Questions and Answers about Aroma Oil Burner.

Aroma oil burner or sometimes people call aromatherapy oil burner, essential oils burner, tealight diffuser are a traditional device to be used in aromatherapy. It's very cheap and for a beginner, I would suggest to use this first than other aroma diffusers.

Although aromatherapy oil burner is very simple in use and design but many people still make a mistake in using it. Here you can find simple questions and answers about aromatherapy oil burner. This way you can find more benefit from it.

What is aromatherapy oil burner?
Aroma oil burner is a device that has flat space to hold the candle in a bottom area and above has some type of bowl to hold water and a few drops of oil.

Here are some example of aromatherapy oil burner:

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How does aromatherapy burner works?
The heat from the candle gently evaporates the water and oils together into the surrounding air.

How to use oil burner?
Fill the top bowl with water and just add a few drops of essential oil of your choice and light the candle.

Where should you put aromatherapy oil burner?
Since it will get hot, you should put aromatherapy oil burner in a heat proof surface.

How many water should I add?
One or two tablespoon of distilled water depend on how large is the bowl.

How to mix essential oil blend for aroma oil burner?
If you want to put essential oil blend in oil burner, please mix it first in different container. You can't put different oil directly in the oil burner.

Do you have to dilute them first in base oil?
It is not necessary to dilute them. However, if you want to dilute them. The blends should be 2 - 5 drops in 10 ml of base oil.

What base oil work best on aroma oil burner?
Jojoba oil. Jojoba oil wouldn't get evaporated not like water.

How long should I burn it?
In an average room it is only necessary to burn it for around 20 minutes to get the benefit from it.

When we used it over and over again, sometimes stink will come out, because of water does evaporation. What should I do?
If the water does evaporate and leave a stain, you can remove it with orange oil.

Nowadays, we have find some electric diffusers and nebulizer which can diffusing therapeutic grade essential oils into a fine mist, which is useful in delivering essential oils to deeper parts of the respiratory tract. Does this mean oil burner has least function for treatment purpose?
Not exactly. In ancient times, people didn't use electric ones but they still get some advantages in using oil burner. Mostly they used it to fight all kinds of viruses.

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