Crafts and DIY gifts with essential oils are a popular, heartfelt alternative to gifting commercial items. Essential oils offer amazing benefits. And making DIY essential oil gifts is simpler than you think! There are so many things you can make with essential oils. All you’ll need are your essential oils and a few other simple ingredients.
Best of all, you can put your own spin on these DIY recipes. Try to personalize your homemade gift idea to the preferences of your loved one. Or use gift wrapping and decorations that match your styles and tastes. Here is a list of some of my favorite natural gift wrapping materials.
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With Christmas is approaching soon, I’m going to show you how to make your own essential oil gifts. You no longer have to feel overwhelmed at the numerous DIY projects that you can do using essential oils. Here are my 10 best recipes for you! Best of all, these are all great gift ideas for holiday gifts with essential oils!
1. Luxurious Body Sugar Scrub
Essential oils are excellent for skin care. A Sugar Scrub is a super easy DIY essential oils gift to make, and must be one of my favorite gift idea of all times. I’ve gifted it so many times already!
Making a homemade sugar scrub one of those great projects that is super fast to whip up. Plus, they make pretty cheap DIY gifts with essential oils, too. And, it’s easy to dress up! Use a cute mason jar with a holiday-themed lid, an especially cute gift tag, or red-green yarn wrap to kick it up a notch for Christmas gift giving.
I bet you have the ingredients in your pantry already!
Start with a basic Lemon sugar scrub recipe. Adding fractionated coconut oil brings that extra bit of moisturizing qualities. If you feel adventurous, make a oatmeal-honey variation. You can also opt to use Himalayan sea salt instead of your regular salt for that extra luxurious punch! Or substitute the recommended oils with your own essential oil blend combination.
With sugar scrubs, the sky is the limit! Use your own imagination to create a sugar scrub recipe that matches your style. My recipe at the link below includes many wonderful ideas for variations, too.
2. Essential Oil Candles
If your giftee loves to diffuse essential oils, you may be able to delight them with an essential oils candle. Nothing says “Holidays” more than beautiful scented candles. For times when you can’t or don’t want to use an essential oil diffuser, a natural scented candle is your best alternative.
For your festive DIY candles, use holiday inspired oil blends or stick to simple scents such as Cinnamon essential oil, Cassia or Sweet Orange. Essential are extremely potent and provide scent and additional health benefits to your home.
Candles are best to make in batches as you’ll be needing a double-boiler to melt the wax in. Avoid too much clean-up and get yourself producing DIY gifts for everyone in no time!
Follow the button to the recipe, which includes recommended essential oil blends that work great in candles.
3. Bath Salts
If you know your giftee will appreciate all things natural, surprise them with a DIY essential oil bath salt. They are a hit no matter the gender of your loved one! You can make muscle-soothing bath salts for the sporty men in your life, or a relaxing self-care scented bath salt for your best friend or mom.
Customize this DIY bath salt gift idea by using your preferred essential oils or homemade essential oil blend.
Easily dressed up in a mason jar, this DIY bath salt recipe makes a beautiful gift that’ll surely get used.
DIY Bath Salts with Essential Oils
4. Essential Oil Roller Bottles
If you’re gifting to anyone new to essential oils, a homemade roll-on bottle will be a hit. The essential oil blend in a roller bottle usually comes diluted in coconut oil.
Gifting a roller bottle ensures that the essential oils will be properly diluted, and your giftee can start enjoying aromatherapy right away. Also, they won’t need an essential oil diffuser to start enjoying the beautiful natural scents. It’s one of the simplest, yet best DIY gifts you can make at home.
You can style and personalize these DIY roller bottles depending on which empty rollers you buy. They don’t have to be brown/black. Amazon has plenty of cute choices for gold, purple, red, white, or anything in-between.
Make sure you buy a product with dark amber glass as the base, so that the essential oils retain their therapeutic qualities and lifespan.
5. Bar Soaps
DIY Essential oil recipes make unique and meaningful gifts. Bar soaps may sound intimidating, but they are surprisingly easy to make, and pair easy with Christmas essential oils.
Buy a simple melt-and-pour soap base, and customize your creation with an essential oil blend of choice. You’ll also have to decide on which soap molds to use. Christmas trees are seasonal and cute. But I’ve also used hearts, stars, sea shells, or flower-shaped molds before. You can also shape your soap into simple squares. Wrap them with a piece of paper to complete that ultra-natural DIY gift look.
