Making your own spray with essential oils is a great alternative to spray fresheners, which put toxins in the air and aren’t good for you to breathe. Making your own essential oil spray will save money, help the environment, and be much better for the air quality of your home.
A spray made with essential oils will deodorize and disinfect the air, make it smell wonderful, and at the same time you benefit from the therapeutic properties of the essential oils as you breathe them. Essential oil sprays give a fresh smell and kill germs, viruses and bacteria.
Some ways you can use a spray made with essentials oils are:
-- freshen the air in any room
-- use on curtains and linens
-- spray some on your pillow to fall asleep faster
-- spray an energizing scent on your bathrobe
-- for a relaxing scent on beds, blankets, mattresses and pillows
-- spray dog beds and cat litter areas to control odors
-- use after cooking to cover odors
-- you can spray festive scents when entertaining
-- use scents to stay alert and focused
-- spray your favorites on clean laundry
-- great for closets, trunks, even boats
-- use in your home, office and car
-- use to polish furniture
-- spray to clean and disinfect bathrooms and kitchens
Just a spray or two will provide a wonderful scent and with real essential oils you get stronger, cleaner fragrances.
Since I started using sprays made with essential oils I have found that they greatly reduce mold growing in the shower and take away the musty smell in my closet. I’ve sprayed the oils on my house plants and it took away this white moldy plague that was on some of them. You can put 4-5 drops of peppermint oil in 4 ounces of water to get rid of aphids on plants. And, don’t forget the sleep recipe I shared in another post that you can spray on your pillow before bed to give you a deeper, peaceful sleep.
I have two different recipes I’ve been using for my spray bottles that I’m enjoying. I got a couple of light blue plastic spray bottles at Big Lots. It is better if the bottles are dark glass to protect the essential oils, but you can just keep lighter colored spray bottles away from any direct sunlight.
It’s best to get a fine mist sprayer--there’s the kind where you can set the spray to a finer mist. Make sure you do not use a bottle that previously contained cleaning products or hair products, such as hair spray, so there are no toxic residues and scents. Also, don’t fill the bottle too full, so there’s room to shake the water, as you should always shake the bottle before you spray.
You want to be sure and use pure, clean water -- not faucet water that can contain fluoride and other toxins.
I read that since vodka is distilled, adding it to the water will help the essential oils linger in the air longer.
I have one spray recipe that is good to take away odors, which I labeled “odors”, and another recipe (with a few of the oils of joy I mentioned in another post), which I labeled “uplifting”. Here are my two recipes:
Odors
16 oz pure water (or you can use up to 50% vodka)
10 to 20 lavender
10 to 20 tea tree
10 to 20 clove
(that’s drops of each essential oil)
Uplifting
16 oz pure water (a couple ounces of this can be vodka)
10 to 20 lavender
10 to 20 peppermint
10 to 20 grapefruit
(that’s drops of each essential oil)
Both of these smell so good! You can adjust the amount of essential oils you use to your liking. In different books and sites I have found different ratios of oils to water for a spray. One place suggests 4 drops per ounce…another says 1 to 2 drops per ounce, and another 10-12 drops per ounce.
You can make a spray with 2 drops each of clove, cinnamon, lemon, rosemary and eucalyptus for each ounce of water in a spray bottle. These are the same essential oils as in the “cold and flu” recipe I posted. This spray is excellent for disinfecting the air and protecting you from catching something from someone who is sick, or others from catching something from you. You can also spray this in your mouth or on your toothbrush and hair brush to kill germs and disinfect.