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It can be hard to spare the money for your perfumes when everyone is finding things so difficult at the moment. There is a way to save on perfumes and that is by making them yourself at home. Perfume makes a great gift for friends and if you make it yourself it won’t cost you too much either.

The ingredients are readily available in most areas and you can prepare the ingredients using normal kitchen equipment. You might imagine you need a laboratory and a white coated scientist but that just isn’t the case.

You need to decide on the type of fragrance you will make before you can get all the ingredients you need. To make your own perfume you will need some essential oils but apart from that you need little more than water and pure grain alcohol or vodka. You can add additional scents to the mix when you are more experienced but these are all you really need. The different types of perfumes we are all familiar with are cologne, Eau De Cologne and Eau de Toilette.It is a little more involved to make a proper perfume because they are made with blends of animal and vegetable oils.

The way they are chemically composed decides what the results will be like but they will all behave slightly differently. These are inexpensive and are readily available from your local stores. We can start making perfume once we have assembled our ingredients and decided on the equipment we will use for the process.

The most important ingredient in making perfume is the essential oil used to make the perfume you require. Each one of them will have a different chemical composition and you will learn about the different results you will get from each one. It will help if you learn what is meant by the base, middle, top and bridge notes which are all terms used to describe the perfume.

You can find books and other information about making perfume at home on the Internet and you can buy kits that come complete with an instructional manual. These kits cost anything from $30 to $60 and have everything you need for mixing and storing your finished product.

Filed under: 01-Articles on June 27th, 2009