First, the following important information
- A room spray is a useful addition, especially for supporting moods and/or mental processes.
- A room spray is not intended to suppress unpleasant odors.
- A room should smell pleasant first and foremost because it is regularly tidied, cleaned, and ventilated with clean, fresh air from outside, if possible.
- Bad smells can be easily removed by
- emptying the trash cans in time, or immediately after bad smelling waste has been thrown into the bin
- changing the hood filter in time
- cleaning the hood itself in time
- keeping the oven, countertops, and floors clean
- by using the hood while cooking, or frying.
- by opening windows, daily, completely, for at least 15 minutes, especially after cooking,
- cooking odors can be quickly neutralized by heating a pan of water and adding a dash of cleaning vinegar.
- by leaving a window vent open at all times
- Ideal cleaning agents are
- green soap,
- a mixture of water, baking soda, and vinegar in the correct proportions
Recipe for a room spray
Needed:
- a fine-mist spray-bottle
- an empty, hygienically cleaned, glass jar, with metal screw lid, to stir the liquid before adding this to the spray bottle
- 2 dl clean water from the tap, if not available use mineral water, or distilled water
- glycerine, available in the drugstore
- glycerine is a type of carbohydrate known as a sugar alcohol or a polyol
- glycerine mixes excellently with both water and essential oil, while oils do not, and float on the top of the water; you will always have to shake the bottle before using if you use oils
- essential oil does not solve in water without glycerine.
- the essential oil of your choice
Recipe:
- add 2 teaspoons glycerine to the glass jar
- add 20-50 drops essential oil of your choice: start with 20, and decide later what is affordable for you, what you experience as nice, but do not exceed the maximum. An overdose can create breathing problems. In case this would happen: open quickly a window and lower the dosage by adding more water
- mix glycerine and essential oil till the essential oil has been dissolved in the glycerine
- add 2 dl water
- close the glass jar, shake the jar with both hands
- take the funnel, put it into the spray bottle opening, poor the liquid into the spray bottle
- close the spray bottle
Attention: lavender is a very nice essential oil for a bedroom, while rosemary or bay laurel are more fitting in a study room.
