How to make my kitchen smell...

blessings3

Lemony all day without using any nasty chemicals - Thansk:D

shell2001

Lemon oil in one of those burner things (sorry forgot name - kids poorly so sleep deprived).

elona

Put lemon slices in water in a cup and microwave it for a minute or two.

carlih1

If you put a couple of slices of lemon in the dishwasher in the cutlery tray, the silver comes out shining and the whole kitchen smells of lemon. yummy

Pink.

Hi blessings,

I'd agree with elona and the lemon slices in water, I also read a tip on here about boiling vinegar in water to get rid of nasty smells.....

but I can't help myself (sorry) from asking why do you want the kitchen to smell lemony? I love a clean smell at the end of the day, but during the day I want my kitchen to smell, well, like a kitchen. Lots of cooking and [strike]if they're lucky [/strike]baking smells.

Sorry not much help to you.

Pink

Anne_Marie_2

I make up a spray with essential oils and water to give chopping boards, kitchen surfaces etc. a wipe over, although can't say that I notice any smells from spray lingering, especially when I am cooking - I use them more to clean and as a natural disinfectant. Although, saying that, when you are in the house all the time, you don't really notice the smell, but others might.
Anyway, I use roughly 25 drops of essential oil (a mixture of different ones), with water in a plant spray bottle.

If you have a radiator in your kitchen, this might be a safer way of using essential oils rather than a burner.........
At this time of year, with the heating on, I put a piece of a cotton pad/cotton wool in an empty tea-light holder (those silver casings that the tea-lights come in), add a few drops of essential oil, top up with a little water and put on the top of the radiator - well on the top in the middle bit of radiator........is this making sense? Add more water every so often. Gives out a great fragrance, costs pennies. Toss out cotton pad and start again with the same or a different oil. Be careful not to overfill the little container with water - you don't want it dripping all over your flooring, which is why the cotton pad is so good.
You can also buy these things for hanging over your radiator to fill with water to be used as a kind of dehumidifier or something like that - anyway, same principal, you can use essential oils in these. My way is just cheaper - if you use tea lights, and not found any other use for the silver casings that are left over.

blessings3

Thanks everyone - do the lemon thing in the dishwasher already- That was actually what made me want the kitchen to have a clean lemony smell because I just love opening the diswasher now and was hopinhg it would help me love walking in the kitchen instead of fealing like a shell shocked rabbit

jojo3_2

I've got a lemon scented geranium plant that smells just beautiful everytime someone (or the dog!) brushes past it! at the moment its still out in the back yard but I will bring it inside fir the coldest part of the winter. Not that it gets very cold round these 'ere parts!

jobbingmusician

blessings3 wrote:

I ....was hopinhg it would help me love walking in the kitchen instead of fealing like a shell shocked rabbit

:rotfl:

You're in the right place to learn to become a braver rabbit, blessings3 :beer:

Trishh_2

Be careful using essential oils if you have cats. Research has shown a lot of oils (incl lemon and lavender ) to be toxic to cats. Repeated inhalation can cause serious liver damage and sometimes even death. Their liver can't cope the same way as humans. Just thought I'd mention this to raise awareness

Trish

Anne_Marie_2

I wasn't aware of that Trishh - obviously don't have cats, however, will try to bear that in mind when talking about using essential oils. Actually got a vet just across the road, so will be asking about this one. Not that it will put me off using the oils in my own home, which are animal free - I am allergic to cats!
Still, please ask your vet if you have an animal in your house - I love animals!