Substituting Oils
With over two hundred essential oils, absolutes, resins, CO2s and carrier oils available for aromatherapy work, and taking into consideration that some oils are very expensive, it would be too costly to have every available oil. For this reason it will be necessary to find substitutions for some oils that you may not already have.
Once you have found the aromatherapy recipe where you may not have all the oils that are called for in that recipe, you can try creating the recipe with other oils that you may have. The aroma or therapeutic outcome will not be identical to your original recipe, but you can often get similar results by carefully substituting an oil that you do have on hand.
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