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Essential Oils and Empty Bottles - 22 Ideas for What to Do With Empty Bottles of Essential Oils

by Kathryn Caywood, LLC

Essential oil users gradually accumulate more and more empty essential oil bottles, but what do you do with this growing collection of empties? Surely not put them with the other glass recycling items. The longer I use essential oils, the more clever ways I discover to use these empty bottles. I hope that the list below will inspire you to give these empties a new life, either with you or with someone else!

PERSONAL USES
1. Make your own health blends of essential oils.
2. Make your own perfume or cologne blends.
3. Sniff them, because the aroma lasts for a long time.

IN THE HOUSE
4. Make your own air freshener. How? Put a few drops of essential oil in an empty glass bottle, add water, shake, and add a spray top.
5. Make your own cooling spritzer in the summer. How? As in #4, but using peppermint essential oil helps cool you off. Did you know that peppermint essential oil can even help bring down a fever?
6. In your house, split up one bottle into several empties. This lets you have several bottles at different places around the house.
7. Put SEVERAL empty bottles into a quart/gallon/whatever of pure water for many different tastes. Ingesting any essential oil brings more oxygen into the system. Always wash the bottles carefully before dropping them into the water.
8. Place the empty bottle, with the cap and orifice reducer removed, right into your filled bathtub.
9. Essential oils have a vibrational energy, so putting a few drops of the Abundance blend, for example, near your computer or phone lets that area benefit from the energy of that blend. Some people put an empty bottle of the Harmony blend in family areas of the home.
10. Tie a pretty ribbon around the top and use the empty bottles (with lids) as Christmas tree decorations.

IN THE CAR
11. If you drive multiple vehicles, split up one bottle into several empties, so you'll have a bottle in each vehicle.
12. Or, you can remove the cap and orifice reducer from an empty bottle and put it under the seat of your car. Especially if the windows remain closed, you get some nice fragrances that way!

TEACHING
13. Because essential oil bottles have different colored labels, you can use the empties as a means of teaching colors to young children.
14. Use the empties - with labels covered - as a means of teaching scent recognition.

WHEN YOU NEED A SMALLER BOTTLE OR LESS WEIGHT
15. Essential oils come in different size bottles, ranging from 15 milliliters to 5 milliliters. When traveling by plane, you may want less weight and more space, so you can put however many drops of the oil you think you'll need into the 5 milliliter size empty bottle.
16. Likewise for your purse or pocket. If the empty bottle originally contained something different from the 15 milliliter bottle, I use my label maker to make a black-on-white label for the 5 milliliter bottle.

PROBLEMS WITH THE BOTTLE
17. The lids of empties can be used to replace the child-proof lids, especially for grownups who cannot easily open the child-proof lids.
18. Over time, essential oil companies sometimes experiment with different orifice reducers. If you don't like the new ones, use one from an empty bottle.
19. If the bottom edge of the bottle becomes chipped -- maybe you dropped it on a hard surface -- pour the oil from this bottle into an empty bottle and throw the chipped bottle away.

SHARING
20. Add 10 to 15 drops to an empty bottle and give as a gift to friends and family.
21. If your business sells essential oils, put 10 drops of a given oil into an empty bottle and let your customer or new distributor try this, instead of them having to buy a large bottle without knowing for sure whether they will like it. This builds good will.
22. As I'm writing this, I'm thinking that some of our war veterans might appreciate an empty bottle into which a few drops of a comforting essential oil blend has been placed.

All of these ideas are written with the assumption that (a) you are using only therapeutic grade essential oils and that (b) you will refer to the Essential Oils Desk Reference for your choice of oils and for all safety precautions. For more tips and tools on using essential oils or for my free newsletter, I invite you to visit http://www.EssentialOilsLady.com and click on Resources or Newsletter. And when you're ready to get started using essential oils, I invite you to visit http://www.EssentialOilsProducts.com and look for the Essential 7 Kit.

DISCLAIMER: The content presented in this website is for informational purposes only.
It is not intended to diagnose, treat or prescribe for any health condition.
Consult with your certified health professional for guidance in all health conditions.
This information refers only to essential oils that are labeled as “Pure 100% therapeutic grade essential oils.”
Although certain of these essential oils have been classified as the FDA as GRAS (generally regarded as safe),
as food additives, or as dietary supplements, some essential oils should be used with caution.
The best resource for usage and safety information is the “Essential Oils Desk Reference.”