I never thought that I would become obsessed with essential oils like I am now. I typically bought and burned candles in my apartment, especially while in the Winter time holidays. My closet is full of boxes of votive and pop light candles in various scents from pine to peppermint. Although organic candles don’t have any potentially toxic fillers, they’re also a lot more costly to purchase than the cheap a singles with synthetic ingredients. If you use these candles weekly, you could end up developing an costly habit that rivals some drug addictions in cost. Discovering essential oils couldn’t have come at a better time because my rent increased and my salary hasn’t budged in over two years. I bought an essential oil diffuser for $20 and have become enamored with the affordable $6 bottles of oil at the local supercenter. They are sometimes equal in quality to the $20 bottles of “premium” oil, and they tend to last for weeks if I rotate them. Recently I l gained that I can get the stinks to circulate throughout my entire house if I put the diffuser near my air return. Whenever the cooling system starts to cycle, it pulls the oil vapors into the HVAC duct and then redistributes it to every room. By the time the cooling system is finished with its cycle, you will have a pleasant essential oil stink in every room. This prevents having to put oil directly on my cooling system filters, which I’m not fond of doing. It’s so much easier to just strategically arena my oil diffuser so the vapors get into the Heating & Air Conditioning air return.