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Make home fragrances with essential oils

essentil oils and home fragrance

If you are like me, you like to keep your home smelling fresh and wonderful, but sometimes the joys of everyday life can get in the way. Kids, cooking, and indoor pets can all make us turn up our nose at the way our house smells. Using essential oils as a home fragrance can be an easy way to rid your home of the smells that can assault your nose.

Several drops of cinnamon oil or peppermint oil placed on cotton balls and put into a small jar or an empty margarine container with a few holes poked in the lids and placed behind a picture or behind furniture will leave your guest bedroom or bathroom smelling wonderful.

A few dabs of eucalyptus, oil of clove, or peppermint on a cool light bulb will ensure wonderful smells when the light is turned on, and the heat from the bulb allows the smell of the oil to drift across the room.

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Summer scent blends for soapmakers

three soapsIf you make your own soap as I do, then you probably get a hankering for creating some fresh, clean scented soaps for summer.

And again, if you are like me, you only use essential oils and other natural essences to scent your soaps.

Sometimes creating blends can be tricky, especially for beginners, because you aren't quite sure how to balance the different scents out, or maybe your scent blends evaporate too quickly out of the soap because they aren't grounded well.

Here are some classic and some not-so-familiar blends, kept simple, that you might enjoy this summer.

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