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Reader Tips: Making Your Own Perfume or Cologne
Last month, we talked a bit about mixing your own scents to avoid the toxic chemicals in storebought fragrance. My recipe called for adding 40-60 drops of essential oil in a 2oz. spray bottle, then filling the rest of the bottle up with rubbing alcohol. The idea here is that oil dissolves in alcohol, so it’s a good, inexpensive carrier for the scent.
There was some great discussion in the comments, and we wanted to share some of those reader insights!
How To: Make Your Own Perfume or Cologne
Store bought fragrances can be pretty nasty stuff. Environmental Working Group (EWG) tested 17 popular perfumes and colognes and reported an average of 14 mystery chemicals, with some brands containing as many as 24! Thanks to a legal loophole, fragrance companies don’t have to disclose what is in their recipes. Meanwhile, 66% of the chemicals [...]
