Friday, September 05, 2008

The first steps of making your own perfume

Making your own perfume has many ways better then buying perfume from a perfume counter. One reasons is that the price you had to paid for a bottle of perfume from a well known brand can be very expensive compare in making your own perfume. The other reasons is you can get the smell to your liking and besides how strong you want the perfume to stay in your skin.

The first steps of making your own perfume are to get things that you needs to make perfume. A pure bottle of vodka or brandy, Few bottles of different essentials oils, spring water, glass bottles, glass dropper and coffee filter.

Then learn the notes and it is break up of three kinds. The base notes where the scent stay very long in your skin and the smell is much stronger. Most people used sandalwood, cedarwoods, cinnamon and patchouli. The middle notes which the smell stays about an hour in your skin. Most recommand middle notes are nutmeg, geranium, lemongrass and ylang-ylang. The top notes and is the first scent when you first apply the perfume to the skin. Citrus and Flower scent such as rose, Lavender or jessmine are used.

Grind or ground the ingredient which you want to make your perfume. Add the amount of vodka or brandy to the mixture, the essential oils and the water into a bottle and stopper it. Shake the bottle well for several minutes and times and leave it in a dark place. Smell the perfume first and if the smell is to desire then pour it through the coffee filter to a perfume bottle.

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Friday, June 13, 2008

Making your own perfume to save cost

Making your own perfume it seem to be very difficult if no one is going to guild you but to make your own perfume would be very nice because you were able to get the scent you want from other people besides the cost of making your own perfume is much very cheap of a bottle of perfume you get from the store. The cost of a bottle of perfume or cologne is around twenty percentage of retail price. Most company will add packaging, tax, labours, sales profit, advertising, rental and shipment to the bottle of perfume. So would'nt it be nice to make your own perfume.

All you needs to make own perfume are a few bottles of essentials oils which you can brought from shops, 100 percent pure vodka, spring water or distill water, if you want to add color to the perfume, used only vegetable food dye. Sterilized pretty bottle to pure in your perfume. Lastly a small note books to write down the things and the amount you put in. Coffee filter to pure in the perfume when is ready so that the sediment won;t get through.

Knows the three notes when making your own perfume. The first notes most refer as the base notes which has a stronger smell and will last longer to the skin are of sandalwood, cedarwoods or ferns. The second notes known as the middle notes are from lemon grass or ylang ylang but the smell won't be as strong as the base notes. Last the top notes which the smile are lighter and will last only few hours in the skin are of flower such as jasmine, rose, orchids or lavender.

Add a drops or two of essentials oils about half bottle of vodka and spring water and the notes in a sterilized bottle and left it for three to four days. Place the bottle away from the direct sun or hot place. shake or stir the bottle well. If you find the smell to stronger add spring water to it to dilute the smell. After you had satified the smell pour it through the coffee filter and into a clean and pretty bottle. Now your perfume is ready to be used.

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

The difference of making your own perfume

The difference of making your own perfume than buying from perfume outlets in big shopping complex or shopping malls is the price and the fragrance smell of the perfume. Making your perfume can save you a lot of money as perfume sell in malls are tops up with taxes, office rented, shipments and staff salary and commission. Buying from them you had to be satisfied with the same fragrance and to make your own, you can have the smell stronger or lighter by adding more or less of the the notes.

To make your own perfume all you needs is pure vodka, essential oils and spring water. Second is the three notes to make perfume. The base notes is the smell and how stronger you want your perfume to smell and it is most comes from sandlwoods and cedarwoods. The middle notes which has another fragrance smell and smell is lighter than the base notes which I most used from lemon grass. Last is the tops notes. This fragrance smell most comes from flowers such as orchids, rose and lavender and is much lighter than the three notes.

Cooks the said ingredient with vodka, water and the essentials oils and left it for two to four weeks in a tight close bottle away from sunlight. Shake the bottle very well each days until you get the fragrance smell to your liking. If the smell is not right, shake it again and left it for more few days. Last fitter it with a cloth coffee fitter into a nice dry bottle.

