The Fragrant Home and Life!
The first thing to greet your guests as they walk through your front door is your home's signature fragrance.
The fragrance of our home is unique. It's a fingerprint of all who live there, that speaks volumes about it's inhabitants! I bet it's safe to say that most of us love to walk into a home that smells of fresh laundry or baked bread, hot chocolate chip cookies or coffee brewing. These aromas are relax and comfort us, they induce a physical reaction and create memories that stay with us for a lifetime. Fragrance is no small matter!
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Did you know fragrance can send money flying out of our wallets? Take Williams Sonoma for example, their signature fragrance of Rosemary, Lemon and Vanilla is thoughtfully designed to draw us in. Draw me in it does! Here's my faux WS recipe using essential oils...just in case you need it...it's yummy!
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Recreate the Williams-Sonoma store scent with Spark Naturals essential oils.
1 1/2 Cup water
6 drops Lemon EO
3 drops Rosemary EO
4 drops Clove EO
2 teaspoons Vanilla
You can substitute fresh ingredients of course!
Let simmer on stove, or in a mini crockpot.
You can substitute fresh ingredients of course!
Let simmer on stove, or in a mini crockpot.
The science of fragrance is real. When we understand that synthetic scents fill our homes and our bodies with chlorofluorocarbons and other chemicals we can truly see the value of essential oils even more clearly. A home's signature scent should never be the cause of migraines, allergies and ozone depletion.
Now that the stage has been set for "change", I want to share a simple method for altering your homes fragrance signature for the better. You certainly didn't think I'd send you away empty handed did you?
You'll need something similar to this, a 1 qt glass spray bottle...an essential oil user's BFF. You can find them {HERE}. Why glass (or stainless steel)? Essential oils and plastic don't mix because PURE essential oils will leach petro chemicals from plastic.
Mother Nature takes issue with chemicals and so should we!
Spritzing a fine mist of essential oils and water OFTEN into the air will give the oils a chance to change the aroma molecules in every room. Gravity will pull the oils down into the carpets and rugs...where disagreeable odors and bacteria hide out.
Basic Essential Oil Home Spray Recipes
20 drops per 2 cups of water
Kitchen Spray Choices:
Rosemary
Lemon
Bergamot
Lime
Wild Orange
Dishwasher & Dish Soap:
Add 2 drops Lemon to dishwashing powder.
Add 10 drops of Lemon, Lavender or Bergamot to a bottle of dishwashing liquid, shake gently.
Living Room Spray:
8 drops Geranium
3 drops Clary Sage
5 drops Lemon 3 drops Bergamot
Bath Spray:
10 drops Lemon
10 drops Lavender
5 drops Bergamot
5 drops Cinnamon
Take inventory of your home's fragrance signature. Replace synthetic scents with healthy Home Sprays made with pure essential oils. Use them often, let the pure plant essence permeate your carpets, draperies and furniture. Your home's fragrance footprint will be refreshed and renewed with essential oils, all who pass through your front door will feel and SMELL the difference!
Refresh & Renew!
Rebecca
posted by Rebecca @ 6:28 AM
36 Comments
36 Comments:
Does the essential oils help with pet odor as well?
Yes, Yes and YES! As mentioned, essential oils change the molecule structure of unpleasant odors...so use your EO sprays often to permeate your carpets, drapes and furniture. FYI ~ doTERRA essential oils are PURE plant essence, they're NOT oily despite their name. There won't be any chance of oil stains only a possibility of water stains if you have velvet or silk drapery.
this may be a crazy question, but on the lists above for each room- do we choose one of the essential oils or mix the listed items for each room together? For example: the bath spray is listed with 4 ingredients- do we use all 4 EO's for the one bottle of mixture or do we just choose one EO? Thanks!!
Not a crazy question...
Only the Kitchen Spray has choices....the others are a combination of oils. However, you can mix and match oils as you like! The goal is to use essential oil sprays often so they can permeate the fibers in your home.
Please beware if you have a cat. Using EOs in the environment of a cat can prove deadly. They do not possess an essential liver detox enzyme to process EOs. Toxic levels can build and prove fatal.
Point taken. Cats do not tolerate citrus or melaleuca essential oils in full strength doses. However, I know many people that diffuse or spray into the air, small amounts of essential oils mixed with water...their feline friends do just fine.
