Top 25 Best Essential Oil Blends, Recipes and Combinations

Looking for the best essential oil blends?  In this article I will show you how to easily and quickly create your favorite essential oil recipes, blends and combinations.

Diffusing essential oil blends is refreshing for your mind, body, and soul.

And they make your house smell amazing!

Essential oils are volatile and naturally-occurring compounds that are found in fruits, roots, seeds, stems, etc. and they give each plant a distinct fragrance.

You can diffuse one essential oil at a time, or blend a few together to enjoy the benefits.

In today’s blog post I’ll be going through the process of blending essential oils and the top 25 essential oil blends that I enjoy the most.

Let’s get started!

Why Should You Use Essential Oil Blends?

Blending essential oils is all about making your sense of smell happy.

Did you know that the human nose can identify 1 trillion scents?

Blending essential oils and having fun with them can help you create your own scent which can be therapeutic for you.

Blending essential oils can be an activity that gives you sheer pleasure!

Here are the advantages of blending essential oils:

• Mixing 2-3 essential oils with the same properties can help achieve their benefits quickly
• The right blends can help you relax and unwind
• Blends are also known to increase one’s concentration and focus on work

You get the idea, right?

How to Blend Essential Oils

In this section, I’ll teach you how to blend essential oils the right way.

Let’s begin!

What Scents and Aromas do You Like?

We all have unique preferences.

And when you’re creating an essential oil blend for yourself, you should keep in mind your unique preferences.

And, don’t be shy to test new things out!

Here are a few scents you can pick from:

I personally love the spicy fragrances.

Let me know in the comments section which is your favorite!

Moving on…

It’s All About That (Top, Middle, and) Base!

I’m not talking about music here.

So, there are three ‘notes’ in a blend:

• The top note
• The middle note
• The base note

These notes are determined by the amount of time they take to evaporate.

This means…

The ‘top note’ is the quickest to evaporate while the middle and the base notes take a longer amount of time.

So, here’s the deal:

• Top notes take an hour (or two hours) to evaporate
  Popular top notes include basil, spearmint, lemongrass, orange, etc.
  
• Middle notes take between two to four hours to evaporate
  Popular base notes are tea tree, nutmeg, chamomile, jasmine, etc.
  
• The base may take a few days to evaporate!
  These include cedarwood, balsam, oakmoss, etc.

Test The Blend!

In this step that you can ‘test’ your notes out and see whether or not they work together.

All you’ll need for this are:

• Some cotton swabs!
• Your essential oils
• An eye dropper

Put one drop from each of your three essential oils onto a cotton swab and hold the swab (away from your nose!) and swirl it in the air.

So you like what you smell?

If not, then make changes until you find the perfect fit!

Let’s Do the Mix!

After you essential oil recipe has passed the sniff test, it’s time to start mixing!

You’ll need the following things in this step:

• An eye dropper
• A clean mixing bowl
• A glass vial

There are two guidelines you can follow for the mix:

1. The 123 Rule
   This one says that for each drop of your base note, you should add 2 drops of your middle note and three drops of the top note.

1. The 30-50-20 Rule
   This rule suggests that your mixture should be:
   1. 30% top note
   2. 50% middle note
   3. 20% base note

All you’ve got to do is to add the essential oils to the mixing bowl using an eye dropper and then transfer the mixture to a glass vial!

Storage!

Essential oils are highly volatile compounds.

After making your blend, make sure to let it sit for a few days and store it in a glass bottle.

That’s because essential oils can react with other materials.

How to Use Your Essential Oil Blend: The Things You’ll Need

Before you try out your new blend, there are a few things that you’ll need.

Let’s take a look.

• An essential oil diffuser
  There are a lot of options to choose from. You can choose a nebulizing diffuser, humidifier, a bamboo diffuser, etc.
• You also need your essential oil recipes

I feel that you should diffuse 8-10 drops of your essential oil combinations to get the best effect.

But…

Keep in mind that each and every blend is unique.

So, it is always better to add a small amount first to test out the fragrance and then make changes accordingly.

 Top 25 Best Essential Oil Blends

In this section, I’ll be sharing 25 of the best essential oil combinations.

Please do keep in mind and each and every human is unique. A fragrance that I like may be one that you hate!

So, let’s take a look at the essential oil recipes, shall we?

Smart

This essential oil recipe helps you concentrate on the task at hand.

For this you’ll need:

• 2 drops rosemary
• 4 drops cinnamon
• 4 drops peppermint

Focus on Me

This essential oil blend increases your focus and helps you study for the finals!

For this, you’ll need 3 drops each of:

• Rosemary
• Peppermint
• Frankincense

Stressbuster

This essential oil combination helps combat stresses that can creep into the modern day to day life.

