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Want your home to smell fresh, cozy, and inviting without relying on artificial sprays? In this video, I’m sharing 9 simple ways to use essential oils to fragrance your home naturally. These easy ideas will help you create a clean, welcoming atmosphere in every room using just a few drops of your favorite oils.
From quick everyday tricks to a few creative ideas you may not have tried before, these tips make it easy to enjoy the benefits of essential oils while making your home smell amazing.
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00:00 INTRO
00:38 ESSENTIAL OILS VS FRAGRANCE OILS
01:28 ESSENTIAL OILS ON COTTON BALLS
02:58 DIY CARPET POWDER
03:56 ESSENTIAL OILS ON DRYER BALLS
04:50 DIY FABRIC REFRESHER
05:36 DIFFUSERS
07:26 ESSENTIAL OILS IN MOP WATER
08:38 ESSENTIAL OILS IN SHOWER
09:48 HUMIDIFIERS
10:54 GARDEN SPRAY
13:40 OUTRO
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Hi, it's Lindsay Diane from
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dianecor.com.
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In this video, we're going to talk about
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10 ways to use essential oils to
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fragrance your home. In recent years,
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there's been a big push towards using
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essential oils as an alternative to
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synthetic and chemicalbased fragrances
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in our homes. And while diffusers are
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the most popular option, there are so
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many more ways to use essential oils to
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fragrance your home. And I am excited to
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share those in this video. But first,
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let's talk about the difference between
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essential oils and fragrance oils.
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Essential oils are derived from plants
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through distillation or cold pressing,
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while fragrance oils are typically
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synthetic or blended with artificial
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compounds. Fragrance oils are designed
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purely for scent, while essential oils
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offer natural aromomas and in some cases
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some functional and therapeutical
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benefits.
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That being said, natural doesn't always
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mean gentle. Essential oils are potent
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and can still be irritating if overused.
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When you fragrance your home with
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essential oils, always start with a few
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drops and increase gradually. This will
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help prevent headaches or skin
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irritation or overpowering scents. So,
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with that, let's jump into 10 ways to
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use essential oils to fragrance your
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home. Number one is cotton balls and
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essential oils. By adding a few drops of
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essential oils to a couple of cotton
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balls, you can place them into the
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canister of your vacuum to help
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fragrance the air as you vacuum. So that
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canister where your dirt collects, drop
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a couple of cotton balls that have a few
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drops, two or three of essential oils on
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them into that canister. Run your vacuum
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like normal and you will scent your air
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as you vacuum. It is a, you know, a
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temporary scent solution. It doesn't
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last any longer than doing like carpet
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powder or something like that, but it's
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a great way to get a nice natural
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fragrance into your home. You can also
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place a couple of cotton balls with
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essential oils on them at the bottom of
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your trash can before you line it to
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help combat bad odors. Another way to
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use essential oils with cotton balls is
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to place them into little fabric bags to
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make your own drawer sachets. Now, you
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can either sew your own little sache or
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you can buy the little pouches, but all
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you need to do is add a couple of drops
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to some cotton balls, put it inside,
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tuck it in your drawer, and this is a
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great way to sort of fragrance your
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drawers. These are perfect to tuck into
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drawers, gym bags, you can use them in
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your car, you can use them in closets,
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any small space where you want to have
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a, you know, a nice subtle fragrance,
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these little sachets are perfect for
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that. and they're easy to do. Next up is
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DIY carpet powder. If you want to stay
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away from the traditional commercial
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carpet powders, it's very easy to make
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your own and it's a great way to
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fragrance your home. So, you're just
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going to take like a cup and a half of
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baking soda. I would say start with 10
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drops of essential oils, maybe go up
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from there. Anywhere from 10 to 20 for
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about a cup and a half. Shake it up. Put
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it into a like a spice container like
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maybe one of those large spice
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containers. I'm thinking like of the
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Tony's satcheries or um you know the
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shaky parmesan cheese containers that
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have the shake lid or a preferated lid
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that's kind of a decent size. Use one of
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those containers so that you can shake
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it out onto your carpet easily and you
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know let it sit for a few minutes just
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like you would any other carpet powder
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before you vacuum. This is a great way
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to fragrance your home. You can also do
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this on mattresses as well before you
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vacuum your mattresses. Number three is
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dryer balls and essential oils. If you
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like to use the wool dryer balls as an
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alternative to the disposable
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dryer sheets, just add a few drops of
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essential oils to your dryer balls. Toss
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them in with your laundry. Let them dry.
