When purchasing synthetic air fresheners to scent the interior of a car or living space, we often have to deal with a very pungent, artificial smell that causes more headaches than scent delight. You can avoid such a nuisance if you make a do-it-yourself fragrance from natural ingredients.
A natural fragrance that exudes an unobtrusive favorite scent, will help to effectively and safely refresh the air in living quarters, public places, and the car interior. In addition, such fragrances can be used to deodorize laundry, protect clothing from moths, and remove unpleasant odors from the refrigerator and microwave oven.
Making a dry natural flavor
To make such an air freshener, you will need a dense fabric with a mesh structure: burlap, coarse linen, embroidery canvas will do. A bag or any simple figure is sewn from a small patch of fabric.
Having retreated 1-2 cm from the upper edge, holes are made in the bag through which a ribbon or a beautiful ribbon is passed. The ribbon should be easy to untie and allow access to the contents of the fragrance for replacement as the odor wears off.
The finished bag is decorated with decorative elements, a loop is sewn on and the filling is started. As a filler, coffee beans, an aromatic mixture of cinnamon and vanilla, cloves and dried orange peels, anise, caraway seeds, fennel can be used.
Herbal lovers can fill the bag with dried mint, lavender, lemon balm, verbena, chamomile, or ready-made herbal teas and teas.
For those who love coniferous aromas, the ideal option would be to fill the bag with fresh sawdust or small scraps of fragrant wood with the addition of a few drops of essential oil of fir, pine, cedar.
You can replace wood with coarse-crystalline sea salt or table salt. Salt absorbs well and retains the aromas of essential oils, has a healing effect on human health.
Making liquid and gel natural flavoring
To create a liquid fragrance, you need small bottles - from essential oils or medicines. Such bottles can be decorated according to your own taste: painted with stained glass paints, decorated using decoupage technique, covered with fabric, etc.
The container is sealed with a piece of bottle cork, in which a small hole is made and a decorative string is passed through it. The vial is filled with your favorite essential oil or multi-oil composition. The lace, dipped in oil, is soaked in it and begins to exude a delicate aroma.
For a richer scent, you can add a few drops of essential oil to the surface of the cork.
Gel flavor is made using gelatin, glycerin, and essential oils. A bag of gelatin is dissolved in water, according to the instructions, after which it is mixed with 1-2 tsp. glycerin until a homogeneous dense mass is obtained.
To give the fragrance an attractive look, the mixture can be tinted with water-soluble food colors or gouache, decorative elements can be added: flowers, plant twigs, beads, small shells, etc.
A few drops of essential oils are added to the cooled mixture, after which the mass is laid out in a previously prepared container and left to solidify. The fragrance looks most impressive in curly transparent bottles.
