In the general home atmosphere, aromas play an important role. The apartment filled with unobtrusive pleasant smells becomes more cozy. It is nice to return after a hard day, and in the weekend you can completely relax and get therapeutic psychological discharge. There are many flavoring products on sale, but not all of them are completely harmless and ideal in their composition. The article will be told about how to make air freshener from essential oils with their own hands.
What are the benefits?
In addition, you can be a creator of your favorite fragrance, showing creativity and making it unique, The flavoring agent made at home, there are other important advantages.
- Naturalness and harmlessness. Components can be chosen by themselves, given the features of the health of members of their family. And, of course, you do not have to add synthetic substances and chemistry. And if someone from your loved ones is allergic to certain natural essential substances, you simply do not add these components to your home flavoring.
- Many who are trying to produce familiar home to do with their own hands, noted that in the end it turns out to save well, because manufacturers include their risks, transportation costs and so on. And if you have mastered the algorithm for the manufacture of flavoring, you just need to purchase the necessary components. In this case, you do not overpay for packaging and many unnecessary elements in the composition of aerosols and other artificial fresheners.
- A fragrance made of high-quality natural essential oils will not make an excessive odor. Incorporations often add substances, artificially reinforcing the activity of fragile particles. As a result, the smell becomes strong and unnatural. But the light pleasant fragrance of the homemade refreshing device will not be at all so annoying, but, on the contrary, will create a cozy atmosphere.
A little about flavors
It has long been proven that various essential oils not only adorn the air with their aroma - they also affect the psyche, general human health.
You can even choose a whole healing "bouquet" pleasant to smell sensations, that is, smells.
- Coniferous smells (fir, fir) Provide fresh notes of cool forest air. Aromatic coniferous oils can disinfect air. They also have a pronounced antidepressant action raising the mood. They are recommended to inhale people subject to depression during the decline of forces. They are effective and as a prophylactic remedy for viral diseases.
- Citrus aromas (lemon, grapefruit, orange) Also help struggle with the oppressed state and depression. Fill the air with sweet fresh notes, thereby increasing the cheerfulness and raise the mood. It is very useful to use these fragrances in your apartment in autumn and winter time. Especially positively citrus smells perceive children. In addition, like coniferous, natural esters of this group also have a strong antibacterial effect. Some argue that citrus oils, especially lemon, scare annoying insects: mosquitoes, midges, whipping.
- Jasmine oil It has a refined, gentle aroma. It helps to focus and calm down. Creative people are especially sensitive to it and often prefer jasmine oil to other ether. In addition, Jasmine improves sleep, drives insomnia and anxiety, soothes during a long stress. In the house where this fragrance is present, relationships are being established, and harmony prevails.
- Sage oil - A very powerful healing agent having a spicy herbal smell. In addition to combating microbes living in the air, sage essential particles are able to stimulate mental activity, improve memory, soothe. The fragrance of Sage was recommended to inhale in migranes, as it has distracting and antispasmodic effect.
- Verbena It is considered the aroma of successful, happy people living in harmony with them and surrounding. The esters of this plant are charged with positive, drive bad thoughts and help in the disclosure of creative potentials. Students and people of mental labor are very useful to this smell. Its regular inhalation stimulates brain cells, relieves fatigue, improves sleep.
- Cinnamine It has a sweetly pleasant aroma. First of all, the smell of cinnamon is associated with delicious baking. And the nonsense is this seasoning is used to prepare many dishes: cinnamon has a positive effect on the emotional state, lifts life tone. In the general atmosphere of the apartment, cinnamon oil brings comfort. A sense of a permanent holiday and a raised mood is created.
How and what to do?
Deciding with the choice of fragrance, you can start making homemade adaptation to aromatize the apartment. However, you can use your flavor not only for premises. There is no interference to refresh the air in the car or with it to give a pleasant fragrance of bed linen and other beloved things.