For this you’ll need:

• 1 drop marjoram
• 2 drops ylang-ylang
• 3 drops clary sage
• 4 drops lavender

Return of the Stress Buster

This essential oil blend helps you concentrate on the task at hand.

For this you’ll need:

• 4 drops peppermint
• 4 drops cinnamon
• 2 drop rosemary

Stress Buster: Reincarnated

This essential oil recipe helps you fight and defeat stress.

For this you’ll need:

• 4 drops lavender
• 2 drops cedarwood
• 2 drops wild orange
• 1 drop ylang-ylang

Calm

Breath this essential oil blend in and get relaxed. Maybe even take a bubble bath.

For this you’ll need:

• 2 drops Roman chamomile
• 2 drops ylang-ylang
• 2 drops clary sage
• 3 drops geranium
• 3 drops lavender

Up

This essential oil combination helps you let go of all of your stress and find peace and calm.

For this you’ll need:

• 3 drops mandarin
• 3 drops lavender
• 3 drops lime

Energizing

This essential oil blend energizes you and makes you feel happier and ready for just about anything!

For this you’ll need:

• 2 drops grapefruit
• 3 drops rosemary
• 3 drops peppermint

Heatbeat

This essential oil recipe helps feel happiness throughout your body and fill you up with energy.

For this you’ll need:

• 3 drops wild orange
• 3 drops frankincense
• 2 drops cinnamon

Good morning

This essential oil recipe helps you wake up in the morning and have an amazing (and energy-filled) day!

For this you’ll need:

• 4 drops peppermint
• 4 drops wild orange

Because I’m Happy

This essential oil blend helps put you in a good mood.

For this you’ll need:

• 3 drops bergamot
• 3 drops lavender
• 2 drops geranium

Bye, bye Disease!

This essential oil combination helps fight diseases.

For this you’ll need:

• 2 drops rosemary
• 2 drop eucalyptus
• 2 drops clove
• 2 drops wild orange
• 2 drops cinnamon

Immune Boost

This essential oil combination helps you boost your immunity.

For this you’ll need:

• 2 drops eucalyptus
• 2 drops lemon
• 2 drops peppermint
• 1 drop lime
• 1 drop rosemary
• 1 drop clove

Sleepy head

This essential oil blend helps you fall asleep peacefully at night.

For this you’ll need:

• 3 drops lavender
• 3 drops juniper berry
• 3 drops Roman chamomile

Zzz

This essential oil blend helps you fall and stay asleep throughout the night.

For this you’ll need:

• 2 drops frankincense
• 3 drops lavender
• 3 drops vetiver

Sneeze

This essential oil recipe helps you fight the common cold.

For this you’ll need:

• 2 drops lemon
• 3 drops cypress
• 4 drops peppermint
• 4 drops eucalyptus
• 5 drops rosemary

Deep Breaths

This essential oil recipe helps you with your breathing.

For this you’ll need:

• 4 drops peppermint
• 4 drops eucalyptus

Repel

This essential oil recipe helps repel unwanted insects.

For this you’ll need:

• 2 drop thyme
• 2 drop eucalyptus
• 2 drop lemongrass
• 2 drop basil

Headache

This essential oil combination helps you overcome your migraine.

For this you’ll need:

• 2 drops myrrh
• 4 drops eucalyptus
• 6 drops peppermint

Winter

Cold air, snowfall, Christmas lights…

This essential oil recipe is perfect for wintertime.

For this you’ll need:

• 3 drops wild orange
• 3 drops white fir
• 2 drop wintergreen

Christmas

This essential oil combination is perfect for Christmas time.

For this you’ll need:

• 1 drop ylang ylang
• 2 drops clove
• 3 drops orange
• 4 drops patchouli
• 4 drops cinnamon

Spring

It’s always spring when you diffuse this essential oil blend.

For this you’ll need:

• 2 drop geranium
• 3 drops Roman chamomile
• 3 drops lavender

Summer

This essential oil recipe that reminds you of summer.

For this you’ll need:

• 2 drops spearmint
• 2 drops lemon
• 3 drops lavender
• 3 drops grapefruit

Tea

A hot cup of spiced India tea.

For this you’ll need:

• 1 drop ginger
• 2 drops cassia
• 2 drops clove
• 3 drops cardamom

Fall

Autumn.

For this you’ll need:

• 3 drops cinnamon
• 3 drops ginger
• 4 drops wild orange

Final Words

I hope this article helped you figure out how to blend essential oils.

Always keep in mind that essential oil blends can be a hit or a miss. So, keep trying until you find the best blend that defines you!

Other than that…

Let me know if you tried any of the 25 essential oil blends I wrote about in this blog!

Leave comments and let me know which one you liked the best!