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
Herb Soap Concentrate
Makes about 1/2 cup
By incorporating essential oils into an oil soap concentrate (I use Murphy’s Oil Soap paste, available at hardware stores), then diluting the mixture with the herbal infusion described above, I get a double shot of herbal cleaning power. I usually use lemon or orange essential oil because they are relatively inexpensive, but many other oils may be used.
1 tablespoon essential oil or combination of essential oils (about 1/2 ounce) and 1/2 cup or more concentrated oil soap paste
Wearing gloves and using a stainless-steel spoon and glass measuring cup, stir the essential oil into the soap paste. Tilt the cup to the side. If oil separates from the mixture around the edges, add more paste and stir. Larger quantities can be made with a mixer or blender.
Store the concentrate in a wide-mouthed glass jar. Label it well (it looks like apple jelly). This quantity will make up to 30 quarts of cleaning solution. To use, dilute it by adding 1 to 3 teaspoons of concentrate to 4 cups of water or herbal infusion.
I use my Herb Soap Concentrate for cleaning almost all of my wood furniture and woodwork. For wood finished with shellac or varnish, I follow up by rubbing in essential oil of lemon with a lamb’s-wool duster. Once or twice a year, I damp-mop my hardwood floors, then rub lemon oil on them, too. I do this when I can open all the windows, as the scent is intense.
Citrus Scrubber
Makes 1 cup
I save this scouring powder for my grungiest jobs, such as the bathroom and kitchen sinks, using a loofah on light stains and a nylon scrubbing pad on tough ones. I usually use as a base a powdered calcium carbonate cleanser such as Bon Ami, but sometimes I combine borax and baking soda in equal proportions. Essential oils cut greasy dirt, battle microbes, and add an appealing scent.
1 cup powdered calcium carbonate cleanser, or 1/2 cup each borax and baking soda.
11/2 teaspoons each essential oils of lemon, orange, and grapefruit.
Pour the cleanser (or borax and baking soda) into a glass bowl. Stir in the lemon, orange, and grapefruit oils, mashing any lumps with a fork. Store in a glass or metal jar with a lid. Wear gloves when you use this cleanser.
Aromatherapy Home Recipes - Fragrant Wood Polish
This Aromatherapy home recipes is good for wood with an oil finish.
Makes about 1 cup
This formula forms a soft paste that can be applied with a wool or cotton rag or lamb’s-wool pad. I use it on fine furniture about once a year.
- 1 ounce beeswax
- 8 ounces mineral oil
- 1/2 teaspoon essential oil of Peru balsam
- 1/4 teaspoon each essential oils of lavender, orange, tangerine, and lemon
- 1/8 teaspoon each essential oils of bergamot, rosemary, and spruce
In a double boiler, melt the beeswax in the mineral oil. Remove the upper pan from the lower one, allow the mixture to cool slightly (but not to the point at which the surface skims over), and stir in the essential oils. Allow the mixture to cool completely. Store in a jar with a tight lid.
Apply the polish to the wood surface sparingly with a rag or pad, leave it for about 5 minutes to allow the wood to absorb it, then rub off any excess with a clean cloth.
Aromatherapy Home Recipes for Disinfectant Air Freshener
Makes 1/2 cup
I make a variety of convenient sprays by combining essential oils with alcohol and water. I like to keep several on hand, including orange, lavender, and spruce as well as the combination given below.
- 4 drops essential oil of white thyme
- 6 drops essential oil of tea tree
- 8 drops essential oil of clove
- 2 teaspoons 190-proof alcohol
- Filtered or distilled water
In a glass measuring cup, stir the oils into the alcohol. If the oils do not dissolve in the alcohol completely, add another teaspoon of alcohol. Then add water to the 1/2-cup line. Pour the solution into a glass bottle with a spray nozzle.
To use, spray into the air, avoiding people’s faces.
Aromatherapy Home Recipes - Stinky Sneaker Sachet Blend
Makes 4 sachets
Most of the dirt that gets into our homes hitchhikes on our shoes. Remove them at the door, and you might spend less time cleaning. But taking footwear off at our house exposes another problem: stinky sneakers.
To solve it, I’ve made sachets filled with absorbent clay cat litter scented with an assortment of essential oils. I place a sachet in each sneaker and leave it there overnight. Below is the formula that my boys like; I prefer more lavender myself. You may reuse the sachets for as long as the scent lasts.
- 2 teaspoons essential oil of sandalwood
- 1 teaspoon essential oil of tea tree
- 1/2 teaspoon each essential oils of lemon and grapefruit
- 1/4 teaspoon each essential oils of spruce and lavender
- 4 cups natural clay cat litter
- 4 clean socks
- 4 rubber bands
Stir the oils into the cat litter in a glass jar, cover, and let the mixture age for a week. Fill the socks with the sachet blend and close them with the rubber bands.
Aromatherapy Home Recipes - Minty Fresh Sachet Blend
You can put this Aromatherapy home recipes in the linen and clothes closets and dresser drawers.
Makes about 21/2 quarts
Use this blend in drawers and closets, particularly where woolens and furs are stored. The bulk herbs absorb the oils and help fix and marry the fragrances. Sandalwood is one of my favorite fixatives, but because it is fairly expensive, I often substitute oakmoss (a lichen), patchouli, cedar, vetiver, frankincense, or myrrh.
Whichever herbs you choose, dry them completely, then chop or crush them finely or powder them before blending.
- 4 cups lavender flowers
- 2 cups peppermint leaves
- 2 cups rosemary leaves
- 1 cup patchouli leaves
- 1/2 cup whole cloves
- 1/4 cup thyme leaves
- 5 drops essential oil of clove
- 10 drops essential oil of white camphor
- 20 drops essential oil of peppermint
In a large glass or stainless-steel bowl, mix together the lavender, peppermint, rosemary, patchouli, cloves, and thyme. Add the oils and stir well. Place the mix in a glass jar, cover, and age in a cool, dry, dark place for several weeks. Make sachets and fill with the herb blend.
Further Reading: AromaLiving - Healthy Home.
You can buy all of the ingredients in this aromatherapy home recipes at Mountain Rose Herb
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