Sprayer aromas
For the manufacture of this simple, refreshing air device, you need to prepare a sprayer and a small plastic bottle with a screw neck. It is even better if you manage to find glass bottles or bottles with a suitable for screwing the sprayer.
So, in the selected container you need to pour 150-200 ml of cooled boiled water. You can also use purified distilled. Then there you need to add about 10 drops of the selected essential oil. In the future, you can adjust the number of essential components depending on personal sensations.
If you picked up the composition of the aromas, pour 2-3 drops of each oil. The main thing is not to overdo it!
Sprayer for air aromatization is ready. Before use, it is desirable to shake it.
Aromatizer from gelatin
To create and maintain a pleasant smell in a room, you can use a kind of "jelly", which will be constantly published for a few days.
Gelatin must be taken in the amount of 2 tbsp. Spoons, pour it with a glass of warm water, stir and warm on low heat to complete dissolution. For a more beautiful visual effect, you can add food dye into water, then the frozen gel mass will have a certain color.
In the container with heated gelatin, enter the selected oil. 10-15 drops are enough. To make the composition not drying too fast, it is worth adding 1 teaspoon of glycerin.
Giving a little cool, the resulting mass is shifted into a transparent glass jar with a wide throat. For a better decorative effect, you can add beautiful pebbles, seashells, flower petals and other decorations.
Beautiful flavoring from natural components is ready.
Soda air freshener
It is very simple in the manufacture of flavoring based on simple food soda, which is found in the kitchen, perhaps every mistress. Powder must be poured into a small container. It may be a jar or plastic container, the main thing is that the upper part of the dishes is wide.
One or more essential oils is added to the soda. It can be slightly mixed with a whole mass of a wand so that the ethers are better distributed.
Then the container with soda should be closed with thick paper or foil, fixing them with a tight rubber band. In the "lid" it is necessary to make several holes with a toothpick, a seboard or a thick needle.
Such a composition not only for a long time distributes fragrance, but also is able to absorb unpleasant odors from the outside. Therefore, this version of the freshener is well suitable for use in the bathroom or in the kitchen.
Fragrance for the house based on water and alcohol
This recipe is a somewhat enhanced version of the fragrances on the water described slightly above the water. Alcohol contains many volatile particles that will help the ether better spreading indoors.
As in the previous case, you will need a small container and a spacing. In 1 cup of water you need to add 2 tbsp. Spoons of vodka or 1 tbsp. A spoonful of pure 90% alcohol. There should also be pouring 10-15 drops of essential oil. After shaking, a pleasant smell can be sprayed around the room.
Fragrant sticks
A very long playing freshener, for the manufacture of which will need wooden spanks or other thin sticks.
Also, a small bottle will be required, necessarily with a narrow throat. There you need to pour about 100 g of the so-called base oil, that is, having a smell. In everyday life, which comes to mind from the most affordable is sunflower refined.
In the container with oil is also added 2 tbsp. Spoons of vodka and 5-10 drops of selected aromatic ether. Close the neck and shake the bottle several times so that the components are mixed.
The flavor is ready. Put it in the room and place several wooden sticks in a bottle. They must rise over the neck. After 3 hours, the wands need to be turned over, and they will begin to make a pleasant smell. After the fragrance begins to weaken, turn them back again. The intensity of the smell depends on the number of chopsticks: what they are more, the stronger and brighter the fragrance.
On the basis of wax
A good option for the bathroom or bedroom. It will take 100-120 grams of purified natural wax, 1 h. Spoon base oil without odor, 5 drops of essential oil with a selected aroma, a piece of thick woolen thread.
The wax must be put in a small enameled container and melt on a weak heat, and better in the water bath. When it becomes rather liquid, it is necessary to pour the base oil and, constantly stirring, add ethereal.
Turn off heating. Carefully break the wax into a small container and immerse in the center of the string of the thread. It is best to tie a small weight for her end to the thread evenly sank to the bottom. As you guessed, it will be a wick for the resulting homemade aromatic candle.
A very simple way to manufacture air freshener from essential oil is described in the video below.