{"id":125571,"date":"2019-03-29T18:17:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T18:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schoolofnaturalskincare.com\/?p=125571"},"modified":"2024-11-11T04:25:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T04:25:16","slug":"formulating-with-essential-oils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schoolofnaturalskincare.com\/formulating-with-essential-oils\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than Just a Nice Scent: How to Combine the Art and Science of Formulating with Essential Oils"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Essential oils are typically some of the first ingredients that people encounter when they are just starting out in natural skincare formulation\u2014or using natural products in general! They are typically accessible, affordable, easy to use, and provide wonderful benefits just by themselves. But essential oils aren\u2019t just useful for the beautiful scents they can provide! There is an amazing therapeutic benefit to choosing the right essential oil or oils for your product. And the combination of both of those factors\u2014fragrance and function\u2014is where you have the opportunity to really hone and expand your formulation skills.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scent is important! While some customers smell a product first, before then testing it on their skin, and others test first, then smell on themselves, the fact still stands that getting the right fragrance is imperative. Something that works well but doesn\u2019t smell good won\u2019t build the same emotional connection\u2014and people will pass, no matter how soft it makes their skin feel. Scents are so powerful because of the way our brains are wired. Smell is linked to and controlled by the limbic system in the brain\u2014this is the pleasure center. It controls what we like and dislike, influences how we feel and what we think, and is a key part of how we judge things. Scent triggers an immediate emotional response that is distinctly different from all other sensory input\u2026 which means that scent is often the deciding factor between making a sale or having something put back on the shelf. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As important as scent is, the real power comes from selecting essential oils that provide both the fragrance as well as the therapeutic properties. There is no other ingredient in your skincare that will offer the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual wellness benefits that essential oils offer. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, if the goal is to incorporate both an evocative, beautiful fragrance as well as the functional wellness, how do you do that? <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Successfully<\/i> Formulating with Essential Oils<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To really combine the powerful sensory and therapeutic effects of essential oils, you need to follow a process in selecting the right oils that asks the right questions\u2014not just choosing the scent and hoping the effects are what you want, or choosing for effect and hoping the scent combination is appealing. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You should also consider the following questions when selecting essential oils to use in your skin care formulations: <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n