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isabelle cerceau brandão.
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- August 22, 2017 at 11:09 pm #9913
Katherine Swift
KeymasterThis question comes from Stacy:
Looking for opinions on resin pendants with a slit/hole and putting a felt pad in it with essential oils on it to have a diffuser neckless. Would the essential oils brake down the resin?
- August 22, 2017 at 11:10 pm #9914
Katherine Swift
KeymasterHi Stacy,
Great question! I would expect them to be impermeable right away, but I don’t know long term. Let me see if I can poll my panel of experts for help.
- August 24, 2017 at 1:41 pm #9942
Katherine Swift
KeymasterHi Stacy,
Both the chemists I spoke with have not tested using essential oils in resin, but expect that it should not permeate a cured resin surface.
- August 26, 2017 at 5:41 am #9965
Rhonda J Hunter
GuestI have earrings made like this from Avon, many years old, mostly resin, and they are still like new. (can’t get the little diffuser pads any more):(
- March 7, 2019 at 12:57 pm #34179
Mary
GuestI have tried to use the essential oils with the resin, and it makes the resin very stick, and does not harden correctly. I’m thinking on trying to use a blank piece of air freshener paper on the back of the item, to see how that works. I guess I’ll try and use an adhesive to adhere the card to the resin. What do you think?
- September 13, 2019 at 12:46 am #82391
Selena
GuestThis is to Mary, if you use oils in UV resin, and it comes out sticky with the oils, cure it both with a UV light AND the sunlight. Do one for 5 then the other for 5, this should help with stickiness.
- July 21, 2020 at 11:16 am #85099
isabelle cerceau brandão
GuestHello! I came to the site hoping to find an answer about essential oils spoiling the cured resin pieces.
I found no answers.
did someone test putting a few drops of essential oil on resin pendents? I would like to make diffuser necklaces to use essential oil, where there is a hole to drip the oils and use to aromatherapy. however, some people have told me that the resin is not resistant to essential oil.
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