How to Make Natural Air Fresheners and Deodorizers

You can make your own air fresheners and home deodorizers using common household products. These natural alternatives are safe for your families (reducing the chemicals in our homes) and also help our environment. You can make a variety of natual air fresheners and deodorizers to use in your home with common ingredients you may already have in your home.

INGREDIENTS:

Baking Soda
Distilled White Vinegar
Unscented Kitty Litter
Essential Oils (of your choice)

RECIPE 1:

Baking soda can be used here, there, and everywhere -- use it down the drain, on baby spit-up, in diaper pails, sprinkle on carpet (then vaccuum up), in trash cans, in refrigerators, the cat's litter box, and the kitchen sponge. It's easy and simple.

RECIPE 2:

Fill a spray bottle with white vinegar. Spray around the house as needed, on carpets, shoes, trash cans, diaper pails, and other sprayable surfaces. For wipeable surfaces, soak sponge or rag in vinegar and wipe down surfaces, like refrigerators and lunch boxes. You can create a mixture of half white vinegar and half water, for milder uses.

RECIPE 3:

Unscented kitty litter placed in bowls will absorb room odors.

RECIPE 4:

To freshen bathrooms add a couple of drops of your favorite essential oil to the inside of the cardboard toilet paper roll. The fragrance is released in the room when the turn of the roll.

RECIPE 5:

Combine a pint of water and 4 drops of essential oil of choice. Pour into a spray bottle and use as a finishing rinse on surfaces after cleaning.

Suggested essential oils to use: Eucalyptus, Pine, Lavender, Cypress, Lemon, Lemongrass, Lime, Thyme, Grapefruit, Orange, Wintergreen, Rosemary, and Sage.