Follow the simple recipes below to see how effective natural products can be. They can give your home a sweet smell while keeping your budget on the sweet side too.



You can add water to a potpourri burner and place two drops of fragrance oil (such as chamomile) on the water. After that, you can light your warming candle. With the water evaporating, your home will smell sweet as the scent is sent to the air. You can also add fragrance to your home without a special set-up. You've always had that silk floral arrangement of those plastic flowers in vases, so why not use them? You can hide the scent there by putting a few drops of oil. Now your flowers will be as if it really smells nice.

This can give your room a wonderful smell for quite a long time. You can also do it straw wreaths and other dried arrangements. You can always refresh them when you feel you need to. In other places where you have decorative arrangements, aside from making your room look beautiful, maximize it and make your home smelling fresh too.

Another trick is by using a cotton ball; you can put a few drops of fragrance or essential oil and place it at the back of your radiator. When the radiator (or also your heater) operates, it will emit the vapor with the scent. However, if you will be using this, you must be prepared to replenish the scent every so often.

A popular alternative, and a very cost efficient way to replace your chemical based air freshener in your home is by using a few slices of select citrus fruits like orange or grapefruit, or lemon and putting them on a pot of water over a stove. Upon simmering, this will gently release a citrusy scent around your home.

You can also have a home-made air freshener, just exactly like the one you purchase expensively and regularly. You can mix together baking soda and lemon juice 9at one tablespoon each) and two cups of hot water, shaken well together in a spray bottle. You can spray it liberally around your home as an alternative.

For sweet smelling laundry, you can put three drops of essential or fragrance oil to a clean damp washcloth and when you are drying your laundry in your automatic dryer, you can include the washcloth there and your clothes will absorb the scent. A common and preferred scent is lavender. This scent also has a disinfecting effect on clothes. There are a lot of alternatives that you can use to make your home smell clean. Nature has a lot of products that you can use, inexpensively, and safely.