Your home should be a welcoming place for you and your family and guests. Keeping it clean, fresh, and pleasing to smell should be an essential part of homeownership. Not only will you feel good at a clean place your guests too will feel like coming back. However, you would say it is impossible to achieve this because you cook, have pets at home, and many external factors. We say it is possible with these easy and natural tips.
- Use Scented Candles: Decorate your open spaces with scented candles. Use pleasing fragrances like lavender, rose, sandalwood, oak tree. The open spaces allow the odours to pervade, thus making your whole house fragrant. Also, candles are an excellent decor piece to warm up the ambience, especially when winters are here.
- Diffusers/wax : Like candles, you can also use diffusers or wax-melters in your home to keep it fresh and pleasant. You can burn camphor in the diffuser set to ward off negative energies, dust particles, and any other toxicity in the air. Then, use essential oils to create a calming and sense invigorating effect in your home. Diffusers are good alternatives to candles as they are safe and long-lasting. Some of them can be even plugged to the outlet and ensure consistently timed puffed out scents all through the day.
- Incense Sticks: The incense stick burning in your home temple can give your home a warm, sweet scent. Go for jasmine, rose, Chandan scents in the incense sticks for that homely feeling. You can burn the incense stick in the incense holder, and it will fill the atmosphere with magnificent smells lasting for a day. If you use this, burn them twice a day, morning and evening.
- Make Potpourri: Potpourris are made using dried leaves and flowers with essential oils. It’s an excellent way to make your house smell like a fresh blooming garden. Only natural ingredients are used in a potpourri. You can either avail a ready-made potpourri, or you can make one at home.
- Collect dry leaves and flowers.
- Buy essential oils.
- In microwave proof vessel, add essential oils and heat the dry leaves and flowers
- Now transfer it into a glass bowl and dish, place a tealight candle in the centre.
- Place your potpourri in bathroom cabinets or in drawing rooms as decor pieces.
- Nurture Plants: Green plants offer benefits of freshness and livability. In your home, have both tropical and flowering plants like Bamboo tree, Rose flower plant, Peace Lily, Hibiscus, Jasmine, Spearmint, Lemon balm for a burst of freshness with fragrance. You can keep the plants near the windows, in rooms or in your balcony or open space.
- Open the Windows: This may seem obvious, but it can do wonders. By opening the windows for a while, you let in the fresh air. The fresh air will make your living space more breathable. If you have a garden or trees near your home, it will add a dash of natural crispness.
- Bake: What’s one sweet way to make your home smell good? Bake. Bake some cookies or whip some cream. Let your baked goods cool down in open spaces like the living room, dining room so that the wafts of baked goods can rise up through space.
With these tips, keep your home fresh and pleasant.