Can I just make up the William Sonoma fragrance recipe in a spray bottle and use that?!
You certainly could...just add 2 cups water, that should work.
Will the oil in the mist cause stains on my upholstery? I don't have anything delicate, but I would still rather not have oil dots splotched on my couches even if they now smell better :P
Thanks! I just mixed some up (minus the cloves) - smells amazing!!
No need to fret, because even though the word oil is used...pure essential oils like doTERRA's are pure plant essence, not oily in the least! The only thing you would need to be careful about would be water leaving marks on velvet or satin/silks fabrics.
I'm excited about this post! Thank you!
The glass bottles you have linked to do not seem to come with a trigger spray top. And the website doesn't have one that works for more than an 8oz bottle. From where did you get your spray top for your 1 qt glass bottle?
I bought my spray top from the same source as the quart bottle...
www.aromatools.com
You can also get stainless steel bottles at the container store. they have 10, 4 and 2 oz ones. all come with the spray top.
Where can I buy essential oils locally? I saw your link to doTerra but I would like to smell before I buy, especially at $30 and $40 a bottle. Which one do you recommend starting with? I would love to buy them all at one time but the cost factor will not allow. Thank you JC
Jennifer, I understand your hesitancy having not actually held a bottle of doTERRA essential oils. If you don't have access to these EOs locally, I suggest purchasing the Introductory Kit of Lemon, Lavender and Peppermint. 3 - 5ml bottles of some the more popular EOs to try...very affordable too!
http://www.mydoterra.com/rebeccaschiffhauer/
Do you find the spray gets clogged - how do you keep that from happening?
No, it's never happened in all the sprays I've created! These oils are actually an essence, not oily or gummy at all except for perhaps Frankincense which is derived from a resin. Vetiver and Patchouli are thick as well but I generally don't use them for room sprays, I diffuse those :))
Thanks, Rebecca - what size sprays do you tend to make?. Your site named above had a blurb about the sprays sometimes get clogged if you use essential oils -
I was looking to replicate the Lysol multi purpose cleaner ,lemon breeze but I can't seem to find a recipe that comes close. I love the lemon smel makes the whole house just feel fresh. can you help me possibly get the same fragrance?
along this same line could you use this formula and refill the airwick heated containers that plug in?
You need to add a dispersant to the mix as well. When essential oils are added into a water, the tiny droplets of essential oil stay separate from the water. A little salt or vodka (any grain alcohol) work great! Love this blog BTW!
True! I love using vodka, it sweetens as well as emulsifies. You can always give the bottle a good shake before spraying as well :)
Thanks for this post Rebecca. Please don't think me an antagonist, but it seems like we would cancel out the anti-chemical benefits of not using a plastic bottle, if the plastic tube were left in it all the time. What's your opinion on that?
That can be a concern for some. Leaving the spray top off except for time of use is an option!
I run an inhome daycare. Can these sprays take the place of lysol to clean the air and surfaces at once?
Absolutely yes Kim. Pure essential oils like Spark's purify the air, with their antiseptic, antiviral and antifungal properties. Making your own spray with EOs is a great choice!
About how much vodka would you use?
Hello! Love this post. A few questions! I have a wallflower from bath and body works. I have been saving the bulbs to refill with EO and water. Would I need to add vodka? Also, we have a cat. Would it be safe to use lemon or lime in a combo with other fragrances through the wallflower as it is being diluted with water an possibly vodka? Thank you so much!
Oops! Also wanting to make one smell like baking. Was thinking of cinnamon and vanilla but want to add another scent with these two. Any suggestions?
I would change out the water for a carrier oil such as fractionated coconut oil, I'm not comfortable with water near an electrical outlet.
If you have a cat, it's best to use something other than citrus even as a scent in my opinion, cats can't tolerate citrus.
I've heard that adding Ginger and cinnamon makes a nice homey baking fragrance.
Rebbeca, how would you do the Williams- Sonoma scent with fresh ingredients?
I found a site that suggested using EO in plug ins, but said to fill with half water half EO, is the EO too concentrate for that much? It's DoTerra oil.
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I always wanted to recreate the scent that fills the entire Mall from the Hollister store inside and out would anybody know how to replicate that beautiful scent?
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