For years and years I loved my ceramic aromatherapy diffuser. It provided a lovely aroma, and a real sense of atmosphere in my room! That’s why I avoided the new electric essential oil diffusers when they first started coming out on the market. It seemed to me that these new diffusers were cold and clinical compared to the traditional ones oil diffuser B0BN8G88YY.
However, somewhere along the way I changed my mind. Firstly, one thing I hated with my ceramic diffuser was that I was going through tealight candles at a rapid rate. I decided to purchase some of the cheaper tealight candles as a result, but they didn’t last as long and they left a great deal of soot on the underside of the diffuser bowl. To me, this soot indicated the candles were no good. The last thing you want with aromatherapy is to pollute the air with soot and goodness knows what other pollutants. For this reason, I chose the more expensive tealight candles, but wasn’t too impressed with the price!
I have a good friend who uses essential oils in her business, and she told me that she had started using the new electric diffusers. I told her of my own skepticism and she explained the benefits to me. For starters, there’s no mess and no soot, and you don’t need a constant supply of good quality tealight candles either. Well, that was quite obvious. However, I still considered electric diffusers somehow inferior. Determined to convince me, my friend gave me an overnight loan of hers. Well, I was prepared to try it out, at least for a night!
One thing I immediately noticed when I tried it: I used less essential oil. This was a big plus! Also, it had the benefit of “set and forget”. I no longer had to constantly check the level of water to ensure I had enough (there’s nothing worse than burning your diffuser dry). I also found that the aroma produced by the oils seemed to penetrate the air better, despite using less oil. So, I did a bit of research. It turns out that the electric diffusers are somehow able to produce microparticles of the essential oils, which allows them to disperse even better.
After an evening’s use of my friend’s diffuser I returned it, my opinion on these new fangled diffusers starting to change. Nevertheless, I went back to using my old ceramic diffuser. I used it for another few days until I ran out of tealight candles again (at the end of a very stressful day), and that’s when I decided to go and buy my own electric aromatherapy diffuser.
Occasionally, I still use my old ceramic diffuser, I think more from nostalgia than anything else. However, most of the time it sits on my mantlepiece looking decorative rather than functional!
