To wonder why any sane person, with a sense of smell..........

[lucyellensmumagain]

would spray air fresheners or have those plug in air freshener things in their house??

they actually STINK! and i dread to think what they are doing to the ozone layer, even the ones without an aeresol - nothing that smells that bad could be a good thing

Oh air fresheners (and especially the advertisements for them) are my pet hate! So many new innovations! Such a pointless horrible product!

Soojie, essential oils on lightbulbs (or in a burner) can be good for making your house smell better.

YANBU - they are revolting and make me sneeze.

If my house needs freshening-up, I wipe the radiators with a few drops of essential oil and turn the heating on.

Shinyandnew, your house sounds most fragrant.

DH shouts at the tele when those adverts come on: 'Clean your house, you stinky git!'

we use the dettol one which has barely a smell to it but i bought a febreeze one for the bathroom as we have no window and the extractor fan is broken (DH is an electrician and it has been broken for over a year now)

i do like a nice candle every now and then though

oh febreeze - vomit!!! I was a vet nurse and a couple of the nurses used to use this to disguise the shit piss and vomit - it was vile vile vile - it makes me want to puke just thinking of it

I bought one of those lavender bloo loo things once. It was quite an off putting shade of purple. Like actually to the point where it made me feel a bit odd using the loo.

I do however like the little bicarb lavender jobbies you can get for the cistern. They make it smell all clean and fresh.

Blimey shiney, its a wonder anyone can BREATHE in your house!!! shake n vac, and bounce are another of my pet hates!!

I tend to use essential oils and oil burners , i go for full on hippy sadlewood and ylang ylang type things - some might argue those are worse than air fresheners but at least they dont smell like they were developed in a nuclear power plant

what is ylang ylang?

YANBU. They are vile. My mum used to have them but I talked her out of them when I stayed at her house and had an asthma attack because she had one of those hideous glade things plugged into the wall in the room I was in. Ugh, ugh, ugh.

oh but my very very very worse smell in the entire world is zoflora disinfectant - my mother uses this and it makes me gag - When DD goes to her house, i have to put her clothes straight in the washing machine because i can smell it - she does it to disguise HER wet dog smell.

ylang ylang is a flower i think, anyway, its an essential oil and very calming dont ya know

because they live with the MNer who put garlic up her bum?

I used to have a burner and got loads of lovely oils (rose, ylang ylang and geranium is my favourite blend) but now I have the candles made in Somerset...I love the gingerbread one and Jasmin.

ach that's a wind up. No one wastes good garlic like that.

garlic up her bum??? have i missed out on some new health craze??

you have candles made? blimey, is your real name Kirsty?? - im jealous

oh yes - forgot geranium, my absolute favourite, never been able to afford rose though.

actually I was going to recommend that she try an anal shower. You know the thing where you kneel on the floor with your bum up, insert a tube anally which is raised up and hung over a shower rail attached to a big 5 litre can of water

Apparently it is very effective. Have yet to try it... My yoga teacher swore by it but amazingly I withstood the temptation

yeah i hate them too and my mother uses them. after the 'puff' she has an asthma attack 2 minutes later. she refuses to make the link though.

Vile. Common. Nasty.

YASNBU

and wasn't it ginger up the bum?

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzeeeeeeen, but WHY?? i fail to see how that is going to make my house smell better without resorting to chemicals!!

Ginger??? thats even worse!!!

you will be making less stink to cover up

Well not immediately, in fact quite the opposite I should think. But you have must see the long term picture here.

Ginger was it?

YANBU. I always wonder about the obsession with giving the house an unnecessary, odd smell. Surely what you'd want is only no bad or stale odours? Open the windows for a few minutes everyday and a blast of fresh air will freshen up the house like no air freshener can.

LEM

Candles made??? No the candles I buy are made in Somerset here and
here!!

I used to buy oils in Glastonbury from here but was never aware that rose absolute was expensive, so either I bought a lot and thought it was all more pricey than it was or it was cheaper then!!

BTW I only burn one occasionally to make a smell not cover one up!!

YANBU

We use a mixture of airing the house and using essential oils (am an aromatherapist). Favourite blends are frankincense & may chang or lavender, black pepper & geranium.

We also mostly use the Method cleaning products. Many of the major brands make me either heave or wheeze