Today Gabe and I made air fresheners. You can find the original pin for it here.
As I've mentioned before I have 2 small boys who I love with all my heart. Most of my pregnancy symptoms have gone away with the exception of the rediculous amount of pounds of course, and the pregnancy nose. I can smell when people in my office are eating lunch at their desk and I can, for the most part, tell what kind of food they are eating. Why am I telling you this? Because it's why I decided to make these air fresheners. I can't stand the smell of plug-in air fresheners or the spray kinds. They make me sick to my stomach and give me a headache. But I have a large breed dog and two messy kids a messy husband (sorry babe but its true). My house smells odd sometimes :)
I LOVE THESE THINGS! My house doesn't smell and the only time you smell the oils is if you close the room off you smell it for a few minutes then and then the smell dissipaits. I have one on a shelf near a window. This weekend we had amazing weather in the middle of winter, welcome to Georgia, so I smelled the cirtrus when the breeze was blowing in the window.
I reused several kinds of containers that were already in my house. The one in the picture above is a butter container form organic butter that I got at the farmers market. I cut holes in the lid and used it in the trashcan. The whole point of the baking soda is to absorb smells, its why your supposed to keep a box of it in the fridge to keep the smells contained so they don't affect other foods in there. I love the smell of citrus it make everything smell fresh and clean so the essential oil I chose was a citris blend. You place the baking soda in the container & then put several drops into the container. Replace lid & you have a homemade baking soda air freshener
I have some pictures below to help out if you need it. :)
Here's what you need:
Containers of your choosing
Essential oils of your choosing
Baking Soda
Place about a 1/2 cup of baking soda in the container.
Then use about 8 drops or so of the essential oils of your choosing. I'd honestly say start small and go big if you need to because you don't want to have to start over.
Viola your done
As I've mentioned before I have 2 small boys who I love with all my heart. Most of my pregnancy symptoms have gone away with the exception of the rediculous amount of pounds of course, and the pregnancy nose. I can smell when people in my office are eating lunch at their desk and I can, for the most part, tell what kind of food they are eating. Why am I telling you this? Because it's why I decided to make these air fresheners. I can't stand the smell of plug-in air fresheners or the spray kinds. They make me sick to my stomach and give me a headache. But I have a large breed dog and two messy kids a messy husband (sorry babe but its true). My house smells odd sometimes :)
I LOVE THESE THINGS! My house doesn't smell and the only time you smell the oils is if you close the room off you smell it for a few minutes then and then the smell dissipaits. I have one on a shelf near a window. This weekend we had amazing weather in the middle of winter, welcome to Georgia, so I smelled the cirtrus when the breeze was blowing in the window.
I reused several kinds of containers that were already in my house. The one in the picture above is a butter container form organic butter that I got at the farmers market. I cut holes in the lid and used it in the trashcan. The whole point of the baking soda is to absorb smells, its why your supposed to keep a box of it in the fridge to keep the smells contained so they don't affect other foods in there. I love the smell of citrus it make everything smell fresh and clean so the essential oil I chose was a citris blend. You place the baking soda in the container & then put several drops into the container. Replace lid & you have a homemade baking soda air freshener
I have some pictures below to help out if you need it. :)
Here's what you need:
Containers of your choosing
Essential oils of your choosing
Baking Soda
Place about a 1/2 cup of baking soda in the container.
Then use about 8 drops or so of the essential oils of your choosing. I'd honestly say start small and go big if you need to because you don't want to have to start over.
Viola your done
Side note
| I found several kinds of bottles in my house that worked. Anthing from mason jars to Gerber graduate food containters. I even used a honey container for one of my boys rooms. I used citrus in the trashcan, bathroom and living room. But all of my men have breathing/sinus problems so I used Eualyptus for the ones for the bedrooms. Because I read here that it was good for sinus problems. In the fridge though you'll need to make sure you don't use any essential oils it's only there to absorb smells. |  |
Below are some photos of the ones I created and some of the steps.
 This is the one for the trashcan. Its plastic so it doesn't get broken  Here's the one in the fridge. I did put more holes in this one to make sure to keep the fridge smelling fresh. |  I used left over scrapbook paper and a scrapbook hole punch.  I used the pretty mason jars with the pretty paper to put in ones that are being seen. |  |  |
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