Making a room spray with essential oils

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Stupid question I reckon but hey ho

Can you literally mix water and essential oil to make a room spray?

Ylang Ylang if it helps!

I use water mixed with lavendar and ylang ylang, about 10 drops each and it smells fab!

Thank you!

Now....where do I buy Ylang Ylang from?!

:o

Some folks use a small amount of vodka or meths. Don't know if it matters much.

Kim and Aggie say use Vodka. It evaporates very quickly, and doesn't stain.

You can mix essential oils in water but it does not properly dissolve, so if it comes in contact with certain surfaces, eg. plastic, it can do damage. Also, do not leave the mix in a plastic bottle/container as it will literally erode the plastic and then you are spraying plastic in your room and ultimately your sprayer will start leaking (so empty plastic bottle after each use). To prevent this or reduce the risk of this happening dissolve 10-20 drops of essential oil in vodka and then mix with water. If using oils in bath first mix with a little milk or water, otherwise they won't dissolve and if coming in touch with your skin you can literally burn yourself (don't use in baths for children, essential oils are much to harsh for their sensitive skin). You can get very high quality oils on line from Butterbur and Sage, but do check there are quite a few oils totally unsuitable for use in baths/skin contact (such as thyme oil) and even in room sprayers some oils should be used very sparingly. Essential oils are very powerful and can do real harm.

Also, quite a few oils will stain if coming into contact with fabrics, especially many of the thicker oils, such as rose and yasmine absolutes.

I tend to put a few drops into a bowl of boiling water, carry it around the house and then tip the water away before the children drop it on themselves. It works really well. You can also get fittings that you put on light bulbs so the heat of the bulb causes the oil to evaporate.

I wouldnt use any essential oils with anything as there so dangerous. better to mix some lemon juice with water.

You can easily create a lemon-scented spray that freshens the air and absorbs odors. Make this natural air freshener by dissolving half a cup of baking soda into two cups of very hot water. Once the baking soda is thoroughly dissolved, add one quarter cup of lemon juice, and pour into a misting spray bottle.

Read more: Natural Air Freshener Recipes | eHow.com www.ehow.com/way_5179711_natural-air-freshener-recipes.html#ixzz1GrCZD77D

The essential oils contain thousands of components: they are very effective but also very dangerous. Some aromatic components can be dangerous, noxious, allergenic, teratogenic or carcinogenic.

TBH I think the best and cheapest and safest air freshener is to open all windows once everybody else has gone to school/work for 30 mins - 1 hour. I do it every day, and it always works.

Why do you need a room spray? Why not just evaporate them in an oil burner? Much easier.

Ylang ylang is quite strong - nice smell but lots of people get headaches from it so only use 1 drop at a time. Lavender needs about 7 drops to every 1 of ylang ylang.

Or if you want the perfect natural air freshener and odour neutraliser, I highly recommend this stuff - it can knock out the stench from DH's farts (utterly toxic) in seconds. The pink one is bloody good too and contains geranium, so is a bit more floral. I don't know about the other two, haven't tried them - but these two are so effective that I imagine the others will be as well.

They last a pretty long time too.

Thanks all, oil burner not an option unless it doesn't involve candles :o

Absolutely love the smell but have no.way if smelling it :o

you can get electric oil burners/vaporisers - look here for a list of websites so that would be safer than candles (why not candles? Elf'n'safety ishoos?)