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It's a great way to fragrance your
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laundry and your home. Alternatively, if
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you do not have dryer balls, you can use
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a damp sponge and put a few essential
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oils on that and throw that in with the
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clean laundry. You could also use a damp
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rag and use a few drops of essential
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oils on that and throw it in with the
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laundry while it's drying. Remember that
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heat amplifies the scent quite a bit.
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So, just use a few drops, maybe two,
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three max for each of your dryer balls
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or three max for a sponge or a rag,
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that's going to be plenty. Next up is a
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DIY fabric refresher. So, if you're
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looking for an alternative to Fbreze or
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Odtoban or any of these other fabric
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refresher sprays, you can make your own
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with essential oils. It's very simple.
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All you need is a spray bottle, a cup or
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two of water, a few drops of essential
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oil, maybe five to 10, and you're going
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to add maybe a teaspoon of baking soda.
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Shake it up really well to help that
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baking soda dissolve. Each time you
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spray, you're going to want to make sure
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you shake up that bottle. And then
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you're going to just spray it onto your
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fabrics. You can use this to refresh
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mattresses. You can spray it on your
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rug, your couches, whatever you need.
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It's going to work spectacularly well
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and it's all natural. Next are
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diffusers. Now, this is the most common
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way to use essential oils to fragrance
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your home. There are traditional
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diffusers where they have water tanks
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and you're going to put a few drops of
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essential oils into the water and run
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the diffuser. Use your diffusers's
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recommendations for the oils because
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sometimes if you put too much of the oil
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in there, it can start to clog up the
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components. So, usually the diffusers
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will tell you how many drops you're
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supposed to use for the size of the tank
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that comes with your diffuser. There's
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no set standard for these because the
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tanks do vary from device to device. So,
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use the recommendations for that. If you
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have a waterless diffuser, that's going
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to sort of drop down a little um a
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little sort of like straw or pipette
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directly into an essential oil bottle
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and it's going to diffuse. The waterless
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diffusers are much, much stronger.
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They're pulling that straight
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concentrated oil out of the bottle, so
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you don't need to run it for nearly as
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long. I would start with the lowest
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possible setting. We got a waterless
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diffuser for the first time this summer,
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and I was really shocked at how strong
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it was to the point where sometimes I
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need to just kind of turn it off. Um,
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ours has a little setting where you can
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set it for like one hour, three hours,
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or continuously on. Um, I don't ever run
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it for more than three hours on the
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lowest setting because it's so so
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strong. So, keep that in mind when
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you're using diffusers around your home.
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The diffusers with the water tanks give
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you more flexibility. You can control
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how much essential oils you put in to
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make it, you know, a stronger or a
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lighter fragrance. So, those are great
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if you want that flexible option or if
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you're sensitive to smells. I would go
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with that over the waterless ones.
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Another way to fragrance your home as
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you clean is to add a few drops of
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essential oils to your mop water. So, as
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you're mopping your floors, you are
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going to help distribute that scent.
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It's no different than you're using
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pineol or fabuloso. These are all sort
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of scented cleaners. The difference here
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is that you're able to do it in a more
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natural way. So you don't have to rely
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on those synthetic fragrances. Again,
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you can sort of tailor it to your
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liking. If you want just a light light
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scent, you can go for that. If you don't
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want anything that's just going to be
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overpowerful and cause you to have to
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open up your windows, sometimes those,
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you know, traditional commercial
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cleaners are just too strong. Um or the
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scent is just irritating. So, if you
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have some essential oils that you know
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you love, you love chamomile or you love
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lavender or you love lemongrass or
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something like that, you can add a few
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drops of that to your uh mop water. I
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would just do hot water, a little bit of
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Dawn dish soap, and some essential oils
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and you're ready to go. It's a very mild
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cleaner that is going to work and help
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fragrance your home as you clean. The
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next way to use essential oils as both
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aroma therapy and to help fragrance your
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bathroom is to add a few essential oil
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drops to the corner of your shower when
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you're running your shower. Um, by
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adding it to the corner, you are not
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instantly washing it all away. You're
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giving a chance for the steam to help
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lift up that fragrance and get it into
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the air. It's a great way to just fill
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your bathroom with a beautiful scent. Of
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course, it's temporary. It's only going
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to last for but so long. Um, but it's
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it's very similar to the way a
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humidifier would work, right? You're
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getting sort of that that steamy air
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that's floating around and it's going to
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carry that fragrance for a while. So, if
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you haven't tried it, it's really great
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if you have like sinus issues or you
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have a cold, think about using tea tree
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or eucalyptus. Put a few drops um into
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your shower and it will have this really
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beautiful sort of like mentholy
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experience.
