Cleaning with Essential Oils

Relaxation bedtime spray:

• 4 drops lavender

• 4 drops serenity

Mixed in a glass spray bottle with filtered water.  You can spray this mix on your sheets to help you wind down at the end of the day.  You could also use this blend on you sheets in the laundry.

Cleaning with Essential Oils

This is one of my current favorites.  Put several drops of your favorite essential oil on a disposable cloth or tissue and place in the collecting bag of the vacuum.  This will emit a very pleasant aroma while you are running the vacuum.  I have actually had my kids (2 & 4 yrs)  running the vacuum just to help get the yummy smell in my house, and they are probably picking up some stuff.

Cleaning with Essential Oils

Dish Soap/Dishwasher

Add several drops of your favorite oil to liquid soap or dishwasher soap dispenser to improve the cleaning and sanitizing action such as:  Lemon, Melaleuca, Wild Orange, Citrus Bliss, On Guard, Peppermint, etc.

Cleaning with Essential Oils

Okay so I am at the end of my pregnancy and I am nesting, and therefore cleaning the house and organizing.  I usually do this in the fall anyway, but this year I am doing it now instead of right before all the holidays.  I figure I will give you little tips and recipes on how I use my essential oils to clean as I go.  Today I am working on the laundry.  Essential oils are fabulous to sanitize laundry and linens.  We shed dead skin cells constantly (pretty gross I know) and they land in our bedding.  Dust mites live in our bedding, feeding off the dead skin.  Eucalyptus oil kills dust mites, and bed bugs!  Add 10 drops of eucalyptus to each wash load, or about 1/2 ounce oil to a bottleof liquid detergent.  Eucalyptus can also be sprayed onto the mattress.  Purify Blend oil in the wash also sanitizes the laundry. 

Essential oils can also be added tot he rinse cycle.  Drop several drops of your favorite oil. 

Purify blend was proven to help kill bed bugs last year with the bed bug outbreak, I am using this one today in my bedding as I wash it (not that we have bed bugs, but just to sanitize and purify.  I also love how clean and fresh it smells.

Cleaning with Essential Oils

Essential oils are great for cleaning anything!!  They can kill viruses, bacteria, dustmites, mold, stale air, airborne germs, and get rid of unpleasant odors.  They can keep bugs, spiders, ants, etc., from invading your home.  They are safe to use on fabrics and clothing.

Basic Disinfectant:
In a glass spray bottle (as oils will break down plastic), mix distilled or filtered water, a squirt of natural soap and 5-15 drops each of lemon, lavender, and lemongrass.  Straight lemon will also work great.  You can also add a few drops of eucalyptus, lavender, lemon, lime, wild orange, purify, etc.

One of my Favorites

Are you getting the recommend amount of water you need each day?  I know this is something I struggle with, but to help me out I try adding different things to my water like lemons or limes.  Now it is even easier, I just add some lemon or lime essential oil instead and I don't have to mess with the seeds or worry about how clean the outside of the fruit is and I get all the benefits of the essential oils!!!  What are the benefits you ask...  Well they are very numerous, but a few I have listed below.

Lemon:  Used to help the digestive system, immune system and respiratory system.  It is been know to help fight food poisoning, heartburn, throat infection, varicose veins, purify water, dissolve cellulite, and anxiety.

Lime:  Used to help the same body systems as lemon, and is great for a boost in energy, cleansing the lymphatic system, sore throats,  and memory improvement.








Both of these oils are very similar in their uses, so if you don't have one use the other.