Natural Room Fragrance

When purchasing essential oils, it is very important to ensure that they are natural in order to benefit from the therapeutic benefits. Artificial oils smell good, but they have no therapeutic properties.

There are many different products on the market to change or “improve” the room scent in your household.

Some products are supposed to “clean the air of bad smells”, others “provide relaxation”, and still others provide “fresh air in the toilet”. Such products are not always uncritical for your health.

There are so many good alternatives from nature that work just as well as chemicals from the spray bottle – and do not harm your health! In this article we present various options for natural room fragrances .

Room fragrance from nature

Ventilation

It may sound mundane, but it’s still the best way to prevent bad smells from developing in your home: ventilate!

For example, if you do not have an extractor hood in the kitchen or only one that works on the principle of circulating air, opening the kitchen window while cooking is a great help to prevent grease and other food odors in the household.

Muff and stale air will disappear if you ventilate briefly and vigorously several times a day. Preferably with opposite doors or windows. During the heating season, however, you should never ventilate the room continuously with the window tilted.

This only results in unnecessarily high heating costs and does little to counteract excessive room humidity and bad smells!

vinegar

Vinegar works well against bad smells, especially on items in the kitchen. After the basic cleaning with soapy water, wiping the refrigerator with vinegar water at the end helps a lot to get rid of the refrigerator smell.

Vinegar also binds odors on textiles such as carpets. To do this, simply vacuum the carpet first, then brush it off with vinegar, let it dry well and then ventilate the room well. In this way, the stench from the carpet and the subsequent vinegar smell from the room disappear!

lavender

Lavender is ideal for scenting wardrobes. Clothes moths don’t like the smell of lavender at all and stay away from scented cupboards. Simply sew a small bag or pillow and fill it with dried lavender flowers.

Place the bags between your wool sweaters and also hang them on the clothes rail. Knead a little now and then so that fresh, essential oil can come out of the dried flowers again!

Lavender also creates a good fragrance in the bathroom. A bowl with lavender flowers or specially braided, air-permeable baskets release the fragrance of flowers into the room.

Roses

Dried rose petals not only look great – they smell like that too! But not every rose has an intense scent, which is why not all dried rose petals scent your home equally well.

If you have dried or bought such rose petals yourself, you can sparingly drizzle them with pure rose oil at any time to make them smell permanently.

Attention: Essential oils can attack surfaces (especially painted surfaces!). So only scent your rose petals in insensitive containers, e.g. a glass bowl!

Cinnamon as a room fragrance

Cinnamon smells pleasantly intense. Its scent is ideal for taking away the bad smell from shoes. To do this, put cinnamon powder in cloth bags, which you then put out in the shoe cupboard.

If you want, you can also keep cinnamon bags in your winter boots over the summer. So the boots don’t smell musty next winter, but rather Christmassy and fresh! Again, you should always squeeze the sachet a little to reactivate the scent.

Orange – carnation

Oranges, which are decorated with cloves for scenting, are a bit labor-intensive but then very pretty and Christmassy.

It is easier to use orange peel, which after you have eaten an orange, lay it out on the heater to dry. If you bend the bowl from time to time, the full fragrance unfolds

matches

The smoke of a burned matchstick cleans the air of unpleasant smells in small rooms. Ideal for use in the guest toilet!

Just put a pack of matches on a plate. Then burn a match after the “session” and notice how the smoke unfolds its cleansing effect in the small room …

Incense sticks

Many incense sticks contain substances that make the air in your home smell good, but at the same time pollute them.

Burning incense sticks pollutes the room air with fine dust many times that of what would be considered dense smog in road traffic! More pollutants were found in some incense sticks than in cigarette smoke!

In households where incense sticks are used regularly, cancer is up to 80% higher!

Scented candles

The chemical and “nature-identical” aromatic substances contained in scented candles can trigger allergies. Such candles are often made of paraffin, which releases other pollutants into the air when the candles burn down.

Asthmatics and allergy sufferers usually notice the negative effect of such candles very quickly when entering a room in which the room air is avoidably “improved” with scented candles. Caution: Natural fragrances from essential oils can also trigger allergic reactions.