We all love nice fragrances. The trouble is, when it comes to scenting your home, most of them are not made naturally.
Don’t worry, you’d be forgiven for thinking they are, given the way most of them are marketed so cleverly.
Words like ‘nature-inspired’ and ‘includes essential oils’ and ‘scents from nature’ are chosen very carefully to trigger your desire to take care of your home and family and assume these room fragrances are natural. But often this is misleading. You need to read the label, check their websites, inquire with their customer service and ask for specifics and see if the answers verify the specifics behind what is being advertised.
It’s very tempting to succumb to plenty of these glamorously advertised room scenting devices and sprays if you don’t know the alternatives: essential oils. Be sure to choose the genuinely pure and authentic ones. Again, this can be a minefield and we’ve dedicated entire posts to how to check these. We’ve done our own research and we trust Young Living to take care of all our essential oil, cleaning and wellness needs.
So how do you use essential oils to fragrance your rooms naturally?
Well, we humans love things to smell great and we love them to be easy, too! Diffusers make using essential oils to scent your rooms super-easy! Diffusing is something that benefits the whole family in one easy action.
And by making it easy, you’re more likely to keep doing it daily and reinforce the pattern so that it becomes a regular habit. When using your diffuser daily becomes something you do automatically, you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it!
Different styles and models operate differently (get your rundown here), but the basic fundamentals are the same: place your favourite diffusing essential oils in your diffuser and switch it on. The diffuser turns the essential oil into a micro-fine mist laden with goodness that stays suspended in the air for some time, scenting it beautifully, healthfully and bringing all of the oil’s wonderful benefits to everyone who’s lucky enough to be in its vicinity.
So the first step is to order at least one diffuser.
If it doesn’t come with a timer (plenty of them now do), we recommend you get a plug-in timer for the electrical point, too. This makes it easy to set your diffuser going at regular intervals, or even time it specifically to coincide with certain things like starting half an hour before you’re due to arrive home, or starting 15 minutes before you’re arising in the morning.
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Now, let’s get on with those 6 relaxing ways to fragrance your home naturally.
Use your diffuser daily as already described, choosing oils that are both relaxing and uplifting. If someone in the home really doesn’t enjoy any of them in particular – scents are so individual, your favourite could be someone else’s fragrance nightmare! – take it out of your essential oils diffusing rotation. There are so many from which to choose, there’s no need to for anyone to be stoically enduring. Make it fun and beautiful for everyone.
Be sure to switch to a genuinely natural green cleaner. If the scent is more subtle than you’d like, boost it up with clean-smelling essential oils like Young Living Citrus Fresh™ and lemon myrtle (it’s a subtle shift from lemon and smells absolutely divine!). The cleaner I use for absolutely everything around the home is Young Living Thieves® Household Cleaner – I even clean my oven with it and never use gloves. Every time you’re cleaning, you’re scenting your home naturally.
Put several drops of your favourite essential oil on a tissue, vacuum up then proceed with your vacuuming. If the fragrance starts to fade, add another oil-infused tissue and hop to it again.
Switch to natural essential oil-laden products for showering. The power of the fragrance of shower gels and shampoos in your home can’t be underestimated. And it’s something you’re doing daily anyway – so make sure the experience is a healthful, beneficial one when it comes to the scent you’re inhaling. Young Living makes a beautiful range – and you can also DIY your own custom fragrances by using a scent-free shower gel like Young Living Bath & Shower Base and adding your favourite combo of essential oils to it.
Turn doing the laundry into an aromatic joy that is actually good for you – unlike those commercial laundry cleaners that give off very strong fumes. We sound like a broken record here at The Good Oil Daily, but why use other brands when we love Young Living. They have an absolutely awesome Thieves® Laundry Soap that brings your laundry up beautifully clean – and you have the peace of mind of knowing the delicate scent is 100% genuinely pure.
Wash the dishes, dry the dishes, turn the dishes over … with a naturally-powered and scented dishwashing liquid. Does yours include the exoticism of Jade Lemon and Bergamot? Young Living Dish Soap does! I’m not saying it will make your kids want to help with the washing up, but at least if you have to do it, you’ll feel chirpier about it thanks to its pure and uplifting essential oils.
This will also connect you up with The Good Oil Team for our personal support and coaching. We'd love to help you on your journey to vibrant well-being the natural way!
Any questions? Please get in touch via our Contact page.
Essential oils are potent, so as always, please follow directions on the bottle and the usual guidelines for safe use of authentic essential oils.
Please ensure you are choosing a brand with complete transparency from seed to seal, such as Young Living. You can learn in this short video why we only ever recommend and choose Young Living oils and love them so much!