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There's actually one that I love on
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Amazon. I will link it in the
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description box below. It's called
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Breathe, and it's fantastic. I use it in
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my humidifier, which we'll talk about in
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a minute. Um, and I also use it in my
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shower whenever I catch a cold. Next up
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is humidifiers and essential oils. Now,
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most modern humidifiers do have either a
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tray where you can put drops of
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essential oils or a tray where it has a
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little sort of uh foam pad where you're
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intended to put the drops of oils on the
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foam pad and then slide it back into the
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uh device. Um either way, almost all
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newer models do have an essential oil
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option to them. And this is a fantastic
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way to help fragrance your room. Even if
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you are don't necessarily need to add
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moisture to the air, it's a way to sort
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of um have an alternative to a diffuser,
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right? It's basically working the same
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way except that a humidifier is going to
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have a much much larger tank than a
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diffuser ever would. So, you can cover a
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much larger area if you already have a
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humidifier. You don't necessarily also
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need a diffuser to get that fragrance
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into the air with essential oils. Just
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go ahead and use the essential oil tray
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on your diff on your humidifier. And
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last up is a DIY garden spray. Now, this
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is something that I discovered maybe 4
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years ago or so, and I do it every
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single year. When the summer comes
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around, usually late spring, we have
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this huge resurgence of like hornets
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that come around our house. And one of
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the things that really does keep them
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away well is peppermint oil. and
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eucalyptus oil. And so I will add this
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to one of the large um I don't really
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know what you call it. It's a it's one
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of the spray bottles that you attach a
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hose to. And so I will put essential oil
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drops into one of these bottles that's
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just filled with water. Um and then you
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can spray down your bushes and your
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trees and it will help keep uh pests
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away. So depending upon what you're
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trying to repel, right? For me, I know
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that hornets, they don't like the uh
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like the tea tree, eucalyptus,
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they tend to stay away from that. If you
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want to repel like mosquitoes, go for
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like the citroanella oil. You can
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actually spray down maybe the side of
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your house or your whole patio area.
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These are of course temporary solutions,
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right? Because once it rains, you're
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going to have to reapply. But frankly,
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they work really, really well. I love
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using peppermint oil because it just
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makes the whole backyard smell nice and
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minty and sweet for a while. It's also a
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nice thing to do if you are going to
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have like a cookout or have guests out.
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Think about spraying down your area
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before you know folks come and you know
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your backyard will smell amazing and it
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will help keep some of the pests away as
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well. Um cinnamon uh is another option.
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I have never used cinnamon oil to repel
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ants, but the theory behind cinnamon
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repelling ants is that it cuts off the
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scent trail and so they aren't able to
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gather. So, it's not so much that it
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keeps them away. It just um sort of
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makes it harder for them to sort of
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gather into one space and find one
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another to start to create like a little
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colony mount. So, I have found that this
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does work well when I sprinkle cinnamon
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in um my kids like sandbox. I used to do
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that and we never had an issue with ants
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in the sandbox. Despite us having issues
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with fire ants all over the yard, they
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were never in the sandbox. So, um I
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think that cinnamon oil probably will
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work well. Again, it's a temporary
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solution cuz when you're mixing it with
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water and you're spraying it outside,
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once it rains, it's going to be washed
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away and you'll have to reapply. But if
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you want to find a, you know, a chemical
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free option for pest control, give
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essential oils a try in your yard.
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That's it for this video. Those are 10
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ways to use essential oils to fragrance
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your home. I hope you found this
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see you in the next one. Bye.
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