“Fragrance is the wardrobe of the atmosphere,” says Gus Klein, of Garner Franklin Klein in Dallas. “It’s sort of the final presentation for your home. You can have all kinds of nice things in your house, but the one thing constant is the air you’re breathing.”
What a beautiful way to describe the need to enhance our home environment with essential oils. But why would you choose essential oils over, let’s say, air fresheners and novelty aromatherapy products? Quite simply… you’re taking those substances into your body through your skin and lungs. What you’re also taking in are the chemicals in those products too. More on Aromatherapy.
My favorite two ways of getting the scent of my essential oils into the air are: 1) diffusing, and 2) making my own spray air freshener.
My preferred aromatherapy oil diffuser of choice is the Essential Oil Diffuser (cold-air nebulizer diffuser, shown). This is by far the best way to get my essential oils into the air where they can do their amazing work. It’s only when the microfine mist of the essential oil, coming out of the diffuser, comes into contact with the particles in the indoor air that are the root of the smelly house problem. Once the essential oil comes into contact with them they odor causing particles are either neutralized (in the case of smelly stuff like mildew, smoke, cooking odors, stinky stuff in general), or killed (in the case of microorganisms).
High quality essential oils, such as Young Living, do not mask odors – odors are actually eliminated.
This is actually what I did over twenty years ago, when I first got into essential oils – it is cheap and effective! I made, and still make, my own essential oil spray air fresheners and surface disinfectant. This is so easy and cheap to do that I highly recommend it over store bought air fresheners and novelty aromatherapy products…
You will need a 14 oz. spray bottle (get the one that’s more expensive as the spray trigger will last years, rather than mere weeks before breaking) and some high quality essential oils (don’t even bother with the cheaper aromatherapy oils, they are mostly carrier oils and the small amount of essential oil they do contain is low quality).
Take your spray bottle and fill it 7/8 of the way full with water, then add 20-30 drops of your chosen essential oil single or blend (see some of my favorite choices below). Shake and spray! Yes, it’s that simple!
This homemade spray air fresher you can spray into the air just like you would when using commercial air fresheners – but don’t stop there! Use it to also clean and disinfect kitchen and bathroom surfaces, disinfect door knobs, phones, keyboards, light switches (go lightly though, you do NOT need to drench your surfaces for it to be effective).
Some of my favorite essential oils for the holidays and wintertime for either diffusing or for a spray air freshener are:
- Christmas Spirit – a warm spicy and citrus, uplifting scent.
- Thieves – a spicy, refreshing, and sparkling clean smelling scent.
- Purification – a citrus-citronella scent, a clean smelling scent. I like to add Orange essential oil to this blend for an extra nice fresh scent. In the summertime, add 12-18 drops of Peppermint to Purification and use as a spray to repel tiny ants.
- Citrus Fresh – a citrus, very uplifting aroma, fresh and clean.
- Lavender and Orange: I mix equal portions of both Orange and Lavender essential oils. This smells divine and also helps with stress and anxiety.
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Related articles of interest:
Does Using an Aromatherapy Oil Burner Diffuser Ruin and Essential Oil?
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Evelyn Vincent
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