Aromatherapy Home Recipes

Use Aromatherapy home recipes to promote a lovely and healthy home. Safe and gentle cleaning products are better for people, animals, and the environment than harsh commercial ones. With these simple home-made aromatherapy formulas, you can get the result as good as using the chemical ones, without emit strong odors and fumes.

As we know household cleaners and products consisted of chemical ingredients. Products that contain bleach, ammonia, phosphate and sodium benzoate to name a few of the basics, are destroying your immune system and can cause allergic reaction to sensitive skin.

Formulating your very own household cleansers isn’t complicated at all. In fact, it can be an enjoyable undertaking and a money-saving one at that, especially if you mix your solutions in bulk. I guess, for the sake of your family health, you don't mind takes the little extra time to make your own cleaning products.

Here are the list of aromatherapy home recipes that I found in Mountain Rose Herb. Reprinted from The Herb Companion magazine. If you like the article you can subscribe to The Herb Companion magazine

Aromatherapy Home Recipes - Herb Soap Concentrate

The suggested recipe formula can make half a cup of the substance.

The base of this recipe is Murphy’s oil soap paste that maybe purchased in hardware stores. The herbal infusion is diluted in this substance and the outcome is a doubled-cleaning power of the soap solution. A variety of other oils may be used but the use of lemon and orange essential oils is advised due of its relative low cost.

1 tablespoon essential oil or combination of essential oils (about 1/2 ounce) and 1/2 cup or more concentrated oil soap paste

Wear gloves to protect your hands and use a stainless spoon that will serve as your stirrer. Mix the substances in a glass measuring cup after tilting it. If the oil separates from the mixture to the edges of your cup add more of the oil soap paste and stir again as required. If you want to make in larger volume of the mixture a mixer or blender maybe used.

The mixture may be stored using a wide-mouthed glass jar. Make sure that the jar is properly labeled so people do not confuse it for something else. This mixture can make up to thirty quarts of cleaning solution. To use the mixture dilute one to three teaspoons of the concentrate in four cups of water or other herbal infusion.

When using the concentrate make sure that the ventilation in the area where it is applied is adequate because as the term suggests it is concentrated. The suggested concentrate is good for cleaning wood materials like:

Wood furniture and other woodwork. If the wood material is finished with Shellac or Varnish you need to follow the diluted concentrate solution with the application of lemon essential oil using a lamb-wool duster.
Wood flooring. At least once in a year you may clean your wood flooring with a damp mop that is soaked in the solution with the concentrate. Subsequently lemon essential oil may be applied.

Aromatherapy Home Recipes - Citrus Scrubber

The combination of the suggested substances can make one cup.

You may infuse your essential oils with baking soda and borax in fair proportions, or with calcium carbonate cleansers for the stubborn dirt and stains in your kitchen, bathroom and sinks. The use of essential oils with antimicrobial property will help eliminate grease and bacterial growth. Also, the application leaves the treated area with a pleasant odor.

Materials are as follow:

1 cup powdered calcium carbonate cleanser, or 1/2 cup each baking soda and borax.
1-1/2 teaspoons each essential oils of lemon, orange, and grapefruit.

Pour the desired base in a bowl, preferably a glass bowl. And use a fork in eliminating lumps after mixing the essential oils or blend of oils to the base. It is best that this substance combination is stored in a metal or glass jar with a lid to avoid spillage. When using this potent combination make sure to protect your hands by wearing gloves.

Aromatherapy Home Recipes - Fragrant Wood Polish

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The following aromatherapy home recipe is intended for cleaning wood materials with a pleasant essential oil finish.

Taking care of fine furniture pieces is critical to preserve their beauty. An application of the mixture noted below will help you achieve this goal.

1/2 teaspoon essential oil of Peru balsam
8 ounces mineral oil
1 ounce beeswax
1/8 teaspoon each essential oils of rosemary, bergamot, and spruce
1/4 teaspoon each essential oils of lavender, tangerine, orange, and lemon

Use a double-boiler in melting the beeswax in mineral oil. Separate the upper pan and cool the mixture but make sure that the mixture does not skim over the surface. Then you may add the essential oil or blend of oils into the pre-heated mixture. After completely mixing the materials you may allow the combination to cool and the product may be stored in a jar with a secured lid.

When using you may polish the surface of the furniture with the mixture and let still for a couple of minutes to make sure that the oil is absorbed by the wood and then it may be cleaned-up with a clean cloth.

Aromatherapy Home Recipes for Disinfectant Air Freshener

Making an array of choices for variety and purpose seems a good idea. Few of the suggested are mixtures of alcohol, water, and lavender, spruce and orange. Below is a highly recommended recipe as well that make 1 ½ cup of the substance:

6 drops essential oil of tea tree
4 drops essential oil of white thyme
2 teaspoons 190-proof alcohol
8 drops essential oil of clove
Filtered or distilled water

Dissolve the essential oils in the alcohol. If the essential oils does not dissolve completely you may add another teaspoon of alcohol. After completely dissolving the oils in the alcohol you may fill-up the cup up to the ½ cup mark of the glass measuring cup. Store this combination in a glass bottle with a sprayer as lid.

When applying this substance, make sure the direction is to the air and not to people specifically faces as you know alcohol may cause irritation to sensitive skin and the eyes.

Aromatherapy Home Recipes - Stinky Sneaker Sachet Blend

It cannot be helped that shoes can pose a really big problem in terms of cleanliness in the household. Sometimes it is unavoidable not to walk around with it from the outside to the inside of your house. No doubt that most of us if not all of us has had a problem with smelly footwear. And with this home recipe this problem may as well be considered a close-book.

Here is a suggested solution with the use of essential oils and absorbent clay. The sachet of this combination may be left sitting in the sneakers overnight. Lavender, as the essential oil factor is preferable. The good thing about these sachets is as long as the scent is present it may still be reused.

1 teaspoon essential oil of tea tree
2 teaspoons essential oil of sandalwood
1/4 teaspoon each essential oils of spruce and lavender
1/2 teaspoon each essential oils of lemon and grapefruit
4 clean socks
4 cups natural clay cat litter
4 rubber bands

Mix the clay with the essential oils and let the mixture age for a week. Then the mixture is ready for use so you may put them in the clean socks and then seal those with the rubber bands.

Aromatherapy Home Recipes - Minty Fresh Sachet Blend

This suggested home recipe can make 2 ½ quarts of the mixture. This mixture is good if placed in the closet, dresser drawers and linen closet as well.

A suggested use of oakmoss (lichen), patchouli, myrrh, cedar, frankincense and vetiver is recommended for closet or cabinet with wool and fur garments. If your budget allows you may also use sandalwood. Any of these all-natural herbs needs to be crushed or chopped finely after completely drying them.

The recipe may be of highest quality with the following proportion:

2 cups peppermint leaves
4 cups lavender flowers
1 cup patchouli leaves
2 cups rosemary leaves
1/4 cup thyme leaves
1/2 cup whole cloves
10 drops essential oil of white camphor
5 drops essential oil of clove
20 drops essential oil of peppermint

Use a large glass or stainless steel bowl in mixing the abovementioned flora (flower) and foliage (leaves). On a separate jar mix the essential oils and stir well to ensure the uniformity of the solution of oils with the mixed flowers and leaves. After thorough mixing, place the combination in a glass jar and age it for several weeks. Make sure that the container has a secured lid and it must be placed in a cool dry place.

Further Reading: AromaLiving - Healthy Home.

All the above mentioned essential oils may be purchased through Mountain Rose Herb

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