What’s On Store-Bought Air Fresheners?
DIY natural air fresheners, both sprays and other varieties, will keep your house smelling sweet and fresh without introducing and potentially dangerous chemicals into your home.
I used to love the smell of my home after squirting a bit (OK, sometimes a lot) of air freshener spray from an attractive store-bought bottle.
That is, until I took the time to learn more about what is actually in the colorful and enticing bottles I regularly grabbed from store shelves.
The short answer to that questions would be “fragrance.” Now, that may sound like merely a single innocuous ingredient, but it is far from such a reasonable assumption.
The term “fragrance,” when used in home and body sprays, can actually refer to a combination of more than 3,000 different chemical ingredients manufacturers can deem proprietary information – or trade secrets.
A report by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health revealed one third of artificial substances use by the fragrance industry can actually be harmful to human health and generally… toxic.
Styrene, an incredibly common chemical used in air fresheners has been deemed, “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen,” by the National Academy of Sciences’ Research Council.
Styrene has reportedly been known to trigger respiratory problems, allergies, hormone disruption, and dermatitis.
Because natural air fresheners do not rely on artificial ingredients to create or sustain a fragrance, the scent will evaporate quicker.
To extend the longevity of natural air fresheners where essential oils are the primary active ingredients, “base” items are used to sustain the scent in the room or on furniture.
I prefer to use glass spray bottles when creating homemade natural air fresheners – basically because I do not like the chemicals used to make plastic finding their way into my home any more than absolutely necessary.
But, you can pick up plastic spray bottles at your local Dollar Tree or similar store for a very low cost, and make batches of air fresheners at once.
This is not only one of the easiest air freshener to make at home, it’s also one of the most interesting looking.
Some oranges, cloves, cinnamon and some twine are all that you need to make it. Here are the full instructions.
Turn either the wildflowers growing on your homestead, decorative plants you are cultivating, berries, fruits, and herbs into beautifully scented and all-natural potpourri.
Recommended Potpourri Flowers:
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You can instantly bring a robust and pleasing scent to a room with a simmering potpourri.
During the winter I keep a cast iron kettle on our wood stove going all season long with frequently replenished natural ingredients brewing in the tea kettle.
You can also whip up a simmering potpourri on your stovetop and achieve the same successful results.
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Make little diffusers all around your home using little glass bottles or bud vases, and either tiny wood dowels or bamboo sticks infused with an essential oil-based mixture. The light and long-lasting scent will help keep the room smelling fresh for hours.
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if you don’t want to have to deal with paraffin wax (which is petroleum-based), you can try out our natural wax melts recipe. You will need:
Get the recipe here.
Have a favorite natural air freshener recipe? Share it with the New Life On A Homestead community in the comments section below – we always love hearing from you.
As always, don’t forget to pin this on your Pinterest boards, so you can come back to it when you’re ready to try some of these recipes!
Tara lives on a 56 acres farm in the Appalachian Mountains, where she faces homesteading and farming challenges every single day. her homesteading skills are unmatched, she raises chickens, goats, horses, a wide variety of vegetables, not to mention she’s an expert is all sorts of homesteading skills such as hide tanning, doll making, tree tapping and many, many more.
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