Young Living Essential Oils are great for helping your chakras

Young Living Essential Oils are great for helping your chakras

Great Idea for Empty EO Bottles

Have you found that you have saved all your empty Young Living essential oil bottles? I know I have, and they do smell lovely in the box I've been collecting them in. But, there must be something more we can do with them besides opening the box on occasion to enjoy the aroma. So, what I decided to do was go back through my empty bottles, one by one. I removed the reducer cap and poured each bottle into one 15 ml bottle. Now you might think this would be a waste of time, but it isn't. I managed to get two to three drops out of most bottles and some a bit more. With all my bottles, I ended up filling almost half of a 15 ml bottle with an array of wonderful scents.  What would one do with this precious oil you ask? Well, as I write this, I am sitting a my desk enjoying the assortment of oils, as I have filled my diffuser with my collection. That is pretty thrifty I would say.
Now I have a bunch of bottles I know are empty. But they're not done being used yet either. For instance, I can use an empty bottle of Peppermint as an inhaler, because the oils are volatile and some of it will cling to the sides of the bottle still leaving a wonderful aroma. I can use that if I feel a headache coming on, if I'm feeling tired while driving or just as a refreshing pick me up. Now, we have many other bottles and we don't want to use them all as inhaler's or waste the residue left in the bottle. So, the next thing we can do is draw a nice bath and place a few bottles in the bath water to scent it. After a few times of doing that we can still save the clean bottles for use when making blends or giving oils to someone. Another good idea is to fill the bottle with a bit of alcohol and distilled water, place a spray top on and make a spritzer for after the shower or just to refresh yourself. (Spray tops that fit our 15 ml bottles are available through Abundant Health) So, just in an hour of my time I have gotten myself a lot more use out of, what one might think, empty bottles of essential oils. And in the meantime saved the landfill from more waste. Happy Oiling!