Try adding Tea Tree to you recipes from blog post 1 as it has many uses, below are just a few of them.
A great combination is lemon, grapefruit, and rosemary essential oils. Use roughly 10 drops of each, but feel free to play around with the recipe until you get the scent you want. This combination smells like springtime. Use this on anything that would need glass cleaner, so mirrors, microwave, or just anything with a glass surface.
Soft Scrub Recipe
- 1/2 cup of baking soda
- 6 drops of Lemon essential oil
- 3 drops rosemary essential oil
- 1 to 2 TBS OnGuard concentrate cleaner
Directions
In a glass bowl, mix together baking soda, EOs and enough OG concentrate to create a thick frosting like consistency.
Use immediately.
Check out the recipes below for some more ideas to use purify in.
Purify is an essential oil blend that has a fresh, clean aroma. It is a combination of lemon, Siberian fir, citronella, lime, tea tree, and cilantro. This is one that’s good to add to your dryer balls to give your laundry that clean fresh smell out of the dryer. You can also use it to freshen up stinky shoes. Use this to scrub out your sinks, around your toilet, and your bath/shower. You might actually enjoy cleaning more once you start using the essential oils.
Toilet bomb is another product you can make with essential oils to clean the inside of your toilet.
If your toilet bowl needs a little extra TLC, use the recipe below.
Add a scoop of baking soda to your toilet bowl, pour in some white vinegar, and then add any of the essential oils I have mentioned above. Then you just scrub the inside of your toilet bowl and it will be sparkly clean once you are done.
Can you clean carpet with essential oils?
ABSOLUTELY!
Let’s make a carpet refresher!
Mix together some baking soda with 10 drops of your favourite essential oils. I recommend Citrus Bliss.
Citrus Bliss is another doTERRA essential oil blend with seven different essential oils including wild orange, lemon, grapefruit, mandarin, bergamot, tangerine, clementine, and vanilla absolute. Sprinkle this mix on your carpet, let it deodorise, and then vacuum it up. Your house will smell amazing!
Check out all the delicious ways you can use Citrus Bliss…
How to Clean Your Wood With Essential Oils?
Make your wood look as good as new with this simple olive oil and essential oil wood polish recipe.
Wood Polish Ingredients
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup white vinegar
- 5 drops lemon essential oil
- 5 drops cedarwood or eucalyptus essential oil
Directions
Mix ingredients into a 16 oz glass spray bottle and start polishing.
What about laundry detergent?
doTERRA Green Laundry Detergent
Think about it, the chemicals you use to wash your clothes are in constant contact with your skin. Would you like a toxin-free natural laundry detergent that actually works? OnGuard 6x concentrated laundry detergent is free of sulfates, phosphates, chlorine, and bleach. It also works better than many leading brands and is cost effective at only 38 cents a load!
In abundance, with hope and blessings
Tracey
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