A pleasant-smelling home can significantly transform our domestic experience, making us feel comfortable and turning our house into a peaceful and relaxing haven where we want to stay.
However, as a responsible consumer, you're always looking for new ways to reduce the amount of waste you generate every day.
But did you know there are ways to create inexpensive, personalized, and eco-friendly homemade air fresheners? As you can imagine, in this article we bring you several suggestions for scenting your home for very little, and while you're at it, you can repurpose your waste to create something useful.
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1. Homemade air freshener with fabric softener
Do you use fabric softener to wash your clothes? Well, then you already have the base ingredient for a super home air freshener that will fill your whole house with the scent of clean laundry. To do this, you'll need an empty spray bottle. Then fill it halfway with water and the other half with your favorite fabric softener. And that's it! You now have a super home air freshener in spray form to use on any surface in your home. You can use it on the sofa, cushions, in your closet, on top of towels, on your bed, and any textile surface in your house. The scent will permeate every room with an utterly irresistible clean laundry aroma.
2. Essential Oil Spray Air Freshener
If you want to avoid artificial chemicals, essential oils are an ideal alternative.essential oils.
They are usually sold in small bottles, so just a few drops dissolved in water can create a fairly strong scent. They come in all kinds imaginable, with a multitude of different aromas:rose, eucalyptus, patchouli, vanilla…
Simply fill a spray bottle with water and add a few drops of your favorite essential oil.essential oil
If you use a humidifier in your home, you can add a few drops of essential oil mixed with the water to evenly distribute the aroma throughout the room.
3. Scented Gelatin
Although nowadays you can find jars of scented gelatin in any supermarket, you should know that you can also create your own completely personalized air freshener, and more importantly, reuse containers that you would otherwise throw away. Furthermore, the result is usually quite aesthetically pleasing, making it an object with a dual purpose: decorating and adding a pleasant scent to our home.
To create your own aromatic jelly, you will need: a clean, empty glass jar, food coloring, unflavored gelatin, salt, and the essential oil of your choice.
First, boil the gelatin in hot water, following the package instructions. Then, add your essential oil (the more you add, the stronger the scent) along with the food coloring. We'll mix everything well, pour it into the jar, let it cool, and that's it—we'll have our scented gelatin!
4. Lavender sachets to scent closets and drawers
Do you have fabric scraps or old clothes and don't know what to do with them? Then you just need some aromatic plants like lavender or eucalyptus to create a simple and effective air freshener, ideal for closets, drawers, and enclosed spaces.
5. Homemade air freshener made with baking soda
To make this air freshener, you only need baking soda, an essential oil or fabric softener of your choice, and a spray bottle. The procedure is as follows:
- Heat the water until it boils (50 ml).
- Add the essential oil (a splash) or fabric softener (at least 50 ml).
- Add 15 g of baking soda.
Once everything is well mixed in the bottle, your homemade baking soda air freshener is ready to be sprayed.
6. Use leftover soap as an air freshener
You can also create fabulous scented sachets with leftover soap bars for very little money. The process for making them is quite simple: make small fabric sachets with leftover scraps of clothing and fill them with leftover soap from around the house.
As we mentioned with the sachets of aromatic plants, this type of air freshener is ideal for placing inside closets and drawers so that your clothes always retain a delightful fresh and clean scent.
7. Antibacterial Air Freshener for the Kitchen
How could we forget the kitchen? One of the rooms most exposed to strong odors, as it's common to cook with oils and strong aromas there.
Ideally, in this case, we should use natural products that pose no risk to our health. Luckily, many foods have antibacterial properties, in addition to eliminating odors and providing a fresh scent to the room.
To create our own antibacterial air freshener for the kitchen, we will need an orange or lemon, a cinnamon stick, water, sugar, and white vinegar.
The process is as follows: boil half a liter of water with cinnamon, add the orange or lemon peel and a few tablespoons of sugar. Then we'll mix it with the vinegar and let it cool, before storing it in our spray bottle.
8. Spices for Exotic Aromas in Your Home
If you want your home to transport you to some of the most exotic places in the world, there's nothing like creating your own air fresheners using aromatic spices like cloves, ginger, or allspice.
Simply infuse them in hot water and then pour the liquid into a spray bottle to spread it throughout your home.
9. Aromatic Plants for a Natural and Fresh Scent
You don't need to create a product to make your home smell clean and fresh. If you want a lasting aroma without constantly spraying surfaces, you can opt for aromatic plants. Some of our favorites for adding a natural scent to your home are basil, mint, rosemary, and thyme.
As we mentioned with the sachets of aromatic plants, this type of air freshener is ideal for placing inside closets and drawers so that your clothes always retain a delightful fresh and clean scent.
7. Antibacterial Air Freshener for the Kitchen
How could we forget the kitchen? One of the rooms most exposed to strong odors, as it's common to cook with oils and strong aromas there.
Ideally, in this case, we should use natural products that pose no risk to our health. Luckily, many foods have antibacterial properties, in addition to eliminating odors and providing a fresh scent to the room. To create our own antibacterial air freshener for the kitchen, we will need an orange or lemon, a cinnamon stick, water, sugar, and white vinegar. The process is as follows: boil half a liter of water with cinnamon, add the orange or lemon peel and a few tablespoons of sugar. Then we'll mix it with the vinegar and let it cool, before storing it in our spray bottle. If you want your home to transport you to some of the most exotic places in the world, there's nothing like creating your own air fresheners using aromatic spices like cloves, ginger, or allspice. Simply infuse them in hot water and then pour the liquid into a spray bottle to spread it throughout your home. You don't need to create a product to make your home smell clean and fresh. If you want a lasting aroma without constantly spraying surfaces, you can opt for aromatic plants. Some of our favorites for adding a natural scent to your home are basil, mint, rosemary, and thyme.8. Spices for Exotic Aromas in Your Home
9. Aromatic Plants for a Natural and Fresh Scent
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