Sun Essential Oils Lemon 16 oz Essential Oil

First a little background. I primarily use essential oils in a diffuser and for hobby/gift making of soap and various projects (scrubs, bath bombs, face and body oils, cleaning products). I found none of Sun's oils to be good in soap making!! They are just too weak, so buy quality oils! My favorite, by far, is Edens Garden for their high quality, yet reasonably priced oils. Check out this awesome review of the higher end oils [...] So, onto my review. For ease, I am gong to write one review to include all that I have used and copy/paste onto each variety. Best to worst. ***** Eucalyptus - I found this one to be weaker, but very similar in scent to EG, maybe 90% strength. I use this for a breathing blend in my diffuser and like it well enough. For the price, I would consider ordering this again. ***** Lemon - weak, but pleasant lemon scent. Worth the price to use in cleaning products or diffuser. Five stars reflects value. ***** Grapefruit - only somewhat weaker than EG. Worth the price. Five stars reflects value. *** Ylang ylang - pleasant scent, but weak. Which, actually may work fine since ylang ylang is such a strong scent. I prefer EG. *** Rosemary - weak, but scent is nice enough. ** Lavender - weak and shallow scent. Adequate if you just can't afford the good stuff but I don't recommend. Lavender is the first high quality oil I bought years ago, a splurge at the time, but was never sorry for spending the extra money. * Bergamot - Bergamot is a pretty light scent to begin with, so this weaker version has almost no scent. What scent it does have smells true. -** Peppermint - Blegh. Weak, almost moldy scent.

We use these scents to add to our hand sanitizer. Gives them a great long lasting smell.

Very strong smell

Weak, barely any scent. It must be highly diluted with cheap filler oils. Update: I did change my star rating. You can read the review for the reasons. The company responded to my initial review, and they were gracious enough to send a replacement bottle. The scent on the second bottle was stronger. I had already ordered another lemon oil from another source on Amazon, and the second bottle & that one seem to be equal in scent strength. The other bottle cost considerably more, for exactly half of the product. I am used to "high end" essential oils, where the "big" bottle is 15mL. So I think my expectations may need to be adjusted, as, they aren't equally lemon. Moment of honesty, sometimes you do get what you pay for, so it isn't shocking Sun Essential doesn't smell as strong as the super expensive privately sold 15mL oils. I purchased this oil because I use a lot of lemon, and I was looking for a cheaper alternative, because 15mL doesn't last long. My plan is to mix the second bottle they sent me with a whole bottle of the expensive stuff. I think that will give me the scent boost this product needs, while keeping me on my budget. If it works well, I will be back to update again. * Star Change due to 3 stars for the oil itself. It seems to be an average affordable lemon oil. I don't believe it has any false fragrance to "trick" you into thinking it is higher quality. It is what it is, an affordable lemon oil, and it seems to be average (3 stars) in that category, if anything higher because it is more affordable than the other oils in the same category. An Additional Star for the customer service, I appreciate companies that have integrity and stand by what they sell. Apologies for the long review.

I use it with homemade cleaners. Works very well. Potent scent allows me to use it sparingly so I anticipate the 16oz size will last a long time.

I hope this review helps people I just brought this bottle a few days ago and I was so happy I found a big bottle of this lemon oil I love the smell of lemons but unfortunately it doesn't have a strong smell at all I can smell it on my fingers at first when I first opened the bottle but the smell disappears very fast this made me very unhappy because I used this in my disfusor and all the other oils I have used works no problem it makes my apt smell nice and fresh but this one I can not smell anything it is very weak I tried putting more oil in to see if that would help no it didn't help at all it made the water to heavy with oil that it made my diffuser stop working properly so I had to take the water out and put new water in to get it working again I had to use a different smelling oil I had here because this one just doesn't work maybe someone else will have better luck and get one that has a stronger smell to it I think this one might have gotten mixed wrong maybe they didn't put enough lemon oil in the bottle I hope it was just this bottle because I purchased another bottle but a different fragrance smell I hope this bottle will be better than this fragrance I will not buy this fragrance again I will write a review about the other fragrance I ordered when that one comes and let you know how that one smells and turns out.

Ok smell. Now is the best smell, a1, drip insert is the best, amount used is less.

Seller made up for issue with great customer service! Had to add a few stars for stellar customer service. I'm not a essential oil aficianado and hear about "there is no difference in oils" or Doterra is the best, etc. I thought I would try this out despite some of the more poor reviews. I only use NOW, can't afford Doterra and NOW works just fine. I get this Sun Essential Oils for our Alaskan mosquitos, which are large enough to carry you away and we call our state bird. Well, this stuff is sooo weak in smell you don't need to compare it to anything. If I were to use it for a bug repellent, I would need to use it straight without added a base like I do with NOW. If I had to put a number of dilution on it, compared to NOW, I would have to say minimum of 50% more dilute. My husband has almost no sense of smell and I let him smell the Sun brand lavander first, then the NOW. He could even tell the difference. Don't waste your time on this product. Spend a couple extra dollars and go with NOW. My mosquito repellent usually works better than DEET, with these oils, even at a stronger concentration of oil than I normally use, it did not stop the skeeters.