How to Keep Your Mattress and Bed Fresh and Inviting

There is nothing more inviting at the end of a long hard day of work and fun than your bed.The inviting coolness of fresh Egyptian Cotten sheets and perfectly plumped down pillows can welcome you and please you.

But is your bed truly inviting or is it a crumpled mess of tossed linens, and stale odors. There are several things that you can do easily to transform your messy bed into a wonderland bed where sweet dreams will prevail and you'll awake refreshed and ready for the next day's adventures.

The next time you change your sheets, take off the mattress pad too and sprinkle baking soda mixed with crushed lavender flowers directly on the mattress; let sit for a few hours, then vacuum away the mixture. The baking soda will absorb any stale odors on your mattress and the lavender scent will be left behind as a relaxing smell. Lavendar is known for it's relaxing qualities as an herb and plant.

Then wash your mattress pad and sheets and on the final rinse add your favorite essential oil smell. Lavendar is known to induce relaxation, but other good choices are sandal wood, yling ylang and Roman chamomile.

Next hang our sheets out to dry on the clothesline in the summer sun. If you don't have a clothesline, rig one somehow to allow your sheets to soak up the distinctly refreshing odor of summer air. You can toss them in the dryer when you bring them in from the line if you want a less wrinkled look or feel before you make up the bed.

Between washings, you can refresh your sheets by combining 20 drops of that relaxing favorite essential oil with about 2 T. of vodka in a spray bottle. Fill the rest of the way up with distilled water to mist your sheets as needed. You can do this just before sliding into that cozy bed. Turn the covers down, mist your sheets and pillow very lightly, get dressed for bed and drift off in a slumberland of dreaminess.

Instead of hopping right out of bed in the morning and making it up quickly, throw off the covers completely and let the bed air while you get dressed. Mist the bed t with your refreshing essential oil blend and let it sit. Then make up the bed and that night you'll have crisp fresh smelling sheets.

When laundering sheets and pillows, it is necessary to use hot water to kill any dust mites that get in linens easily. Often people use cold water washes, but for bed linens, hot water is one of the best disinfectants around.

Another mattress tip to consider, is to remember to flip your mattress on a regular basis, about once a month. And rotate it vertically as well as horizontally to keep impressions from forming in specific patterns. Regular vacuuming of your mattress is the best way to get rid of surface dust and mites that gather there and of course, removing stains as they occur if essential to preventing odor build up. The stain may be dry, but the odor will still linger. Most of us eat, drink and spend a lot of non sleeping time in our beds. Mattresses need to be cleaned like the rest of our house.

The best protector for your mattress is a good mattress protector that is waterproof and anti allergenic.Although the foam sleep relief mattress pads get rave reviews from many people.

If you take care of removing stains when they occur, use a good mattress protector, launder your sheets on a regular basis, and freshen regularly with fresh air and nice essential oil spritzes, you should be able to maintain a sweet smelling bed that will provide you with sweet dreams for many nights. Sweet dreams and don't let the bedbugs bite!

Resources

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