Essential oils that can not be mixed together?

Question

I have these oils on hand: lavender, tea tree, lemon, oregano, sweet orange and grapefruit seed extract.

I was thinking of mixing some of these together. Are there any oils that should not be mixed?

Answer 1

You can mix any of these together. Note that grapefruit seed extract is not an essential oil. There is a bit of an art in blending pure essential oils. The citrus oils are considered high notes and evaporate quickly; it is good to have some base notes like vetiver to ground the other oils so they will be more long lived.

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Answer 3

If you are using pure EO (there are synthetic or second-rate EO on the market, labeled in such a way they confound the customers), then, in principle, there should be no incompatibility between any oils.

However, you will find that oregano tends to overpower EVERYTHING - although a very small amount (say, 1/2 drop) with 10-15 drops of Tea-tree could be an interestingly smelling - not to mention germ-killer - mix... ;)

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Answer 4

Tea Tree EO will not blend well with any of these listed.  This isn't because of its healing properties, but because of the smell.  When you use an EO, a big part is the aroma-therapy, and Tea Tree is just strong-smelling!  Lavender will blend well with Sweet Orange and/or Grapefruit, but I would not blend with Lemon.  You might be able to blend Lavender and Oregano together, but I don't think it would smell very well.  Besides, EO of Oregano has very strong healing properties on its own, I just wouldn't blend it with anything else because you would not want to dilute its properties.  Oregano, like Tea Tree, is good on its own.  Sweet Orange, Lemon and Grapefruit all are considered *top notes* in the fragrance department, so you want to blend them with an EO that is a low or middle-note, such as Sandlwood, Patchouli, Cedarwood, Rosewood, etc.  (these are the EO's that have a woodsy/earthy fragrance to them).  Lavender can be millde or top note.  When they are blended together properly, you not only combine the fragrances for a lasting effect on the olfactory senses, but you also combine complimentary healing properties.

Answer 5

There is no reason to avoid mixing them together.  GSE is not an essential oil.