years, I've been adding various scents to WH, then using it as an aftershave. My method is to use an ordinary shot glass, put a few drops of (essential oil, cologne), then fill the rest of the glass with WH and splash immediately. WH has some ethanol in it, about 10%, which will dissolve some oils. The cloudy appearance is natural, as the rest is mostly water. Any Absinthe drinkers will understand this.

Albert

i've tried adding clove oil directly to witch hazel and it just makes a cloudy mess that still smells like witch hazel.. i did add clove oil to nivea aftershave balm without any problems and it smells great.. i also have a 2 ounce mist bottle that i filled with vodka and about 6 drops of clove oil.. it burns like heck and smells great.. i just need to add some toner.. maybe just glycerin..

i also added about 10 drops of clove to a bottle of masters bay rum and the results are nice.. but i'd like to eliminate the bay oil and have a purely clove aftershave.. the ingredient list to masters is

deionized pure water, sd alcohol 40, glycerin, bay oil. and then the yellow #5 and #6..

i think i'm well on my way to getting this sorted out.. i just have to try not to waste the clove oil.. a 10ml bottle was $11..