| Intro | Benefits of DIY Air Freshener | How to keep your home Smelling Clean | Common Ingredients around the home | Stovetop recipe | Fabric softener recipe | Cotton oil balls recipe | Essential oil-infused recipe |
How to make Homemade air freshener. Save yourself from inhaling chemicals from industrially made air fresheners with this DIY homemade air freshener.
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Intro to DIY Air Freshener
Particularly, one thing people immediately notice about your house is its smell. A good-smelling house is obviously a thing of pride and confidence. Contrarily, a bad-smelling house creates awkwardness and a bad reputation.
Generally, you will be judged if your house stinks just like you would judge someone’s stinky house.
Although judgments aside, it’s just better to have a nice scenting house. Markedly, It’s a clean house and a clean house is a good step toward creating a home.
Furthermore, in my experience with essential oils in aromatherapy candles, I discovered a different side to home care.
This DIY homemade air freshener doesn’t shine blindly into the eye. It especially doesn’t have a corny shape. Most importantly, doesn’t smell like chemicals and artificial greatness.
Markedly, every time I made a candle, it left a sweet smell of whatever essential oils I used. My workroom obviously became the best-smelling room in my apartment. Thereafter, I decided to do more research on using essential oils. That led to this DIY homemade Air freshener recipe(s) for enhancing the scent of the home.
Although not everyone has an interest in their reproductive system, harmful chemicals can explicitly cause collateral damage to your body. Some of these harmful chemicals are hardly mentioned among the ingredients list despite being labeled tested and safe.
Why should you make A DIY homemade air freshener?
It may seem like a lot of work. Albeit, there has been substantial evidence reported by the NRDC. This report stated that some of the easy-access air fresheners have harmful chemicals that affect even our reproductive system.
In contrast, making your own homemade DIY air fresheners has the following benefits;
- You become keener on scents. The journey towards customizing the scent of your house is very interesting, filled with wonderful names and smells.
- You get to customize the smell of your house due to the extensive options laid out for you in the world of scents.
- There are mostly no harmful ingredients compared to store-bought air fresheners
- You acquire a skill by making your own air freshener
- You can make money from selling your homemade air fresheners
- It’s a natural experience and it’s good for your community
- It is affordable because the ingredients are inexpensive and easy to source
How to keep your home smelling good
The key to an effective homemade air freshener is keeping your house clean.
There are so many elements that aid to wreck the smell of your house. From the sink, drainage, dirty laundry, old and bad food, pet litter, uncleansed upholstery and furniture, accumulated dirt, etc.
The following are ways you can keep your house smelling clean;
- Let air in, I beg you to open your windows, and let fresh air into your room. (Although this depends on the weather). Let the air in to take away the smell of dust and old things. A stuffed house can make you sick. Aerate your living and working quarters as much as possible. Your body needs clean oxygen to function for a reason.
- Organize your space. Keep your place looking clean. Create an organization system for your house that works for you. Identify dirty things from clean things and separate them. Keep your clean laundry separate from your dirty laundry. Organize your shoes. Keep them outside for airing and drying. Clean out dirty plates and store clean ones properly. Don’t live your trash open or keep dirty food open. Take care of your surroundings and take care of your health. Its self-love
- You can decide to start keeping indoor plants. They add a burst of freshness and aesthetic to a house. Especially the ones that are well taken care of. Some plants have air purifying qualities more than others. But it is a known fact that plants take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. Hence, including a plant in your family, and actually taking care of it can help your health. As well as the plant’s health…mi casa e su casa, right?
- Clean your drainage and sinks with a hot water and salt mixture. This mix is very functional in removing tiny micro-organisms and other irksome elements that may be hiding in your drainage. Clean your drainage and skinks with a mixture of vinegar and baking soda. This is one of the most effective ways to clean and even unclog the drainage at home.
Common Ingredients found around the house can be used to make your house smell nice.
These include;
- Water: Tap water is fine, any water is fine as long as it’s clean. But if you must use sparking water, be my guest.
- Essential oils: The inconsumable sweet scenting extracts from plants are used mainly in aromatherapy.
- Baking soda: This is a popular cleaning agent found in the kitchen.
- Fruits, herbs, and spices: It’s not weird for these to make it to this list. Evidently, some fruits, spices, and herbs have very nice and impactful smells.
- Rubbing alcohol: This is used as a disinfectant while making homemade air fresheners.
- Fabric softener: Some fabric softeners have very delicate scents and can be used to improve the smell of the home.
- Vanilla sticks/powders: This needs no explanation as most people enjoy the smell of vanilla. It can be used to make the home smell nice too when heated openly
- Cinnamon: Same as vanilla. A little heating is needed to explore the scent of the house.
4 homemade air freshener recipe
first recipe;
Stovetop DIY air freshener:
Cooking has revealed the power of the scent of food. Our kitchen always smells like whatever we cook.
A quick recipe to help enhance the smell of your house is heating up sweet-scenting food items. Such as spices, herbs, or fruits.
There are many combinations toward this end. Obviously, there are no limits to the food items that could give your home a scent.
For this recipe, you would need;
- Obviously, a “stove”.
- A small or medium pot without the lid, and filled ¾ with water.
- Vanilla for scent
You may add to or substitute vanilla with any of the following;
The list is long and flexible. Moderate your combinations because too much of everything is never good.
To prepare;
- Heat your chosen ingredients without closing the pot.
- Leave on low heat for as long as you’d like. You may continuously add water to avoid burning your house.
- I believe this recipe is fit for smaller units of the house or single units of the house. It might not circulate through the whole house.
- Remember to leave your windows and inside doors open for proper circulation.
The second recipe
Homemade air freshener with fabric softener
For this, DIY homemade air freshener, you would need;
- Hot water
- Water
How to make;
- Fetch ¾ of hot water into a mop bucket
- Pour in 2 caps of fabric softener
- Using your mop stick, or handheld/ vacuum, clean the floor of your house.
This method is best used to finish floor cleaning.
It leaves a very pleasant smell in your house. You can use this to clean your bathroom and kitchen as well.
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The third recipe;
How to make homemade air freshener with Essential oils in cotton balls
Soaking up Essential oil into cotton balls and placing them around the house. This method is to combat bad smells around smaller details of the house. This is simple and can be done without a hassle.
You need the following;
- A small empty jar with a tight lid.
To make this DIY homemade freshener;
- Clean an old jar with methylated spirit or Rubbing alcohol
- Insert as many cotton balls as you can fit into the jar without stuffing it too much.
- Drop about 60 drops of Essential oils around the balls
- Cover the lid tight and keep for overnight
- Place the individual cotton balls in different and discreet positions in the house. Especially in places that are most likely to have bad smells.
- You can leave some in the jar and place it in your kitchen or bathroom. Store it away from the reach of children, and label it, please.
The fourth recipe
How to make air freshener with Essential oil air freshener.
This one gets sprayed around the house and has aromatherapy and antibacterial functions.
Ingredients needed include;
Water
You need
- A small spray bottle.
How to make;
- Fill half of the bottle with Rubbing alcohol
- Add a few squirts of the liquid dishwashing soap
- Add about 50 drops of desired essential oil or (25 drops each of 2 mixes of Essential oil)
- Add water to Fill the bottle
- Give it a good shake
- Label the bottle for safety’s sake and store it in a safe place.
- Use as desired, spray around the house on clean-up day while letting air in through the windows. Paradise.