How to Make Your Own Cologne
If you have a favorite flower in your garden, one you really enjoy because of the fantastic aroma it emits. How would you like to create a cologne with that same fantastic fragrance?
Instructions
Difficulty: Easy
1.
Fill a Mason jar with flower petals, packing them in tightly. Add distilled water to the jar until it is 3/4 full, then add 2 tablespoons of liquid vegetable oil. (Avoid highly scented oils, such as peanut oil, as they will interfere with your fragrance.) Finally, add 1 ounce of unscented rubbing alcohol. Cover the jar with a tight lid and shake contents thoroughly.
2.
Set the jar aside remembering to shake it a couple of times a day, or as often as you like, as shaking the jar will agitate the ingredients and speed up the cologne making process. As the flower petals become saturated with water, the cellular membranes burst. This releases essential oils, as well as some of the coloring pigments. These floral oils escape into the water and cling to the vegetable oil. The alcohol acts as a solvent, dissolving the oils so that they mix with the water.
3.
After a few days, pour the liquid cologne into jars for storage and discard the solids. To keep your cologne pure from some of the settlement, pour your cologne through cheesecloth. Now, add your glycerin. Use 1 ounce of glycerin to a quart of cologne.
Items needed
- Distilled Water
- Unscented Rubbing Alcohol
- Vegetable Oil
- Flowers from your Garden
- Glycerin
Overall tips
- -- Once the flowers have released their essential oils your cologne has reached it maximum strength, leaving the jar set for a longer period of time will not increase the strength of the fragrance. So, usually 2 days is long enough. However, if you want to speed up the process and have your cologne ready to wear in only 1 day, set the jar in a window and shake the jar more regularly to speed the process.
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