CHEMICAL FREE - NEED THE HOUSE TO SMELL CLEAN???

Oh my goodness!!! It's Thanksgiving!!! People are coming over soon and house hasn't been cleaned! Plus, one of the side dishes exploded a bit in the stove and the spilled food residue burnt and now the kitchen and house smells awful! AHHH!!! What to do???

Don't worry! Essential Oils to the rescue! Here is a super quick way to whip up an air freshener that will help rid the unwanted odors from your home and no one will ever know!

A nice, cleansing, autumn scent is a combination of Thieves Essential Oil and Lemon Essential Oil. Thieves EO is a registered trademark blend of Young Living. It is made up of five different essential oils which were allegedly used together to help prevent the spread of disease in Europe during the Plagues which ravaged the continent on and off for about 600 years! The oils in the Thieves blend (Clove, Lemon, Cinnamon, Eucalyptus and Rosemary) are all quite powerful alone and especially so when mixed together! The oils support wellness and a healthy immune system. (Read last week's Chemical Free post about cleaning with Thieves EO) Lemon EO is a super concentrated oil derived from the peels of lemons. Of interest, it takes about 75 lemons to make one 15 ml bottle of Lemon EO! Lemon EO has a very clean and fresh scent. Many typical household cleaners are lemon scented. Young Living even made a graphic discussing how to use both Thieves EO and Lemon EO to help clean your home! Click HERE to check it out!

Using Witch Hazel astringent as a base, the air freshener will not leave water residue when sprayed. Witch Hazel has a natural alcohol content that dries up the wetness quickly. What is super cool to me, is that Witch Hazel comes from the bark of Hamamelis virginia, which is a shrub that is native to the Eastern half of the United States! I am a sucker for native plants!

Thanksgiving Cleansing Air Freshener

For a 4 oz glass bottle with fine mist sprayer, the recipe that I use is as follows:

- 2 oz water (tap is fine or if you have filtered that is good too)

- 2 oz Witch Hazel

- 10 drops of Essential Oils (for the Thieves & Lemon blend, I use 7 drops of Thieves and 3 drops of Lemon)

After the air freshener is made, run around and spritz it in all the rooms! All the rooms will smell great and your guests will never know about the chaos before they arrived! Then leave it in the bathroom and encourage your guests to use it. No one has to be self-conscious about leaving a not so pleasant scent in the bathroom - if you know what I mean... It will be like nothing ever happened!

What is so great about making your own natural air fresheners and cleaners, the essential oil mixtures can be tweaked and adjusted to your preference! If you are after fragrance alone, chose your favorite smelling essential oil to add. If you want it for cleaning the air and surfaces, use the Thanksgiving Cleansing Air Freshener blend. I use this air freshener in my children's bathroom multiple times throughout the day, spritzing it in the toilet, training toilet, counters, sink, on the tile around the base of the toilets, etc. Let's just say that even though the toilet has not been physically scrubbed in a while, even though it has had numerous #2's (daily), it still looks clean and the bathroom doesn't smell! Another oil that makes a great purifying air freshener is Purification Essential Oil. 

12/17/15 I'm making Holiday Cheer Air Fresheners for my kids' teachers and bus drivers.  Here's a video showing just how easy it is to make these all natural and chemical free air fresheners!

What is your favorite air freshener???

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