Do essential oils break down resin?

  • This topic has 6 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 3 years, 8 months ago by isabelle cerceau brandão.
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    • #9913
      Katherine Swift
      Keymaster

      This 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?

    • #9914
      Katherine Swift
      Keymaster

      Hi 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.

    • #9942
      Katherine Swift
      Keymaster

      Hi 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.

    • #9965
      Rhonda J Hunter
      Guest

      I 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):(

    • #34179
      Mary
      Guest

      I 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?

    • #82391
      Selena
      Guest

      This 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.

    • #85099
      isabelle cerceau brandão
      Guest

      Hello! 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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