About Essential Oil Rollers
Looking for a way to stretch those precious essential oils of yours? Here’s all about essential oil rollers. This post covers the basics.
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As I continue in my journey with essential oils, I have come to appreciate rollers. I love combining different scents.
What is an Essential Oil Roller?
First off, a roller is a small vial with a roller ball on top. This allows you to roll the contents onto places like your wrists or the bottoms of your feet. Such bottles are available online, as well as on the doTerra website. A small funnel to fill the bottle is handy as well.
The roller contains diluted essential oils. Essential oils can be very effective, even when diluted. They are diluted because sometimes pure oil can be a bit much. Also, given the cost of essential oils, this stretches your oil, making it last longer.
Typically the essential oils are diluted with fractionated coconut oil. FCO is a liquid form of coconut oil in which the fatty acids have been removed. It is NOT the same as the coconut oil you find in the supermarket and may cook or bake with. Because of its properties, it absorbs into the skin more easily. It also has no odour and therefore will not affect the essential oils at all. You can find FCO online, as well as the doTerra website.
Alternatives to FCO include sweet almond oil or jojoba oil. Both of these have similar properties and will also work.
Some Essential Oil Suggestions
For the essential oils, you can pretty much put any oil in a roller that you wish to apply to your skin. It can be as simple as a single oil like lavender or you could combine oils to make a blend.
The oils you want to use will depend on the purpose. Do you want something to cheer you up? Or perhaps something to help you relax? Maybe you want something to help you sleep? You can pretty much make a roller for anything.
Searching the internet for roller recipes can be overwhelming. Plus, when I do it, they seem to all contain essential oils that I don’t have. So start with what you have. Look at what each of the oils is good for and go from there. Remember that it does not have to be a blend – you can make a roller with a single oil.
Here are some of the oils that I have and what I started with. Many of these I talked about in my post, 5 Essential Oils to Get You Started. These are pretty basic but a great starting point..
- Lavender – this can be both relaxing and uplifting. You can use this straight or combine it with something else.
- Wild Orange – this smell is so invigorating and always uplifts my mood. Try combining wild orange with lavender
- On Guard – this is my go-to oil in terms of an immunity boost. It works well by itself but can also be stretched with tea tree oil, frankincense or oregano oil.
- Tea Tree – I use this a lot for cleaning, but it’s anti-bacterial qualities are great for acne. I combined tea tree with lavender for an effective acne roller.
- Frankincense – this is pricey but so worth it. This oil can do it all. I put this in almost every roller I have.
Sometimes it’s hard to know if oils will go together. What I do first is diffuse a combination and see if I like it. Sometimes they go together really well and other times, I’ll admit they’ve been off-putting.
Regardless of the oils you use, you want to make sure you have good quality, pure oils from a reputable company. I love using doTerra oils as I know what I am getting is pure.
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How Much Do I Use?
The great thing with these essential oil rollers is that a little goes a long way.
For a 10ml roller bottle, you could start with 10-15 drops of essential oils. As mentioned, this can be as simple as one single oil, or a combination of 2 or 3 oils.
For a stronger smell, simply add a bit more. You could fill your roller bottles approximately 25% full and then top with the oil carrier of your choice.
I love the flexibility of these roller bottles. It really helps stretch those essential oils and make them last.
How to Use an Essential Oil Roller
I always like to give my roller a gentle shake before applying. This ensures that nothing has settled and that it is mixed.
Apply your roller to pulse points – wrists, temples or behind the ears.
How to Label Your Essential Oil Rollers
Here’s where my love of crafting comes through. Adhesive vinyl works well for labelling these rollers. For details about how to cut and apply adhesive vinyl, check out my post – All About Adhesive Vinyl,
I chose a pretty font and cut it out of vinyl that matched my roller bottles.
I like to use keywords to label my roller bottles. The word just sums up the purpose of the roller. I do keep notes separate as to what I put in these rollers in the even I want to recreate it again.
An alternative would be using a waterslide decal. This would allow you to add colour and more details to your labels. Check out my post All About Waterslide Decals here.
