HM room / air freshener / deodoriser

houseofboys

Thanks for all the replies,will order some essential oils online and go from there!

P.s don't like that advert either.....although the one that drives me nuts atm is that *we buy any car dot com* :mad: I hear it on the radio all the time.....AArrrggghhhhhh

LJM

boots used to sell it i thought.i get mine in big boxes from my local hardware shop

greenbee

I buy my bicarb in bulk from summer naturals (when ordering other things - I get my vinegar, epsom salts and sometimes essential oils such as tea-tree, eucalyptus, orange etc for cleaning there, so it makes sense to order everything at once).

Penelope_Penguin

As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the exisitng thread on how to keep your home smelling nice, to keep ideas together

Penny. x

charlysez

carolt wrote: »

Despite cleaning loo, floor etc, there's still just an unpleasant 'odour' hanging round our downstairs loo.

As lots of allergies in the family (and it's environmentally unfriendly/not money saving) I'd rather not use air freshener. Does anyone have any 'natural' suggestions, preferably using normal ingredients? I do have some essential oils I could use but haven't a clue how to use them to make a room smell nice.

Any ideas?

depending on how big your little room is, you might get some use out of one of those fridge egg things, i put one in my understair cupboards and it neutralised the stale smell in there.

charlysez

i buy bottles of zoflora disinfectant, then mix with some water to fill up my empty ambi pur bottles for the plug ins. cheap as chips and smell good too

norbitonite

Pink-winged wrote: »

I have no idea how long the candle will last, but it's worth a try. I'd be really interested in how long your candle lasts if you wouldn't mind posting back because it may well be more cost effective than the tarts.

Just a tip, if you have trouble getting the wax out of your burner (like I did) pop it into the fridge for an hour and it should slip out easily with the help of a blunt knife.

Pink

Hi, I'm a newbie here and apologies if this has already been mentioned, but I haven't finished the whole thread yet. I just wanted to pass on a useful tip I learnt elsewhere that tackles a couple of the queries I've read here.

Like others, I use an oil burner to use up the remaining wax from scented jar candles (there are currently some excellent soy ones in my local 99p store). Whilst in said store, and in response to the aforementioned tip, I also picked up a pack of 10 silicone mini muffin moulds. I now pop the wax in a muffin mould and place that in the dish of the burner. The wax melts slightly more slowly, but still diffuses fragrance just as well. When you've finished, the wax then hardens into a tart and you can just pop it out of the mould for reuse later and swap in another fragrance. You could even actually use it to make tarts to give as gifts.

If you normally use tarts, I'd still recommend crumbling it into the muffin mould for a no mess, no fuss way of using them that makes it easy to swap between fragrances without having to get a knife to the dish of your burner.

Much earlier in the thread, SO was commenting that the dish on her burner was too shallow. Well this is also a good way to overcome that as you just put your water and oil into the mould, pop that onto the dish and Bob's your uncle.

happylion1

My friend, who is an aromatherapist , told me to always use an oil burner ring round a lightbulb . Apparently placing essential /scented oil on a lightbulb can cause the lightbulb to explode, as the oil heats up.
Lavendercat.com advises care in using essential oils around cats.
I use matches/ incense sticks in cat frequented areas, essential oil spray ( not in same area as cats ) and oil burners and scented candles ( again away from cats different room).
There is a spray air freshner in the bathroom currently but don't use it often, thinking of using a homemade oil mix one instead.Or matches.

BigMummaF

This thread is of real interest to me as commercial products give my allergy/asthma a bad time. I've had to leave friends homes before, as I couldn't see through blood-shot eyes or worse still, catch my breath
For this reason we keep a box of matches in the bathroom to combat the more obvious aromas, but I'd like to find something to help around the house. Citrus things like washing up liquid is the worst for me & I love things like loganberry, amber & vanilla & burn the odd incense stick.
Any ideas what I might be able to try next or failing that, how often I should change the bicarb

squeakysue

How do people save money on air fresheners? I have to use aerosols in the bathroom especially after my other half and 9 yr old son have been in lol! So that's an aerosol upstairs and one downstairs! I also buy a gel type to leave in the porch for a nice whiff as we enter the house. Just wondered if there was an OS air freshener solution that could save me a few quid!