Thinking about making homemade holiday gifts using essential oils? Invite your friends over for a make-and-take party! At a recent Monthly Education Seminar, Young Living member and party-hosting expert Nance Ciasca not only taught us how to have a successful make-and-take party but also gave us ideas on a “Holiday Gifts” party theme.
Find simple instructions below to make three memorable holiday gifts—Winter Smooth Hand Scrub to comfort skin exposed to harsh elements, Winter Fresh Spray to freshen any indoor environment, and invigorating “The Day After” Bath Salts to use after a big day of rich foods, family, and fun!
Winter Smooth Hand Scrub
- In a Ziploc bag, combine:
1/2 C white sugar
1/2 C brown sugar
1 tsp. V-6 Oil
1/3 C olive oil
10 drops Lavender essential oil or other topical essential oil of your choice
2. Seal bag and knead to mix ingredients.
3. Pour contents into an 8 oz. mason jar.
Winter Fresh Spray
- Unscrew the lid of a clean, empty 2 oz. spray bottle.
- Using a funnel, fill with distilled water up to one finger’s width from the top.
- Add 10 drops Evergreen Essence™ essential oil blend
- Top off with witch hazel and shake well.
- Spray in indoor spaces or onto linens and carpets to add a fresh, aromatic boost.
“The Day After” Bath Salts
- To a 4 oz. jar with cork lid, add
1/4 C Epsom salt
1/4 C Kosher salt
10 drops Eucalyptus Globulus essential oil
10 drops Juniper essential oil
2. Secure the cork top and shake well.
3. Add as desired to a hot bath.
Give your gifts some pizazz by decorating with string, tags, and ribbon. Place the three gifts in a clear confectionery bag and tie off with ribbon and give to neighbors, teachers, friends, family—or yourself!
Organize a hands-on “Holiday Gifts” make-and-take party with these DIYs using our party-planning tips; and tie in the season by playing holiday music, diffusing Christmas Spirit, and serving essential oil-infused hot chocolate!
What other essential oil-infused gifts have you made or received? We’d love to read about your gifts in the comments!
What is a good substitute for the Evergreen Essence since it is no longer available?
Maybe Mountain Savory?
My son’s preschool was needing more play-doh and wanted a Christmas scent so I made some with Christmas Spirit! They loved it.
Thanks for the great ideas! Just curious if you would put an expiration date on any of these or what a rule of thumb for how long to keep them would be?
Hi Abby, Thank you for your question. The sugar scrub should last for up to one month. Make sure to do your best to keep water from getting into the scrub.
The Winter Fresh Spray should also last up to one month. The bath salts should last up to six months. Storing these items in the refrigerator may extend their shelf life.
We recommend using these items quickly or within the suggested time frames mentioned above, however please note that the shelf life may be longer or shorter depending on the freshness of the ingredients used and depending on how each item is stored.
Juniper has been out of stock for several months now. Why would you recommend using it in this themed party when it is not availible?
Thank you for your question, Wanda. Young Living® has spent the last 20 years and counting committed to providing the most authentic essential oils possible. Because ours is a uniquely close partnership with the earth, our supply is deeply tied to nature’s cycles. Although it has been unavailable for an extended period of time due to supply constraints; for those individuals who may already have it on hand, Juniper is recommended for its peaceful aroma and benefits to the skin which is why we included it as a suggestion in this post. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Very good gift ideas
The winter fresh spray idea sounds great. I prefer using Epsom salts as a binder; I prefer to leave out the smell of witch hazel in my essential oils.
I want to make the Winter Room Spray but don’t have the Evergreen Oil, so I will try Pine or Juniper which both are great winter scents and Pine smells just like Christmas trees so I may have to just keep this on hand all season long!
Hi, I wanted to read more about the “party-planning tips”, but the link just takes me to the blog home page. Also, is there a way to search the blogs by subject or key word?
Hi Lynn! We’ve updated our links – thanks for the heads up! The make-and-take party planning tips are here: http://www.youngliving.com/blog/how-to-host-a-young-living-make-and-take-party/. If you go to the top right of the page where all the social media icons are, there’s a magnifying glass icon you can click to search by subject or keyword. Hope this helps!
Love the recipes! thank you! How can I find images for a make & take party that I can change the wording to show my get together info to invite friends online?
Did you ever get an answer to this question? I too would like to know.
Have you check flickr where Young Living has lots of images stored?
Thank you for these cool recipes to use! I will start a YL Recipes “Homebook” for reference. Keep up the great ideas!
Love these ideas! Want to have a notebook for every season and holiday! With 7 (hope 10 soon) grandchildren, have many teachers, principals, counsellors, specialty teachers, nurses, office staff, cafeteria staff, custodial staff–everyone who contributes to a well-run school, who deserve thank you’s plus 7 doctors and their staff members, that I want to thank without breaking the bank! Quality (YL ) and quantity DIY projects always appreciated!
love the gift ideals! Made some for door prizes for my essential oil party Big hit!
The for the great idea & the recipes.
That really helps to see here because I was not sure if we could make recipes! I am going to make them!!
Nancy – We can make them but not sell them.
Thanks for the recipes!
Thank you for these great sounding gift recipes!