Fashion for fragrance pads came from France. Of course, many peoples of the world used dry herbs, seeds and flowers to flavor rooms, but it was the French who began to put them in beautiful bags or pillows, gave them a name and turned them into a fashionable element of the interior.
Today, making sachets with your own hands is also popular because everything natural, environmentally friendly has come into fashion. People are so divorced from nature that now they are trying by all possible means to somehow compensate for this. And, of course, it should be noted that plants have their own special energy, therefore, herbal sacs act as original charms and neutralizers of negative energy. Depending on your wishes and preferences, you can make a sachet with your own hands and fill it with herbs and flowers at your own discretion. Let's see how you can make an aromatic herbal pouch.
How to make a sachet?
To make a sachet, first of all you need flower petals, dried herbs, spices, spicy seeds, essential oils. All this is placed in a prepared bag. On top of the bag is tied with a ribbon. You can also make sachets in the form of candy, pads. It all depends on your imagination.
How to fill sachets?
First of all, you should decide on the purpose of making a sachet: you make it as a talisman or for aromatization of air. Before doing the sachets with their own hands, it is necessary to study the magical power of plants, which can be used to solve certain problems.
- To attract happiness and love, you need to make a love sachet. To do this, in equal proportions, mix the petals of cloves, roses, gypsophila and add the crushed orange peel. The bag for such an aromatic pillow is made of pink fabric.
- If you want to achieve prosperity in the house, you need to mix the dry leaves of rosemary and basil, one part of fern leaves and bay leaf and three parts of dill seed. A pinch of salt is added to the resulting mixture. All this is placed in a red bag and is located in the highest place in the apartment.
- To make sachets with your own hands to attract wealth and money, you need to prepare a green bag and fill it with a mixture of 3 parts patchouli, 2 parts clove seed and 1 part cinnamon.
- To protect yourself from negative energy and the evil eye, pour the seeds of flax, dill and caraway seeds mixed with salt into a white or red bag.
- If you suffer from insomnia and dream of a good night's sleep, you need to prepare a mixture of hop cones and lavender flowers and place it in a bag of calm color. This aromatic sachet is placed under the pillow.
If you want to flavor clothes or air, then, in addition to a mixture of dry plants, you must use essential oils and special powders that have a more pronounced smell. Below are the most common components for a simple aromatic sachet:
- ylang-ylang, lavender, rose;
- lemon, cloves, rosemary;
- rose, lemon, lavender;
- lemon, mint, cloves, rosemary.
Now you know how to make sachets with your own hands. This is not difficult at all, and a beautiful pillow will become a source of freshness, a pleasant aroma and will help to solve many problems.