To make your own home fragrance, you don’t have to be an apothecary or a chemist. You just have to find the right products and choose the scent you prefer. Here are five recipes that are 100% natural and safe for your health.

1. With essential oils of ylang-ylang

To design this interior fragrance, which can also be used to sanitize the air in a room or perfume your pillow, just get a 30 ml spray bottle that you have cleaned, disinfected and dried beforehand. In this bottle, pour five drops ofYlang-ylang essential oil then ten drops ofPetitgrain bigarade essential oil and finally twenty drops oflemon essential oil. Mix well before adding 90 ° alcohol to the top of the bottle.

2. An essential oil diffuser rather than an aerosol

It is not recommended to buy aerosol cans. Their contents are dangerous for health, and for the ozone layer. These are flammable products which also produce non-recyclable waste. To replace them, consider buying an essential oil diffuser. And since it is not healthy to burn the oils and they lose their therapeutic virtues during combustion, it is better to diffuse them in the atmosphere. Be careful, however, some clean the air and the respiratory tract but others can be irritating to the mucous membranes. Find out before you take the plunge!

3. Orange-based

Candles create a kind of magic in the room where they shine. It is possible to combine pleasure and nature with this recipe. Cut an orange in half, then dig to remove the flesh. Above all, be careful not to damage the white filament in the middle. Pour oil into the orange cups, then light the white stem. That’s it. What a sweet smell!

4. We try the scent sticks

Commercial scent sticks are often made with chemicals, synthetic fragrances, etc. So many products that you should no longer have at home! But you can use this principle by doing it yourself. Choose an essential oil of your choice (lemon, lemongrass, thyme, lavender, mint, cedar, jasmine, orange, eucalyptus). Pour 60 ml of vegetable oil (almond or safflower) then add 3 teaspoons of alcohol and a good glass of essential oil. Respect the proportion 70% vegetable oil for 30% essential oil. Soak reed diffusers (or skewers though, they are less effective) for two or three hours then turn over. As the days go by, add a little essential oil to compensate for the evaporation.

5. With baking soda

Baking soda is used for almost everything! It is an essential ally in natural home hygiene. It is therefore also welcome in DIY (do it yourself) perfumes. Take a jar (or a jar of jam) that closes. In the lid make a few holes using a nail and a hammer. Fill the jar with a quarter of baking soda on which you pour a few drops of essential oil of your choice. Close the lid, shake a bit, it’s ready!

Maylis Choné

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