6. Room Sprays
Who doesn’t like their home to smell fresh and clean? An essential oil room spray is a natural, non-toxic way to help with that.
Introduce essential oils to your loved ones with a simple, homemade room spray. I’ve also made an adaptation here for an organic car freshener spray.
While the article linked focuses on a yoga mat spray, the same disinfecting oils and qualities can be simply sprayed into the room – or bathroom, for example. Don’t shy away from this recipe just because it says ‘Yoga’. Try it out to disinfect your upholstery, car carpets, pet-traveled corners of your favorite lounging chair, etc.
Some oils have natural sanitizing properties, making them ideal for making cleaning products for your house. Mix and match your essential oils to find the scent you like best. Just make sure you stay within the recommended amount of drops used.
7. Lip Balm
Natural lip balm is a beautiful choice for your homemade gifts list. It’s also a great stocking stuffer, making gift giving this season just that much easier!
My lip balm recipe is basic, with coconut oil and beeswax as a base. You can customize it with your favorite essential oils.
Make sure to label your DIY Christmas gift for your family. You can get creative with handmade labels, or use a labeler (like this one here) to make beautiful, printed labels.
Essential Oils Lip Balm Recipe
8. DIY Reed Diffuser
A homemade reed diffuser is an inexpensive alternative to store-bought diffusers. It can work really well in small spaces like entryways or bathrooms.
To whip this up as a gift, you’ll need just a few simple materials:
- a container with a narrow opening
- essential oils
- carrier oil
- a teaspoon of alcohol
- reed sticks
Combining these simple ingredients won’t cost more than a few bucks. And it really takes no time at all to assemble… Bonus points for that!
9. Massage Oil
Massage oils are easy to create at home, and make great gifts for friends and family.
Because really, who doesn’t love a good back rub with some amazing smelling oils?
You can use any essential oil blend you like, really. Calming? Energizing? Soothing? Invigorating? The choices and creative options are endless.
Grab your essential oils, and get ready to surprise everyone around you with your homemade massage oil creations! It may just end up being the best essential oil DIY gift they’ve ever received!
15 DIY Massage Oil Recipes for All Occasions
10. Eye Serum
Treating your skin naturally is all the rage lately, and essential oils are at the top of the list when it comes to making luxurious and effective natural skin treatments.
With an essential oil DIY gift such as this face serum recipe, you can create something special just for your loved one.
Of course, make sure that they won’t be offended at the thought of a “wrinkle cream”…!
But, thinking about my own mother in law or best friends’ mom, this would surely be a hit with them.
So: glowing skin here we come!
Final Thoughts
Essential oil Christmas gifts will certainly be well received. Oils are an excellent way to bring some personality to your gifts. Plus, you can display your creative skills to friends and family members. They are also part of a gifting solution that doesn’t break the bank. Plus, you can step up your gift wrapping game with some beautiful natural looks!
Using essential oils in your Christmas gifts can offer valuable nourishment to your skin. Aromatherapy can improve the air quality in your home, or support your emotional well-being.
Making your own products using essential oils is an excellent means to save money on Christmas gifts, and stay within a budget. After trying a few of these DIY recipe ideas, you will not ever look at essential oils the same again.
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Happy gift giving!
Kho Tinh Dau
Thanks for your post
Avis Hilliard
Hi Emma,
I would like to read a review from you on Plant Guru essential oils. They are available through Amazon though they do have their own website. I use them along with Plant Therapy and Eden’s Garden oils. I find that having several suppliers allows me to collect a larger variety of oils and to replenish at the best price point when I run out of an oil. I would like to mention GreenHealth oils are also sold on Amazon. This store is local so I went to check them out. I found their oils to be less odiferous but I know that does not mean they are any less therapeutic. Since I also like to diffuse oils I will only go to them from now on for hydrosols I am unable to make myself. I am happy with their hydrosols and the coffee Essential Oil I got from them. The black pepper was disappointing.
Emma Carter
Hey there Avis, thanks so much for your comment. Glad to hear you’re able to stock your aromatherapy library from various sources. I do the same! :) Yes, I have reviewed Plant Guru essential oils as well, please find the article here.