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Monday, February 11, 2008

First time making my own perfume

When I started to learn from my aunty how to make my own perfume, its takes me few months to understand the ways to make your own perfume. The most important is to know the basic steps. The three notes. The first notes is the base notes and the smell comes from cedarwoods and sandalwoods where the smell is much stronger and stay very long in your skin. how much you put both ingredents, its depend how strong you want the smell to stay. The middle notes of lemon grass, my favourite smell, the smell is less stronger than the base notes. The top noted the smell of flowers such as orchids, rose and lavender and is much lighter than the three notes.

Cook the ingrident with pure water and then add vodka or brandy to it, left to cool down and then left it in a tight bottle for few days. Shake the bottle everydays to get the balance smell. When everythings is finish, smell the make perfume to your liking and if you find the smell is still not that strong, left it again for another few days to get to your liking. Lastly fitter it with coffee cloth fitter into a nice perfume bottle. Stay away from heat and hot sun.

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Know the secret of making your own perfume

There are ways of making your own perfume at home. Making your own perfume will saved you alots of money as when perfumed is sell in a retailers shops all expences that the shops oweners is going to bears is charge on you. The staff cost, rented of the sales lots, the electricity and water cost plus the shipments. Making your own perfume will cost less then fifty RM and if you are are going to buy from the shops it will cost you a few hundreds.

All you needs to know about making your own perfume is the three diffrence types of essentials oil. The first notes which we called it the base notes where the frangrance smell is much stonger and it will last very long in our body. This most make of sandalwood, cedarwoods or ferns. The second is the middle notes whereby the smell is not as stong as the base note and its comes from lemongrass. The top notes which is the lighter are of rose, ochids, lavendar.

Things you needs to make your own perfume, A coffee filter as for filters when you finish proccessing the perfume. A glass bottle to storage the perfume after you finish. A small bottle of concetrate vodka and pure water for mixture after you finish adding the vodka with the essental oils.

Monday, August 13, 2007

Saving alots by making your own perfume

Recently I met an old friends of mine who is selling his own make perfume at a night market. His business was not bad with most of his regular customber and new customber. The price he his selling his perfume are very much cheaper compare to branded brand but the smell of his perfume are the same smell of the branded brand. I spend two hours talking to him about how to make your own perfume.

Things that needs to make your own perfume are the essentials oil which is one of the expensive items, this items can be brought at craft shops and night market which I brought from him. Flowers like lavender, rosemary, roses and others kinds that sued your smell. First you grinds the flowers and add some spring water to it, you can add some liquors to it, like vodka or brandy to it. Fitter the mixture fron a cloth coffee fitters so that the tiny leaves will never go through to a glass bottle or a porcelyn jars and shake it well. Then add the essentails oils to it, shake it again and leave it for a weeks to ten days. Test the smell first. After the ten days, open it and smell again, if you like the smell then you had already completed making your own perfume by yourself.

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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Lavender or rosemary smell nice for making perfume

Things you must learned to make a good perfume. To make your own perfume is much to your personal preference smell, how you like the smell to be and how long do you want it to stay in your skin. The most commom and smell nice is from Lavender or rosemary. All you needs is a vodka or brandy 100% pure, esseence oil and spring water.

First put the lavender or rosemary or any kinds of roses that smell nice to you in a pot and then grind it with motar or pestle and then add some of the spring water to it, shake it well. Follow by adding some vodka or brandy to it and shake it again for a numbers of time, then add in the essence oil and then shake it again.

Strain the mixture to get rid of the leaves in a coffee cloth fitter or a piece of fine cloth. Always remmember to smell and test the perfume first. Leave the pot in a dark place for a week. Shake the pot every one or two days to get the smell that you want and then pour it into a nice and beautiful bottle that you are using daily.

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