Many of the top wax air fresheners and oil scented air fresheners can be quite expensive to purchase for many homeowners. If you want your home to smell great you might be interested to know that many of the top household odors can actually fade away with the help of a natural DIY solution. Here are some of the best recipes that you can use to create your own DIY home air fresheners that work better than most oil or chemical air fresheners produced by Glade, bath and body work and more:
1- Mason Jar Lemon:
Mix together vanilla extract, water, lemon, and fresh lemon. Use a Mason jar that is closed just enough to let air out of the top of the jar. You could also consider punching a few holes in the top of the jar as well. The lemon will continue to release a scent in almost any room and this combination of scents put together in a small Mason jar can actually work very effectively as an in room air freshener.
2- Lavender Rosemary carpet powder:
Carpet deodorizer is usually just baking soda and a scented chemical anyway. You can make your own carpet deodorizer at home with the help of your own fresh baking soda, some dried rosemary sprigs and essential oil made from Lavender. Just mix together the Rosemary, Lavender oil and baking soda in a small tub and make sure that it sits for around 15 to 20 min... After the baking soda dries out it can easily be sprinkled across any rug within your home and then vacuumed up to create a very pleasing scent that eliminates many household odors especially from rugs.
3- Lilac mist:
If you can get your hands on some Lilac leaves it's very easy to create a room spray which is as powerful as any other aerosol air freshener on the market. With the help of Lilac oil or Lilac leaves, you can mix together water, a light amount of vodka as well as the oil or leaves in a spray canister to create a powerful mist air freshener that you can use to freshen fabrics as well as any room. The oil is often the preferred choice because it can produce a stronger scent as well as less risk for potential stains within your home when you use this mist on fabrics.
4- A simmer pot:
For freshening up smells after cooking you could consider putting in a pot to simmer in your kitchen. Making up a few different sense with fresh grapefruit, lemon, ginger, lime and more can give you an easy solution for freshening your entire home. Just pull one of these jars out of the fridge, place it in a pot on low to simmer and it can work just as well as any other oil warmer or diffuser. To make one of these simmering pots just mix together mint leaves and citrus, ginger and more with water and let it soak overnight. Place the whole mixture in a pot and place the oven on simmer mode to let the smell wash across your kitchen and your home.
5- Refill plug-in air fresheners:
Many of the top plug-in air fresheners can actually be refilled with the help of water and essential oil. If you have an oil air freshener that plugs in try to remove the top of the air freshener where the wick is and refill it with a mixture that is one-quarter essential oil and the rest water. You may be amazed to find that you can often get 3 to 4 refills out of the same glass container and wick before they cannot be used again.
Keep some of these top DIY air fresheners in mind for keeping your home smelling great!