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The herbal aroma of the olive oil blends well with the fragrant essential oils, and it isn’t
too oily for anyone, making it the perfect carrier oil for essential oil dilution if you select
a neutral one with a light scent.

For using as a carrier oil to dilute essential oils, you should be careful to choose a real
extra-virgin organic olive oil, and many producers mix their olive oils with other oils
(less healthy oils, and often a dangerous GMO canola oil) to save money.
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Allergies to olive oil are very rare, Olive oil has a score of 2/5 on the comedogenicity
scale, which measures how prone it is to induce acne, 2/5 meaning the oil will not clog
pores for most people.
Other oils such as sunflower seed oil or coconut oil can also be used for essential oil
dilution.

3.2. Sunflower seed oil

When not having some neutral olive oil at hand to dilute the essential oils, you can use
the more affordable alternative, the sunflower seed oil.
It does contain vitamin E, vitamin A and vitamin D, omega 6 and omega 9 fatty acids, and
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plenty of minerals.
Although it is recommended to use the organic, cold-pressed sunflower seed oil for
diluting essential oils, you can even use the refined sunflower seed oil to create a dilution
for the topical application if you have no other vegetable oils to use. It has an, no pun
intended, oily feeling when applied on skin, and absorption of this oil into skin is not as
good as other carrier oils provide, so it is not a particularly good base for essential oil
dilution, but it can be used if you do not have other vegetable oils, or want to have some
of it’s other health enhancing properties.
Sunflower seed oil scores a 0/5 to 2/5 in the comedogenicity scale of the acne-inducing
properties (the lower the oleic acid content of sunflower oil the better the score). It is the
least acne inducing oil of all the carrier oils described in this book.

Most essential oils are produced with distillation, so you will need a distillery,
home-made or from a store. If you don’t have one and don’t want to get one, you will be
able to make less concentrated, already diluted essential oil with the traditional oil
infusion process, which only needs the newly picked herbs you are extracting essential oil
from, a carrier oil of your choice, such as olive oil, (almond oil or canola oil can also be
used) and a glass or ceramic container with a tight lid, such as a jar.
You can even make some essential oils, such as orange essential oil, with just some non
polluted orange peels from organic oranges, some alcohol (pure ethanol or a high alcohol
percentage, neutral tasting drink, such as vodka) and some pots and containers, better yet
glass or ceramic pots. The alcohol will get the oil out of the organic orange peels’ grated
peaces you have left in the sun to dry before, placed in the ceramic container with it, and
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then you will remove the orange peels and leave the container covered with a cloth so the

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