Any housewife dreams of creating such an atmosphere in the house that it would be comfortable for anyone who lives in it or comes to visit. Beautiful furniture, curtains, paintings, flowers, pillows - all these elements contribute to the creation of comfort and warmth.
But an unpleasant smell in the house can ruin all these efforts. To prevent this, the most common natural remedies are sufficient. Using a few simple methods, you can fill your home with fragrance, giving it an unusual and individual touch.
Ready-made natural fragrances
The easiest way to fill your home with pleasant smells is to go to the store and buy ready-made scented products. Many manufacturers offer various devices using natural essential oils.
The most common include:
- Aroma lamps are a device consisting of 2 parts: water mixed with essential oil is poured into the upper part, and a candle is located in the lower part. The lamp emits a pleasant aroma and destroys airborne bacteria. In addition, it fits perfectly into the interior.
- Wax candles. For their production, beeswax, soybean, vegetable coconut, and apricot wax are used. They have a rich scent that lasts for a long time after using the candles.
- A sachet is a bag of flavorings, which can be herbs, spices, and seeds. Used in closets with clothes and linen. Being on a hot radiator, it envelops the room with a wonderful aroma.
- Incense sticks are produced with or without a stem. To make both types, an aromatic substance is used, but in sticks with a rod it is applied to a bamboo handle. Sticks without a rod have a less intense and less suffocating aroma than those with a rod.
- Diffusers are a bottle filled with an aromatic composition. The intensity of the aroma is regulated by special sticks inserted into the bottle.
Using these devices, you can select essential oils to suit your taste. Natural products not only fill the room with pleasant odors, but also have a beneficial effect on the nervous system and normalize sleep.
Homemade aromatic compositions
Each person has individual taste. This also applies to aromas: some people like sweet smells, some enjoy floral incense, some prefer herbal scents. Following your preferences, you can prepare some natural aromatic compositions yourself.
The main ingredients for their manufacture are:
- citrus fruits – suitable for those who prefer strong and fresh aromas; the most persistent odors are those of oranges, lemons and limes;
- herbs - the most intense aromas are rosemary, lavender, thyme;
- extracts – widely used from vanilla, almond, mint;
- spices - allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves are suitable to create a fragrant atmosphere;
- conifers – the longest and most persistent aroma of pine and cedar. It is also recommended to use spruce and fir branches.
Preparing the aromatic composition is quite simple.The selected ingredients are placed in an enamel or steel pan, filled with water and heated over low heat, without allowing the mixture to boil. Then the heated mixture is poured into a liter jar, and a lit candle is placed in it.
With a jar in your hands you can walk through all the rooms. When the room is sufficiently saturated with the resulting aroma, you can extinguish the candle, close the jar with a lid and put it in the refrigerator until next time. The prepared mixture is used several times, warming up before each use.
Little secrets for creating a pleasant atmosphere
Before filling your home with a pleasant fragrance, you need to ventilate the room to remove heavy odors.
Several simple ways will help you create a cozy and unique aura in your home:
- To give your kitchen the aroma of a cozy coffee shop, simply add a few drops of citrus oil to the ground coffee. You can also mix any essential oils with water and dampen kitchen towels with the mixture.
- Spraying 10 drops of essential oil mixed with a glass of water from a spray bottle in the bedroom onto pillows and bed linen not only fills the room with a pleasant smell, but also relieves insomnia.
- The scent of any citrus oil will help charm any guest. Just drop a few drops on the rug in the hallway.
- Ordinary fir cones will help give your living room an amazing aroma and decorate the interior. Add 10 drops of cinnamon and clove oils to a cup of water, pour the mixture into a spray bottle and spray it onto the cones in a sealed bag. After the cones have absorbed the smell (1-2 weeks), put them on a dish and place them on a coffee table or nightstand.
- You can make a bathroom scent using regular baking soda.To do this, you need to fill 1/4 of a small container with soda, add a few drops of essential oil and cover with a lid with holes made in it.
- For those who love spicy aromas, a device made from grapefruit halves filled with sea salt with the addition of a couple of drops of oil of the same fruit, decorated with basil leaves on top, is suitable.
- The usual flowers in a vase can be replaced with dried eucalyptus leaves.
- A lavender garland will be an unusual decoration for your home. To make it you will need balls of cotton wool rolled up and placed on a toothpick. The balls need to be dipped in glue and rolled in dried lavender. They can then be strung on a thread and hung on the wall.
- The aroma of citrus fruits (orange, lemon, lime), cut into mugs and dried in the oven, will spread throughout the apartment, filling the air with freshness. They can be placed in drawers with clothes, after placing them in bags along with anise.
- There is another way you can use a regular orange or grapefruit. Punctures are made in the peel of the fruit, then it is rubbed with any spices, and cloves are stuck into the holes. After the prepared fragrance has been stored for 2-3 weeks in a dark place, you can put it on a shelf in any room and enjoy the aroma.
- Lemon is used to create fragrant jars. To do this, cut the lemon into slices, put it in a jar, add rosemary and 2 drops of any essential oil. Fill the contents of the jar with water and place in a warm place. In winter, you can use a battery for this.
- A bouquet of roses can be useful even after the flowers have withered. To do this, you need to cut the buds and lay them out on paper for 2-3 days.After they dry, put them in a jar, spraying essential oils on its walls in advance. Close the jar with a lid, shake to mix the contents and leave to infuse. After 2-3 days, the flowers can be transferred to any decorative plate or bowl. Dry buds soaked in the aroma of essential oils will refresh the room.
- An unusual air freshener can be made from lemon or any other citrus. Cut the lemon in half, remove the pulp. Pour sea salt into the resulting glass, adding mint leaves and dried cloves to it.
There are many more ways to fill your home with incense. By experimenting and mixing different scents, you can choose your own individual scent, creating a unique aura at home.
