For many of us, comfort in the house is not only a successful arrangement of furniture, wallpaper pasted over the walls and a beautiful chandelier on the ceiling. A comfortable atmosphere consists of many diverse, seemingly insignificant, details. Lovely trinkets, souvenirs brought from travel, and, of course, smells - these are the things that create an overall cozy atmosphere. Of course, someone may say: “It smells delicious to me without any artificial“ stinks ”there.” But it’s not at all necessary to douse the apartment with “spray smell”, where it’s much better to use natural home-made fragrances created by your own hands to create a pleasant atmosphere.
What can be used as a natural flavoring at home
In order for the pleasant fragrance in your apartment to become stable, you need to use fragrances with similar, suitable for each other, and better - the same - odors for all rooms. Fragrances for the house are not only well-known to all sachets with herbs and aroma lamps. They can be scented soap, and incense sticks, and candles, and aromatic stones, and of course plants, such as basil or lemon balm grown on a windowsill .
Making home-made fragrances with your own hands is not at all difficult. This will not require you any big efforts, as well as time-consuming. Quite the contrary, their production will give you complete pleasure, help you cheer up, fill the house with indescribable odors in its splendor. Fragrances for the home can be done with your child - after all, this is undoubtedly instructive, and most importantly - absolutely safe.
Aromatic Sachet
Sachet (from the French sachet, which means "small bag" or "bag"). These
small pillows filled with odorous dry herbs or saturated with the smells of essential oils have been used as fragrances for several centuries. You can sew sachets from any material, decorate with embroidery, lace or beads. If you attach a loop to it, you can hang it in a wardrobe so that the clothes are saturated with the pleasant smell of herbs or oils. A sachet laid under the pillow with the soothing smell of lavender or lemon balm will contribute to a good rest. A wonderful natural home air fragrance can be made by folding several such deliciously smelling bags into a small beautiful basket.
How to fill sachets is up to you. To make the aroma lasting, you can drop a few drops of the essential oil on the dry grass.
Making Aromatherapy
For the manufacture of aroma sachets, take any, preferably natural, material - this
it can be linen, burlap, cotton or bamboo fabrics, silk. The size of the pillow or bag should not exceed 12x13 cm. Usually, sachets are filled with well-dried, shredded plants. For this purpose, peppermint, lavender, geranium, wormwood, tarragon, cloves, jasmine, acacia flowers, roses and others with a strong aroma of grass are perfect. They can be complemented by various spices - vanilla, cinnamon, anise, sweet peas, dry zest of lemon, orange and others. It is worth noting that all these spices have an intense pungent smell, so you need to add them to the main mixture of herbs carefully, in a small amount.
You can use sachets as a flavor for no more than three to four months, after this period the smell, unfortunately, will evaporate. But as an interesting, do-it-yourself decoration of the interior of the house, it will serve you for more than one year.
Aroma stones
Fragrances for the home in the form of decorative stones are gaining more and more popularity due to the fact that in addition to the pleasantly smelling atmosphere, they are also wonderful, one might say, exclusive interior design items.
To make several small aromatic stones, you will need:
- any flour - 1.5 cups;
- salt - 2.5 tbsp. spoons;
- potato or corn starch - 2.5 tbsp. spoons;
- boiling water - a little more than half a glass;
- essential oils (optional);
- food or artificial colors;
- cookie cutters.
Flour, salt and starch should be mixed in a suitable bowl, add water with dye and knead. Roll out the dough into a thick cake. Using the molds, cut out the figures of stones, on each of which you can now apply a few drops of oil and leave to dry. If there are no molds, you can simply mold the dough in the form of small pebbles. After hardening, the stones can be laid out all over the house individually or decorated with wicker baskets, small plates. As the smell evaporates, you can drop a couple of drops of essential oil over and over the stones, which will allow you to keep the aroma for a long time.
Aroma sticks
Fragrances for the home, made with the use of sticks made of natural wood, will become a real decoration of any interior. In addition, they are pretty
durable due to the fact that the components of the composition are easily replaced.
In order to make a home fragrance with sticks, you will need:
- a glass vase or a bottle with a narrow neck;
- wooden sticks (skewers for kebabs);
- odorless vegetable or cosmetic oil;
- essential oil;
- vodka or alcohol (to speed up the flavoring process).
Fragrance for home with sticks to make it very easy, for this oil (odorless) must be poured into a suitable bottle, add 25-35 drops of essential oil and a couple of teaspoons of alcohol to it, shake the mixture. Now a few sticks are simply dipped in a mixture of oils - the flavor is ready. Do not forget to periodically turn the sticks - this helps to enhance the smell. What essential oil to include in the composition, everyone decides for himself. In case you do not understand aromatherapy, use a mixture of aromas of lavender and bergamot or eucalyptus, peppermint with sweet orange or patchouli and neroli. These win-win smells perfectly cheer up, contribute to creating a light aromatic atmosphere in the house.
Natural Spray
Such a fragrance spray is the best suited for those who are used to spray the smell around themselves from a spray can. How to make a home fragrance in the form of a spray? Easy, simple, and most importantly - quickly.
You will need:
- water;
- alcohol;
- spray bottle (preferably glass, but plastic is also suitable);
- essential oils.
All components must be mixed. Before each spraying, the bottle with the liquid must be shaken well so that the ingredients mix together. Such a flavoring, by the way, can sprinkle upholstered furniture, carpets and rugs.
Coffee flavoring
Perhaps the easiest way to fill the house with an indescribable natural aroma is to place cups filled with roasted coffee beans in all rooms.
You will undoubtedly take great pleasure in creating fragrances for your home with your own hands. In addition, natural, without impurities, odors can significantly improve your mood, create a pleasant cozy atmosphere in the house and not harm your health.
It remains only to wish your home warmth and comfort, surrounded by beautiful delicious aromas!