6 Natural Ways to Make Your Home Smell Good
- Indoor Plants
- Simmer Pot
- Essential Oils
- Natural Cleaning Products
- Clean-burning Candles & Wax Melts
- Natural Sprays & Gels
Harsh chemicals like bleach and ammonia, scented candles, and air freshener sprays have been used for decades to remove unpleasant odors from homes. New studies have shown that many common household cleaners can cause a number of health problems.
Take bleach, for instance. This and other mild household cleaners contain chlorine, a chemical that destroys bacterial growth. Too much exposure to these products can lead to chlorine poisoning — difficulty breathing, severe coughing, stomach pain, and other symptoms.
Natural cleaning products — including plant-based Fresh Wave odor removers — can be just as effective as their harsh counterparts. In fact, you can naturally eliminate these common household odors or bad smells that come and go without ever needing to reach for products containing bleach, ammonia, and potentially harmful cleaning agents.
Our fresh smelling home tips exclude harmful chemicals completely. Isn’t that the way it should be? Here’s a handful of natural ways to make your house smell good.
6 Natural Ways To Make Your House Smell Good
1. Indoor Plants
The purest way to make your home smell good is with plants that clean air indoors and improve air quality. Whether it’s with seasonally-fresh flowers picked right out of the yard, a rubber tree, aloe vera, or a peace lily, set any one of these purifying plants around your home and let nature do its job.
Instead of spraying perfumes or lighting candles that smell like flowers/plants, use the real, natural thing. And it’s okay if you don’t fancy yourself someone with a green thumb – the plants we recommended require minimal care.
Plants are just one of the many natural ways to clean air in a home and fight common odors and a great way to start a new hobby!
2. Simmer Pot
You also don’t have to be an expert chef to cook up and try this easy trick for making your house smell good. The idea behind a simmer pot is to mix together complementary, aromatic ingredients that are readily available in your pantry or fridge.
If you really want to get fancy, you can theme your pots by season. Our personal favorite is a fall simmer pot filled with cinnamon, apples, and cloves. The solution for how to make your house smell good naturally is right in your kitchen.
3. Essential Oils
Keep the house smelling fresh with essential oils that come from nature. One of the most popular ways to float the relaxing scent of lavender or invigorating scent of citrus throughout your home is to plug in an oil diffuser, fill it with water, and pour a few drops of your favorite essential oil in. Before you know it, freshness will fill the air.
4. Natural Cleaning Products
In keeping with the idea of essential oils, did you know many natural cleaning products now contain lavender, orange, and lemon oils? It’s refreshing to see major manufacturers of chemical-filled cleaning products starting to adopt a more sustainable outlook.
Many now offer lines of cleaning products that are eco-friendly and contain zero harsh chemicals. They work just as well and can even remove the smell of mold and mildew from any room in your home.
We keep going back to it, but cleaning with bleach is something that should be avoided if possible. We won’t deny that it can be a highly powerful and effective cleaning aid, but its smell is incredibly overpowering and can linger in your home for several days post-cleaning. Fumes can even get permanently trapped in your carpet or upholstery. If you’re struggling to remove bleach odor from your home, try our recommendations.
5. Clean-Burning Candles
Both of these options are effective, natural ways to make your house smell good. Wax melts are used in special plug-ins that heat up and can be used over and over again, while candles have a shorter shelf life. It really just depends on your personal preference. At Fresh Wave, we carry Odor Removing Candles that are packed with powerful plant oils and are clean-burning with soy and beeswax.
6. Natural Sprays & Gels
No more spraying chemically-scented sprays into the air to quickly mask an odor. Haven’t you noticed that those sprays don’t ever really mask or eliminate an odor, but mix with unpleasant odors to make everything smell worse?
Fresh Wave’s Odor Removing Spray is the ultimate alternative to harmful air fresheners and Fresh Wave’s Odor Removing Gels absorb unfavorable odors better than others. Feel good knowing what you’re spraying into the air, especially around kids and pets.
Our fresh smelling home tips are here to help you fight and eliminate odors the safe and natural way. Which method listed above are you excited to try first? By the way, you don’t have to stick to just one. Fire up a simmer pot when the whole house needs an aroma pick-me-up, open up a jar of Fresh Wave Gel in your teenager’s bedroom, plug in an essential oil diffuser in your home office, light a candle in the bathroom, or place a different indoor plant in every room.
