It’s that time of the year when the germs start to proliferate and settle in homes all over the place!!! My kids have been sick this week. I have been trying really hard to not catch their cooties and so far I have been successful!! Knock on wood! But it’s only October and we have a long germy season ahead of us! It is going to be a long road naturally pumping up our immune systems.
The weather has allowed us to let some fresh air in this week which unfortunately won’t be happening for long. The sneezing and coughing is filling the air in our house with lots of nasty germs. So to help fight the germs flying around in our house I made two natural, non-toxic, disinfecting air sanitizers this morning.
I went on a hunt in my cupboards for some empty spray bottles. I was successful! I only had to rinse the colored water out of one of them. You can find cheap spray bottles at beauty supply stores, dollar stores and Target to name a few.
I filled them both up with our Reverse Osmosis water. If you don’t have filtered water you can purchase distilled or purified water. I used about 1 1/2 to 2 cups of water.
I went through my stash of essential oils and chose those that are known for their anti-bacterial, antiseptic and disinfectant qualities.
For the first bottle I added
20 drops sandalwood oil (antiseptic properties)
20 drops patchouli oil (antiseptic and anti-bacterial properties)
20 drops lavender oil (antiseptic, anti-bacterial and disinfectant properties)
20 drops orange oil (antiseptic and disinfectant properties)
Shake it up and spray it around!! Don’t spray at people or too close to fabric as the oil may stain. Mist high into the air.
We used this good smelling, germ fighting, air cleaner/sanitizer in the bedrooms.
To the second bottle I added
20 drops Eucalyptus oil (antiseptic, anti-bacterial and disinfectant properties)
20 drops tee tree oil (anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-microbial…pretty much anti everything!)
20 drops lavender oil (see above)
20 drops lemon oil (same as orange oil)
20 drops orange oil (see above)
Again, shake it up and spray, spray, spray those germs away!! We sprayed this in the kitchen and the bathrooms.
These make the perfect, SAFE, non-toxic addition to your fight against both seasonal, swine flu (H1N1) and other viral infections. These essential oils are proven natural germ fighters! Safe because you can let you kids spray these around and help kill germs with out worrying about what harsh and poisonous chemicals they are coming in contact with.
Just another safe way to keep us healthy!!
I’m printing this out– thanks!!!
Fantastic! I want to smell them!
I’ll bet your house smelled amazing after Ginger was done spraying!
Hope your gang is feeling better now. Germs don’t stand a chance in your house with those fantastic concoctions!
Stay healthy!
this is great! i bet it smells marvelous. in the first recipe, what is the 4th ingredient? (it just says 20 drops).
tea tree oil is my favorite anti-everything!
For those of us who have no essential oils in our cupboards, could we get by with buying just one or two for a spray mixture?
Anastasia
I would recommend tea tree oil for sure and lavender. If not lavender than orange. Good luck!
Beth–mine too!!! A friend and I were recently talking about how people’s houses have their own scent and she said our house definitely smells like tea tree!
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I bet these smell heavenly. I love EO and can’t have enough of them in my home. I’m going to make these and start to make the house smell yummy.
I love this … I’m hoping you’ll pop over to my blog today and post this on Friday’s Nature Table… I’m sure others will be happy to learn your recipe.
Blessings and magic.
I love making these sprays! Thank you for sharing your recipes, I will definitely try them!
Thank you for this wonderful inspiration. I can almost smell your magic potions!
Hi,
I write an article for my local paper and would love to include your hand sanitizer lotion and spray in an upcoming article. i will iove credit to you and your blog. Would that be okay with you?
Warmest Regards,
Beth Engelman
beth@engelmanriggs.com
I was wondering if the second bottle can be used on fabrics like children’s toys and if so, how long until i can give it back to the child to use?
Jyoti–I think you might want to be careful spraying this directly on fabric as these are oils and they may stain. As far as children’s toys, once sprayed you could dry them off with a rag or just wipe them down with some of these oils in your wash bucket. I don’t think you would want to give toys to kids that were still wet or dripping with this spray. Hope that helps! Kristen
You’ve been featured with this post in this week’s Fantastic Friday! Thanks for giving the world some great home-health remedies!
Here is the blurp about your post: http://quirkymomma.com/2010/cold-and-flu-remedy/