How to Use an Essential Oil Diffuser 

Enjoy the calming, natural fragrances of essential oils in your home by learning how to use an essential oil diffuser. Bring your stress levels right down and cleanse the air at the same time. Great for room freshening needs!

If you’ve never experienced the delights of diffusing essential oils, then you’re in the right place.

As an avid essential oils user, I love diffusers of every kind (and I’m not ashamed to admit it!)

I’ve got several diffusers around my home for different rooms, which get used daily (sometimes hourly, in fact – and I’m not kidding!)

Perhaps you’re unsure how even to use an essential oil diffuser – if so, I’ll explain everything. 

An essential oil diffuser is a safe and enjoyable way to experience essential oils.

Being fantastic for adding natural fragrance to your living space, they also offer aromatherapy benefits that can greatly improve your mood and overall wellbeing.

I’ll share how to use an essential oil diffuser in this post so you can start experiencing essential oils right away.

Once you start, you’ll not stop, believe me! 

Why Use a Diffuser?

• Natural fragrance: Diffusing essential oils gives your home a pleasant smell using only natural fragrance. You can ditch the artificially scented candles and air fresheners; you won’t even miss them!
• Custom scents: You can completely customize the smell of your home with essential oils by mixing and matching different oils. It’s fun to try unique blends and your home can have a different smell every single day!
• Aromatherapy benefits: Essential oils don’t just smell great, they also offer aromatherapy benefits. Essential oils can help calm and relax, energize, and improve sleep. As you learn about the benefits of each oil, you’ll love selecting your blends based on what you need that day.
• Easy to use: Getting a diffuser set up and running takes just a couple of minutes. It’s such an easy way to get essential oils in your home’s air. I love making homemade room sprays, homemade scented candles, and essential oil air fresheners, but diffusers are certainly the quickest and easiest option.
• No fire hazard: Compared to essential oil-scented candles, diffusers are much safer. They can be used without the same fire hazard risk and you don’t have to remember to turn them off!

How to Use a Diffuser

How Many Drops of Essential Oil to Use

The amount of essential oil to use depends on the size of your diffuser. You may also adjust based on personal preference.

Here is the guidance chart for reference – it explains how many drops of essential oils per the size of the diffuser.

• 200mL diffuser – add 6-10 drops of essential oils
• 300mL – 11-15 drops
• 400mL – 16-20 drops (this is the most common size)
• 500mL – 20-25 drops

If you find that the smell is too strong for you, you can always use fewer drops than recommended.

Safety Notes

Caution must be taken when choosing which essential oils to diffuse. I suggest doing a bit of research first before you add essential oils to your diffuser, especially if you have kids or pets around the house.

Generally, the safest oils to diffuse are those you can use on your skin too, such as lavender, lemon, orange, eucalyptus, and geranium oils. 

While diffusers may be used around all ages, consider reducing the amount of oils when diffusing around younger children. You can also check out these best diffuser blends for children.

Also, ensure you only diffuse your oils in an open, well-ventilated area with good airflow and doors open.

Expert Tips

• It’s worth noting that every diffuser is different; these are general instructions. Be sure to read the instructions that come with your diffuser, too.
• The most important thing to know is that you can’t fill above the max water line, as it’ll drastically reduce the life of your diffuser and potentially cause an overflow on your home surface.
• Note to those who have pets! Pets’ noses are more sensitive than humans – so please make sure they can leave the room if needed.
• It’s important to keep up with regularly cleaning your diffuser. Periodically cleaning it will help prevent mold from building up and help extend its longevity. Learn how to clean your diffuser in my tutorial post.
• If you leave essential oils in a diffuser overnight or even longer, the diffuser will start absorbing the essential oil fragrance, which makes it harder to clean the next time you use it. Try to empty your diffuser after every use and dry it properly, which will help keep it working well. 

Choosing the Right Diffuser

It really is a matter of personal preference when it comes to choosing diffusers.

Some are better from a build quality point of view, whereas others may look nicer displayed in your home.

You need to ask yourself what you want from a diffuser. 

If you only want to diffuse essential oils and use them for fragrance purposes, then you don’t need to spend much money. 

Whereby if you want a lamp feature or to pretty up your decor, you may be looking at something slightly more expensive. 

You could also look into second-hand options – in stores and online, you can pick up some great, used diffusers. Just make sure you give them a good clean before using them. You can learn how to clean a diffuser in my simple tutorial.

My Favorite Diffusers

• Multicolor glowing diffuser
• 7 color 300mL diffuser
• White noise diffuser

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