How To Use Essential Oils In Wax Warmer
Add 10 drops of your essential oils to the water.
How to use essential oils in wax warmer. Each oil has its merits. Add enough oil to fill your candle warmer as normal and let the oil heat up or melt. Clean the oil warmer after each use. Essential oils are volatile. Two cups of melted wax and essential oils just about perfectly fills up this silicone mold to make 12 wax melts.
Just make sure to let it sit in ice water to get cold before pouring the hot wax in. For example using sandalwood oil is a product of killing the entire tree. Once you turn off the wax warmer the wax will harden and become solid again. I love to use the coconut oil because it most resembles wax to me. Using either a medicine dropper or the applicator dispenser that came with your oil add 10 drops of your oil to the water.
Pour the melted wax into each cavity of the silicone mold. Using fragrance oils can be more environmentally sustainable than using essential oils. Experiment with different scented oils to create new scents. Lavender has a flashpoint of 65 centigrade 149 fahrenheit while ylang ylang has a much higher flash point of 90. To increase the shelf life of the oils and to prevent evaporation tightly secure the cap and store the oil in a cupboard.
You must dilute with some sort of oil. If you want to use fragrance oils to scent your home there are better and safer ways than using them in your wax warmer. Whether you decide to use essential oils or fragrance oils depends on your purpose. Other models involve sitting a ceramic bowl on top of a heating element sometimes referred to as a candle warmer or wax warmer. Let them sit for a few hours and cool completely before you pop them out of the mold.
Tart warmers are not designed to warm up oils especially not fragrance oils as they can vary so vastly in their chemical composition. Then for small warmers add 3 5 drops of essential oil. You can also use vegetable oil. Soy wax melted and put in essential oils then use one of the plastic containers the bought wax melts come in as a mold. Wax warmers have a very distinct advantage over oil warmers.