Eucalyptus Essential Oil Shower Melts - This Roller Coaster Called Life (2024)

Eucalyptus Essential Oil Shower Melts

I don’t know about you, but my nose has been stuffy all winter long. Not much has worked to clear it, but inhaling eucalyptus or Vick’s usually does the trick. Here is an easy recipe for Eucalyptus Essential Oil Shower Melts to help clear the nose and to help make it easier to breathe. {Note: To appease the FDA, I’m not saying that eucalyptus will help everything, nor is it a cure-all. Each person reacts differently.}

Supplies needed:

• Ice cube tray, miniature works best
• 1 cup of corn starch
• 2 tablespoons of water
• Mixing bowl, spoon
• 5-7 drops of Eucalyptus Essential Oil(May need to add more EO based on personal preference)
• Green food coloring, optional

Directions:

1. Place the eucalyptus essential oil and corn starch in a bowl. Mix well. The mixture will look like a crumbly powder. You may need to adjust the amount of essential oil based on personal preference. See note below.
2. Add in a few drop of green food coloring (optional) and continue to mix well. You may not notice a great deal of coloring until you do step 3 below.
3. Add in the two tablespoons of water. Continue to mix until the colors disperse and clumps begin to form. Please note that this amount of water will NOT be enough to make the paste you are after. It is however a starting point so you can carefully ration water in and form your paste.
4. Continue adding a few drops of water at a time, mixing well as you do. Once you have a thick paste, transfer the mixture to your mini ice cube tray. Smooth the mixture out flat.
5. Freeze the contents for 1 hour or until the mixture is set.

To use your eucalyptus essential oil shower melts, place the melt on the floor of the shower and turn the water on. You can put the melt in a shallow dish or near the shower drain to keep your shower floor from getting slippery. Enjoy the shower as you usually would, yet as the water and steam hits the melt, it will break down and diffuse the aroma of the oil into the air.

As long as you didn’t overdo the mixture with water, you do not need to leave the melts frozen. You can place them in a jar and store them in a cool, dry place. If your cubes seem like they are runny, opt to store them in the freezer instead.

NOTE: I recently received a message saying that the amount of essential oil did not produce scent in the shower. As there are variations in different companies’ products, the amount of essential oils may need to be adjusted. I’ve done some research on other recipes and have found a wide discrepancy in the amount of essential oil called for going from 5-7 drops to 1/2 ounce (which is an insane number of drops). If you find that the amount of essential oil called for here doesn’t make enough smell in the shower, you should be able to add more by crushing the meltsyou made, adding extra essential oils, and stirring in tiny amounts of water until a paste forms. Then go back to step 4.