Essential Oils DIY Supplies List

If you like to make your own essential oil blends or add the oils to homemade lotions, body butters, and other items, this is the list for you.

There is no wrong way to use your oils (aside from just not using them!), especially since oils can integrate into every area of your life – rollers, room sprays, DIY supplements, candle replacements and SO … MUCH … MORE.

From roller bottles to carriers to anything you want to DIY, here are all the supplies you need to use your oils to the fullest!

CARRIER OILS Carrier oils are used to dilute essential oils for either topical use or internal use. When using oils internally, make sure to use ingestible oils such as high quality olive oil or coconut oil.

• V-6 Carrier oil: a blended carrier oil from Young Living for any topical use
• Organic cold-pressed olive oil: can be used for internal or topical application
• Fractionated coconut oil: liquid at room temperature and will not solidify, often used for roller blends
• Organic unrefined coconut oil: often used for salves, creams, body butters, topical dilution
• Jojoba oil: liquid at room temperature, used in roller blends, facial serums, a good overall carrier oil
• Argan oil: liquid carrier, good for skincare
• Castor oil: often used for eyelash serums, adrenal serums
• Vitamin E oil: often added to skincare DIYs

GLASS BOTTLES & ROLLERS When using essential oils for DIY projects, you want to make sure to use glass spray, dropper or roller bottles. Here are some DIY-ers’ favorites:

• Small glass spray bottles: for room sprays, etc,
• Large glas spray bottles: for Thieves cleaner
• Large and small spray bottles
• Large and small spray bottles, roller set
• Oral spray bottles with adapter: for throat sprays, oral sprays
• Thin oral spray bottles
• Glass dropper bottles: great for serums and pre-made diffuser blends
• Glass jars for bath salts, scrubs, body butter
• Glass pump bottles
• Mini glass roller bottles: great for sharing oils!
• Mini glass dropper bottles
• Amber roller bottles with stainless steel rollers
• Cube rollers: these are lovely for perfume blends
• Bamboo top roller bottles
• Bamboo top dropper bottles
• Bamboo spray tops to add to empty 15mL YL bottles

OTHER COMMONLY USED SUPPLIES Whether you’re mixing up some body butter or making your own candles, here are the supplies I’ve used and love:

• Empty vegetable capsules
• Alcohol-free witch hazel
• Dried lavender flowers
• Dried rose buds
• Magnesium bath flakes
• Epsom salts
• Raw shea butter
• Refined shea butter: has less scent than raw shea butter
• Raw cocoa butter
• Aloe Vera gel
• White beeswax pellets
• Yellow beeswax pellets
• Bentonite clay
• Corn starch
• Wool dryer balls

PRINTING SUPPLIES The LifeSteps app is full of fun printables from diffuser cards to weekly trackers to labels for your roller and spray bottles! Use cardstock or sticker paper to easily print them at home.

• Cardstock
• Sticker paper