How to make an air freshener from essential oils with your own hands?

In the overall homely atmosphere, fragrances play an important role. The apartment, filled with unobtrusive pleasant smells, becomes more comfortable. It is nice to return to it after a hard day, and on a day off you can completely relax and get therapeutic psychological relaxation. There are many flavoring agents on the market, but not all of them are completely harmless and perfect in their composition. The article will describe how to make an air freshener from essential oils with your own hands.

In addition, you can be the creator of your favorite fragrance, showing creativity and making it unique, homemade flavoring has other important benefits.

• Naturalness and harmlessness. You can choose the components yourself, taking into account the particular health of your family members. And, of course, you do not have to add synthetic substances and chemistry. And if some of your loved ones are allergic to certain natural essential substances, you simply will not add these components to your homemade flavoring.

• Many who are trying to make their own home appliances with their own hands, noticed that in the end this is a good way to save money, because manufacturers include their risks, transportation costs and so on in the price. And if you have mastered the algorithm for the manufacture of flavoring, you only need to purchase the necessary components. In this case, you do not overpay for packaging and a lot of unnecessary elements in the composition of aerosols and other artificial air fresheners.

• The flavoring made from high-quality natural essential oils will not produce an excessively strong smell. In-store aerosols are often added with substances artificially enhancing the activity of odorous particles. As a result, the smell becomes strong and unnatural. But the light pleasant fragrance of a home-made refreshing device will not be so annoying at all, but, on the contrary, will create a cozy atmosphere.

It has long been proven that various essential oils not only decorate the air with their fragrance - they also affect the psyche and the overall health of a person.

You can even pick up a whole healing “bouquet” of pleasant smelling sensations, that is, smells.

• Coniferous smells (fir, spruce) bring fresh notes of cool forest air. Aromatic coniferous oils can disinfect the air. They also have a pronounced anti-depressive effect, elevating mood. They are recommended to be inhaled by depressed people during a breakdown. They are also effective as a prophylactic against viral diseases.

• Citrus flavors (lemon, grapefruit, orange) also help fight depression and depression. Fill the air with sweetish fresh notes, thereby increasing vigor and lift the mood. It is very useful to use these aromas in your apartment in autumn and winter. Especially positively citrus smells perceive children. Moreover, like conifers, natural esters of this group also have a strong antibacterial effect. Some argue that citrus oils, especially lemon, scare away annoying insects: mosquitoes, midges, gadflies.

• Jasmine oil has a refined, delicate aroma. Helps focus and calm down. Creative people are especially sensitive to it and often prefer jasmine oil to other esters. In addition, jasmine improves sleep, drives away insomnia and anxiety, soothes during prolonged stress. In the house where this fragrance is present, relationships are established, and harmony prevails.

• Sage oil - A very powerful remedy with a spicy herbal smell. In addition to the fight against microbes that live in the air, the essential particles of sage are able to stimulate mental activity, improve memory, soothe. The aroma of sage is recommended to inhale with migraines, as it has a distracting and antispasmodic effect.

• Verbena It is considered the fragrance of successful, happy people who live in harmony with themselves and those around them. The ethers of this plant are charged with a positive, drive away bad thoughts and help in unlocking creative potentials. This smell is very useful for students and people of mental labor. Its regular inhalation stimulates brain cells, relieves fatigue, and improves sleep.

• Cinnamon oil has a sweetish pleasant aroma. First of all, the smell of cinnamon is associated with delicious baking. And it is not without reason that this seasoning is used for the preparation of many dishes: cinnamon has a positive effect on the emotional state, raises vitality. Cinnamon oil brings comfort to the overall atmosphere of the apartment. It creates a feeling of constant celebration and high spirits.

Having decided on the choice of flavor, you can start making home-made appliances for flavoring an apartment. However, you can use your flavoring, not only for indoor use. There are no obstacles to refreshing the air in the car or using it to give a pleasant fragrance to bed linen and other favorite things.

To make this simple, air-refreshing device, you need to prepare an atomizer and a small plastic bottle with a screw neck. It is even better if you manage to find glass bottles or bottles with a neck suitable for screwing the dispenser.

So, in the selected container you need to pour 150-200 ml of cooled boiled water. You can also use purified distilled. Then you also need to add about 10 drops of the selected essential oil. In the future, you can adjust the amount of essential components depending on personal feelings.

If you picked up the composition of the aromas, drip 2-3 drops of each oil. The main thing - do not overdo it!

To create and maintain a pleasant smell in the room, you can use a kind of "jelly", which will constantly emit fragrance for several days.

Gelatin need to take in the amount of 2 tbsp. spoon, pour it with a glass of warm water, stir and heat over low heat until completely dissolved. For a more beautiful visual effect, you can add food coloring to the water, then the frozen gel-like mass will have a certain color.

After allowing to cool slightly, transfer the resulting mass into a transparent glass jar with a wide neck. For a better decorative effect, you can add beautiful pebbles, shells, flower petals and other decorations there.

Beautiful flavor of natural ingredients ready.

Very simple in the manufacture of flavor based on simple baking soda, which is in the kitchen, perhaps, every hostess. Powder should be poured into a small container.This can be a jar or a plastic container, as long as the upper part of the dish is wide.

One or more essential oils are added to the soda. You can slightly mix the whole mass with a stick so that the ethers are better distributed.

Then you need to close the container with soda with thick paper or foil, securing them with a tight elastic band. In the "cover" you need to make a few holes with a toothpick, awl or a thick needle.

This recipe is a slightly enhanced version of the above described fragrance dispenser on water. Alcohol contains a lot of volatile particles that will help the ethers to spread better in the room.

As in the previous case, you need a small container and a spray. In 1 glass of water you need to add 2 tbsp. spoons of vodka or 1 tbsp. spoon of pure 90% alcohol. There also should pour 10-15 drops of essential oil. After shaking, a pleasant smell can be sprayed around the room.

Very long playing freshener, for the manufacture of which will need wooden skewers or other thin sticks.

You will also need a small bottle, always with a narrow neck. There you need to pour about 100 grams of so-called base oil, that is, no odor. In everyday life, the first thing that comes to mind of the most affordable is sunflower refined.

In the capacity of the oil is also added 2 tbsp. spoons of vodka and 5–10 drops of the selected aromatic ether. Close the neck and shake the bottle several times to mix the components.

Flavoring ready. Put it in the room and put a few wooden sticks in the bottle. They must rise above the neck. After 3 hours, the sticks need to be turned, and they will start to emit a pleasant smell. After the fragrance begins to fade, turn them over again. The intensity of the smell depends on the number of sticks: the more of them, the stronger and brighter the scent.

A good option for a bathroom or bedroom. It will take 100–120 grams of purified natural wax, 1 tsp. Of an odorless base oil, 5 drops of essential oil with a chosen aroma, a piece of thick wool thread.

The wax should be put in a small enameled container and melt on low heat, and preferably in a water bath. When it becomes quite liquid, it is necessary to pour base oil into it and, while constantly mixing, add essential oil.

Turn off the heater. Carefully pour the wax into a small container and immerse the thread in the center. It is best to tie a small weight on its end so that the thread evenly sinks to the very bottom. As you guessed, it will be a wick for the resulting homemade scented candles.

A very simple method of making an air freshener from an essential oil is described in the video below.