A Fun and Easy Way for Making your Own Air Fresheners
Making your own aromatherapy air freshener is very easy – all you need are the correct ingredients. However, pay particular attention to choosing the right oils as they will come into contact with other things in the house. Although aromatherapy has been around for centuries, the use of aromatherapy air fresheners is relatively new.
Take care to use only pure and natural essential oils and other ingredients. You should treat essential oils as carefully as any potentially harmful substance and keep it out of reach of children or pets.
While organic oils may perform better than non-organic oils, for true aromatherapy there is no need to use fragrance oils as well as synthetic compounds; one or the other could be used. Nevertheless, you should always exercise care in which ingredients are being used for making aromatherapy air fresheners.
What Do You Need?
Before getting into the ingredients of aromatherapy air fresheners, you should have ready a 4 ounce spray bottle with a fine mist setting in which you can store your air freshener. You should bear in mind that one should avoid bottles that may have contained cleaning products or hair products like hair sprays. Also make sure to clean the bottle thoroughly before using it as an air freshener.
Once you have the bottle to hold the air freshener, use thirty to forty drops of a favorite essential oil or essential oil blend and add one and a half ounce of distilled water along with one and a half ounce of odorless alcohol (such as vodka) or add another three ounces of distilled water.
If you use the alcohol mix it will bring out the scent of the oils more than just using water. It will function the same way as normal perfume. The alcohol causes rapid evaporation, which concentrates the scent of the oils used.
There are numerous essential oil blends available for use and which of these you use depends on individual tastes.
Shake the bottle before each usage and then leave the bottle for a day and decide on whether it has the right aroma or not.
Once the aromatherapy air freshener has had time to start evaporating, it will change its aroma. Be careful that the air freshener mist never falls on furniture or into open beverages, as this can be potentially harmful.
