Natural Ways To Make Your House Smell Great

Natural Ways To Make Your House Smell Great

Some ways that we use to make our homes smell nice are not healthy for us. These include air fresheners and plugins, they have some chemicals that can be dangerous to us. Now with that out of the way what can you do for your house to smell good? You can open windows because fresh air is the way to go when you need to get rid of some smells and stale air. But that too can fail to work when the temperatures are not in your favor like when its freezing cold or raining. Now that you have run out of option what can you do to make your home smell nice without all the mentioned factors? There are many natural ways which can make your home smell great and they have no side effects too. Read on to find out more about them.

 

You Can Boil Cinnamon

Cinnamon can produce a great scent to your home. You don’t even need to do much to have your house smelling good. You simply need to boil cinnamon sticks or sprinkle the cinnamon powder into boiling water. Give it a few minutes to simmer as the scent disperses throughout your house.

Smudge Sticks

This is great to bring the outside freshness into your home. You just need to make use of dried herbs that are piled up into a bundle called a smudge stick. There are so many natural herbs with great scents that you can make use of to achieve this. These include mint, thyme and more.

Lemon And Orange Peel Candles

Another great way to make your home smell nice is by making use of orange or lemon peels. All you need is the peels and also oil. It could be vegetable or olive oil any of them can work really. You can the orange or just remove everything else excerpt the middle stem, you have to leave it standing. Fill it with the oil and light it up. It produces a nice smell that can make your home smell great. You can also make use of lavender lemon candles. You just need candle wax microwaved and mic it with lavender essential oil or dried lavender and put in a lemon peel. Add a candle wick in the center before pouring the melted wax.

Make Your Own Air Freshener

Instead of buying fresh air you can make your own in the comfort of your home. You just need water, vodka, or vanilla extract, some drops of orange essential oil as well as drops of peppermint essential oil. All you need it to mix these and put them in a spray bottle and you have your air freshener.

Jar rooms scents

Do you have some jars that are just lying in your house waiting to be disposed of well here is a good way to use them instead of disposing of. You can use them to make a natural room scent that can make your house smell good for weeks. You can make use of fruits, herbs or spices and mix with simmering waters. Sometimes you can mix the fruits with herbs like lemon, rosemary, and vanilla. You can put it in different rooms and it can last for weeks. You can preheat to rejuvenate the scent.

 

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Anita Keller