Making Aromatherapy Blends for Your Pets – Helping Horses, Dogs & Cats
Have you ever wondered – Can I safely and effectively use aromatherapy for my pet’s emotional and behavioral needs? Yes, you can!
Just fifteen years ago, there was little readily available information, let alone documented results, regarding creating and using aromatherapy with pets. Because of this, many pet parents today are tentative about using essential oils with their pets. Their concerns include how to be certain the essential oils themselves are safe, how to make blends that are the correctly diluted for safety and effectiveness according to the pet’s species, and how to apply the blend.
Today we know how to use scientific testing to assure that our essential oils are safe and will perform as expected. And, we have documented examples of how to strategically and effectively dilute and apply blends to pets.
Holistic aromatherapy has a particular advantage when it comes to addressing pets’ emotional and behavioral needs. It can be used in a targeted fashion, which is more beneficial than the one-size-fits-all products available in the marketplace.
Evaluating Your Pet’s Needs
Since every pet is unique, as a pet parent, you may feel isolated when trying to understand how to best approach meeting their needs. Using a Pet Assessment Checklist like the one I provide in the Create Holistic Aromatherapy Blends for Your Pets course at JennScents Aromaversity, gives you a list of questions, per animal, designed to identify the most common behaviors that horses, dogs and cats exhibit when they need support. This way, rather than generally describing and trying to help a pet who is “anxious”, the actual source of the anxiety can be addressed.
Targeted pet needs and relief that can benefit from using aromatherapy include:
- Needing to feel more calm
- Inability to relax or wind down
- Difficulty focusing
- Grief
- Discomfort while traveling, physically and/or psychologically
- Separation (needing connection)
- Fear of loud noises such as thunder, fireworks, and construction
- Lashing out physically or verbally at other pets or people
- Lacking confidence
- Running or hiding from uncomfortable situations
Choosing the Best Quality Essential Oils to Get Results for Your Pet
When choosing essential oils for your pet’s blend, quality matters in order to get your intended results. Here are some key factors to identify and assess first:
- Scientific testing
- Reviewing the attributes the pet needs
- Identifying the botanical name that delivers your desired results
- Proper storage
- Reputable suppliers that support sustainability & conservation
Making a Safely Diluted Aromatherapy Blend from Start to Finish
There are specific steps for making oil-based, water-based, and hydrosol-based blends for your pets. Being educated with expert led tips will save you time, expense, and frustration.
Your pet may sometimes need just one well-rounded aromatherapy blend. And sometimes your pet will need a combination of blends to address more than one issue, and to get the best results.
3 factors to create an aromatherapy blend for pets, from start to finish are:
- Know your Pet’s blend purpose
- Know the essential oils you are using & their safety precautions
- Formulate using the proper dilution and potency ratios
Following proper safety guidelines and dilution ratios based on your pet, their sensitivities, and weight is of the utmost importance.
Learn specific safety guidelines, dilutions, and specialized holistic blend recipes in the Create Holistic Aromatherapy Blends for Your Pets course at JennScents Aromaversity.
Safe & Effective Aromatherapy Blend Applications for Your Pet
Application methods help deliver the essential oil benefits to your pet. However, you need to do this using proper safety guidelines to deliver effective results. Four popular blend applications for your pet are:
- Horse blend application – topical & inhalation therapy
- Dog blend application – oil-based blends
- Dog blend application – water-based blends
- Cat blend application – inhalation only (not putting the blend on the cat)
Learn safe & effective blend recipes & results from several case studies in this class.
Observing Your Pet’s Progress After Use
Tracking your pet’s progress with my Pet Assessment Checklist that I provide in this pet aromatherapy class helps you follow their results. Once the blend is applied according to specified guidelines and timelines, you need to know when desired results have been achieved, and when to discontinue the aromatherapy blend. Most people stop before it’s time.
As blends work with your pet, you will feel confident in adjusting blend components and application schedules as needed. Your pets will feel so much better too.
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Resources:
Aromatherapy Guide for Pets, Jennifer Pressimone
The Six Steps for Making an Aromatherapy Blend for Your Dog, Cheryl D. Beller
About the Author:
Cheryl D. Beller, MBA, completed her Certification in Clinical Aromatherapy through JennScents Aromaversity. Through Cheryl’s business, Well Scents, she spent more than twelve years working with pet parents of horses, dogs, and cats utilizing aromatherapy to address pets’ behavioral and emotional issues. As a result of the blends, pet parents connected and bonded more deeply with their pets and enjoyed more harmonious households. Based on this work, Cheryl has authored this online class for anyone interested in learning to create safe and effective pet blends. This class gives concise instructions, real life stories and examples, and is applicable for all levels of aromatherapy students. Cheryl has also published her book The Six Steps for Making an Aromatherapy Blend for Your Dog, and a similar book for horses is in progress.
