New Directions Aromatics

Lavender, peppermint, eucalyptus, frankincense, and over 200 more. This is where your best formulas begin, whether that's a diffuser blend, a whipped body butter, or your signature room spray.

Every essential oil is 10% off through October 15, with flat rate shipping on orders.

It's officially fall, and your body care routine should be too 🍂

Swap your light summer lotions for something richer. This whipped body butter is thick, fluffy and melts right into skin, with pumpkin seed oil bringing that cozy fall feel. It takes six steps and makes 200g, so it's perfect for testing a seasonal SKU or making small-batch gifts.

Whipped Pumpkin Seed Body Butter:
(Makes 200g)

🌿 74g Shea Butter (Refined)
🌿 44g Cocoa Butter
🌿 72g Pumpkin Seed Carrier Oil
🌿 4g Arrowroot Powder
🌿 4g Fragrance Oil - We recommend AFI's version of White Pumpkin Amber by Nature's Garden
🌿 2g Vitamin E

Melt the shea butter, cocoa butter and pumpkin seed oil in a double boiler until fully liquid.
Chill in the fridge until solid.
Whip with a hand mixer until light and fluffy.
Add the arrowroot powder, vitamin E and fragrance oil.
Whip again until fully combined.
Jar it up and leave uncapped for an hour.

Shop ingredients, link in bio.

Honeyed Matcha works beautifully in a perfume balm.

It opens green and clean, then the honey comes up underneath it. In a solid it stays close to the skin rather than projecting, so you get that shift slowly over the course of the day.

Here's the formula:
7.35g Beeswax
7g Golden Jojoba Oil
7g Shea Butter
0.35g Honeyed Matcha Fragrance Oil
0.2g Vitamin E Oil

Add Honeyed Matcha at the leave-on rate your IFRA documentation supports, and pour yourself a test tin before you commit to a batch.

It scales nicely, too, twenty tins or two hundred, it's the same formula with the fill adjusted!
Shop now at New Directions Aromatics.

Aloe Vera Gel goes where your distilled water goes.

Water is usually the biggest part of a lotion, so this isn't a small swap. A 20kg batch with a 70% water phase means 14kg of aloe instead of 14kg of water. Cost per unit moves, and so does your label! Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice jumps to the top of your ingredient list, and it's one of the few INCI names a customer automatically recognizes on a shelf. Swap the water, and upgrade the label.

Ready to formulate? Find our Aloe Vera Gel in the link in bio.

Some of the best formulas are the shortest ones.

This body butter takes two things: Nue Whip – Unscented and our Pistachio Crème Fragrance Oil. Soften the whip just enough to work it, fold the fragrance through, and jar it. There's no heating, no emulsifying, and nothing to cure before it's ready.

Pistachio Crème is toasted nut, almond milk, and soft praline - one of six in the Cultured Gourmand Collection.

Nue Whip is vegan, plant-based end to end - the whipped expression of our Botanical Tallow base. It comes in sizes from 3.3 oz up to 44 lb pails, so the same formula carries whether you're filling a dozen jars or a production lot.

And if you'd rather skip the mixing altogether, Pistachio Crème Nue Whip is already whipped and already scented, ready to fill!