Scented beads with essential oils

Scented beads

Beads with essential oils that touches the skin lets out the fragrance of the essential oil from your body heat.

Or you could just put the beads in a bowl and let the breeze carry out the aroma.

This recipe makes a paste which is rolled to make small round beads you could make into a necklace, bracelet or earrings.

The warmer they get the more aroma they let out.

Use a single oil or a blend of oils to create your own unique fragrance, I’m using honeysuckle.

1 ounce powder benzoin (the gum variety)
1 ounce powder acacia (the gum variety)
1/2 ounce powder orris root
1/2 ounce powder cinnamon
1/2 ounce powder clove
1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
2 drops vanilla essence
2 tablespoons glycerine
10 drops honeysuckle essential oil or which essential oil you like to use

Mix all the ingredients together (except the essential oil) to form a paste.
Roll the paste into little balls.
Add 1 drop essential oil to each bead.
When dry enough to handle, make a hole in them by using a hot sewing needle, leaving the beads on the needle.
Put them on a tray and let them dry.