Home Made Cleaner: How to make your own Aromatherapy Spray to clean, disinfect and freshen your home ... Naturally! Home Made Cleaning:, easy, cheap Earth Friendly ... and aromatic!
Cleaning your home with products that do not poison you or bring on an attack of allergy is easier than you think. It is also much cheaper than buying a store, cleaning products. And in the best interest to make your own aromatherapy spray - it smells fabulous!
Green is the last great movement of energy, cars and cleaners. But consider the amount of energy that goes into making those bottles of spray and brush pots. Consider transportation costs to get them to your grocery store shelves. Not to mention the toxic ingredients that often go into the decisions.
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Manufacture of cleaning products you can reduce the amount of product you buy. Also, if you put in your sprayer aromatherapy old bottles clean, you're reusing. Of course, plastics are in the recycling bins, not garbage.
Make your own homemade cleaning solution ... with just a few key ingredients
You only need three or four key ingredients to get great results cleaning in almost every area of your home, and you can buy most of them from your local supermarket. Need:
- A big pot of white vinegar.
- A box of Borax (usually in the laundry detergent section.)
- Baking soda. (Buy store in your local bulk food and reduce your packaging still further.)
- Some of your favorite essential oils.
Home Made Aromatherapy Spray Recipe
This is one of the fastest, easiest home cleaning recipes you can make. You can use it anywhere: Spray on sinks, toilets and countertops to disinfection. Spray it on a damp cloth and wipe the dust from your furniture. Use it to clean your car, your desk, your patio furniture ...
Ingredients
- 1 tsp tsp borax
- 1 / 4 cup vinegar
- 2 cups water
- 30 drops of essential oil
Instructions
Boil water. Pour into a large glass measuring cup or pitcher with a spout. Add the borax and stir until dissolved. Add vinegar. Cool and pour the mixture into a spray bottle. Drop in the essential oils.
Note: Add the essential oils AFTER you pay the cleaner in the bottle because the scent of essential oil can "stick" to the measuring cup or your launcher.
Caution: Do not use this recipe for cleaning windows, mirrors or glass, it will veins. The secret of the house to spray the glass is just to use essential oils and vinegar. Fill a spray of white vinegar, drop some essential oils and voila! a grease cutter, no streaks, glass cleaner aroma!
Essential oils for household cleaning solutions
Try some of these essential oil blends terrible recipes in your house cleaning - not only do they smell fabulous, but they increase your cleaning power by killing bacteria and viruses.
Soothing Lavender
- 20 drops of lavender
- 10 drops lemon
Minty Fresh
- 20 drops peppermint
- 10 drops of tea tree
Clean pine scent
- 10 drops of pine
- 10 drops lemon
- Grapefruit 10 drops (or just use 20 drops of lemon)
Why use an aromatherapy spray (not just a simple One)
The essential oils disinfect surfaces by killing all the viruses, bacteria and fungi that live on them. The.
Posted on April 21, 2010.