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Tutorial: Pouring Essential Oils (and Other Liquids) Without Spilling a Drop!

1 minute read • Written By Kenna • 20 Comments

Simple Tools for Simple TasksYou know how it goes, you invest a ton of money into all kinds of fragrance oils and essential oils and are so excited to play. But the tricky part is pouring the essential oil or fragrance oil from a completely full bottle without spilling!

There is NOTHING more disappointing then opening that pristine bottle of essential oil that cost an arm and a leg (or maybe it didn’t!), and losing a bunch of it dribbling down the side of the bottle as you try to pour it.

The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread: A Trick for Pouring Essential Oils (and other liquids!)

In comes the best soap making trick I have ever learned, and all you need is a skewer, stirring stick, chopstick, or any other long pointy object. (Well, almost any…) I’ve even used a pencil in a pinch, works great!

Pouring Essential Oils without SpillingGrab that brand spanking new bottle of essential oil (this yummy bottle of Litsea Cubeba came from Bramble Berry), and lay the skewer across the top of the bottle. Now, pour!

If you’re slick, you can do this one handed, but there’s no shame in holding the skewer with one hand and the bottle of essential oil with the other. The last thing you want to do while savoring every drop is to drop the whole bottle!

Be careful not to place your hand in the path of the essential oil (in this picture, my finger is a little further down the skewer than it should be.)

When you begin to pour, the essential oil will grab onto the skewer and travel down it’s surface rather than dribbling down the side of the bottle. Go on, now. Try it.

Pretty nifty, right? I thought so, too!

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Filed Under: Soap Recipes and Tutorials Tagged With: essential oil blends, essential oils, fragrances, soapmaking tutorial

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Hey-ho, I'm the soapy founder of Modern Soapmaking, and I eat, breathe, and sleep soap. (Okay, I don't eat soap... that's gross.) My passion is in helping other soapmakers find their path, whether it's in the craft or as an entrepreneur. Maybe, I can help you find yours?

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  1. Hilda Bahner says

    September 12, 2013 at 4:29 pm

    Great tip , thank you very much !

    Reply
  2. Mellemee says

    November 1, 2013 at 7:40 pm

    I am so glad that I found this, will try it latter. Thank you for your tips!

    Reply
  3. Becky Whaley says

    February 11, 2014 at 3:15 pm

    GREAT TIP!!! Going to try this one tonight!

    Reply
  4. Sandi says

    September 14, 2014 at 12:42 am

    Great tip but I can’t see the pictures. To try it out I’d appreciate a visual – before I waste oils. Any chance of sending me the jpeg image by email please? Thanks!

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    • Kenna C. says

      October 19, 2014 at 6:41 pm

      Hi Sandi! The photos are back up on this post! Thank you for your patience! 🙂

      Reply
  5. drisch says

    September 17, 2014 at 2:45 am

    Same here. Sounds like a great tip, but I can’t see the pictures. (404 error, so I wonder if they no longer exist on the blog…)

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    • Kenna C. says

      September 17, 2014 at 11:29 am

      Modern Soapmaking lost a lot of data a couple weeks ago, and I’m still working on replacing all of the images. 🙂 I’m sorry, they’ll be back soon!

      Reply
      • drisch says

        September 17, 2014 at 8:08 pm

        Ah. Sorry you lost your data. Thank you for working on getting them back up! 🙂

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        • Kenna C. says

          October 19, 2014 at 6:40 pm

          The photos are back! Sorry for the delay! 🙂

          Reply
          • Deanna says

            October 19, 2014 at 10:05 pm

            Awesome! Thank you!!! 🙂

  6. LuAnn says

    October 14, 2014 at 6:03 pm

    I just thought I would check with you……I still can’t see the pictures, and I am terrible at visualizing and would love to see what you are describing! Any chance of a new picture? TY!

    Reply
    • Kenna C. says

      October 19, 2014 at 6:40 pm

      Hi LuAnn! Sorry about the delay, still working on fixing old posts. 🙂 This one is finally fixed up!

      Reply
  7. Shirley says

    December 22, 2014 at 3:15 pm

    What a great idea and it works perfectly.
    Thank you.

    Reply
  8. ashley says

    April 10, 2015 at 5:46 am

    Great tip but if the stick is made of wood and porous will it not soak up some of the oil therefore losing some anyways? Also, you would need a fresh stick for each oil to avoid contamination would you not?

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  9. Han says

    October 9, 2016 at 7:01 am

    M’Lady, you are the MAN.

    Tried it with a toothpick and it picked up all the oil that I had spilt before learning of you tip. (Okay, I made up that last part.)

    Amazing tip. Who doesn’t have toothpicks about?

    Reply
  10. Yunni says

    December 29, 2016 at 4:23 am

    This really helped me thank you!

    Reply
  11. Nikki says

    March 2, 2017 at 8:22 pm

    Single BEST advice I’ve seen so far…Kudos to you, thnx so much…
    I used a dropper today and i was able to pour oils DIRECTLY into a 1 oz bottle
    AMAZING!

    Reply
  12. Chris says

    January 10, 2018 at 11:22 pm

    In chemistry labs this technique is known as “decanting”, great tip. Also very useful for separating suspensions after letting the particles settle. Since the flow of liquid is slower and smoother than usual anything that settled out will stay on the bottom of the jar.

    Reply
  13. Miao says

    March 26, 2018 at 9:12 pm

    Don’t know why I hadn’t thought of doing this. Just today I spilled more FO (which was thankfully not too expensive) on the kitchen scale than what actually made it into my body butter.

    Reply
  14. Tahtahme says

    February 13, 2019 at 2:07 pm

    Really glad you posted this cuz in my mind I was like now I know 200 years ago everyone didn’t have a little glass dropper! 😂

    Reply

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