| Essential oil users gradually accumulate more and | | | | the seat of your car. Especially if the windows |
| more empty essential oil bottles, but what do you | | | | remain closed, you get some nice fragrances that |
| do with this growing collection of empties? Surely | | | | way! |
| not put them with the other glass recycling items. | | | | TEACHING |
| The longer I use essential oils, the more clever | | | | 13. Because essential oil bottles have different |
| ways I discover to use these empty bottles. I | | | | colored labels, you can use the empties as a |
| hope that the list below will inspire you to give | | | | means of teaching colors to young children. |
| these empties a new life, either with you or with | | | | 14. Use the empties - with labels covered - as a |
| someone else! | | | | means of teaching scent recognition. |
| PERSONAL USES | | | | WHEN YOU NEED A SMALLER BOTTLE OR LESS |
| 1. Make your own health blends of essential oils. | | | | WEIGHT |
| 2. Make your own perfume or cologne blends. | | | | 15. Essential oils come in different size bottles, |
| 3. Sniff them, because the aroma lasts for a long | | | | ranging from 15 milliliters to 5 milliliters. When |
| time. | | | | traveling by plane, you may want less weight and |
| IN THE HOUSE | | | | more space, so you can put however many |
| 4. Make your own air freshener. How? Put a few | | | | drops of the oil you think you'll need into the 5 |
| drops of essential oil in an empty glass bottle, add | | | | milliliter size empty bottle. |
| water, shake, and add a spray top. | | | | 16. Likewise for your purse or pocket. If the |
| 5. Make your own cooling spritzer in the summer. | | | | empty bottle originally contained something |
| How? As in #4, but using peppermint essential oil | | | | different from the 15 milliliter bottle, I use my label |
| helps cool you off. Did you know that peppermint | | | | maker to make a black-on-white label for the 5 |
| essential oil can even help bring down a fever? | | | | milliliter bottle. |
| 6. In your house, split up one bottle into several | | | | PROBLEMS WITH THE BOTTLE |
| empties. This lets you have several bottles at | | | | 17. The lids of empties can be used to replace the |
| different places around the house. | | | | child-proof lids, especially for grownups who |
| 7. Put SEVERAL empty bottles into a quart/gallon | | | | cannot easily open the child-proof lids. |
| whatever of pure water for many different | | | | 18. Over time, essential oil companies sometimes |
| tastes. Ingesting any essential oil brings more | | | | experiment with different orifice reducers. If you |
| oxygen into the system. Always wash the bottles | | | | don't like the new ones, use one from an empty |
| carefully before dropping them into the water. | | | | bottle. |
| 8. Place the empty bottle, with the cap and orifice | | | | 19. If the bottom edge of the bottle becomes |
| reducer removed, right into your filled bathtub. | | | | chipped -- maybe you dropped it on a hard |
| 9. Essential oils have a vibrational energy, so | | | | surface -- pour the oil from this bottle into an |
| putting a few drops of the Abundance blend, for | | | | empty bottle and throw the chipped bottle away. |
| example, near your computer or phone lets that | | | | SHARING |
| area benefit from the energy of that blend. Some | | | | 20. Add 10 to 15 drops to an empty bottle and |
| people put an empty bottle of the Harmony blend | | | | give as a gift to friends and family. |
| in family areas of the home. | | | | 21. If your business sells essential oils, put 10 |
| 10. Tie a pretty ribbon around the top and use | | | | drops of a given oil into an empty bottle and let |
| the empty bottles (with lids) as Christmas tree | | | | your customer or new distributor try this, instead |
| decorations. | | | | of them having to buy a large bottle without |
| IN THE CAR | | | | knowing for sure whether they will like it. This |
| 11. If you drive multiple vehicles, split up one bottle | | | | builds good will. |
| into several empties, so you'll have a bottle in | | | | 22. As I'm writing this, I'm thinking that some of |
| each vehicle. | | | | our war veterans might appreciate an empty |
| 12. Or, you can remove the cap and orifice | | | | bottle into which a few drops of a comforting |
| reducer from an empty bottle and put it under | | | | essential oil blend has been placed. |