All Natural Cleaning Tips with Aromatherapy

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Unfortunately, we tend to make messes where ever we are. Thus a fair amount of time and effort needs to be spent cleaning up after ourselves on a regular basis. That has been the necessary but pretty unglamorous job that has traditionally fallen to wives and mothers. In recent years a few more husbands and fathers have been getting into the cleaning routine, as more and more wives and mothers are pursuing their own careers outside the home.

Cleaning in the past relied on some very harsh chemicals, which were regularly used to eradicate germs, dirt and odors.  Today younger generations are becoming more and more concerned about the toxicity of some of these harsh chemicals and their affect on our families and the environment in which we all live.  They have increasingly sought out all natural cleaning mixtures and supplies.

Today many more modern-day households use nothing but ‘green’ cleaning products. These are products that are made from natural ingredients that are safe for use around kids and pets and are also biodegradable and harmless to the environment. Increasingly, households have quit buying cleaning products that contain harsh chemicals altogether.

Some households have started to make their own cleaning products using natural ingredients using recipes like baking soda and vinegar. While it is true that almost every household cleaning job can be accomplished by using one or the other of these natural products, there isn’t a nice clean scent left behind once the cleaning task has been accomplished.  That’s a trick the commercial cleaners learned some time ago.

Many of the scents of the essential oils are used in commercial cleaning products. They are what give the products the nice clean smells of pine and lemon for example. Once households that are committed to living a green lifestyle discover these essential oils and apply them to their homemade natural cleaning products, they never look back.

Here’s some natural cleaning tips. You don’t have to give up nice clean smells when you switch to natural cleaning products. You can enhance the cleaning and disinfecting properties of natural cleaning products by adding essential oils to them and get that nice clean smell as a bonus.

Tea Tree oil is a good example. Tea tree oil has a medicinal scent that is sharp and practically screams clean AND disinfected. Add just a few drops to that vinegar/water spray that you use to clean the bathroom. Tea Tree oil is a natural disinfectant.  It will kill germs in your bathroom and leave a nice clean scent behind.

Eucalyptus is another essential oil that is also a disinfectant. Adding a few drops to your laundry will kill dust mites in sheets and pillowcases and leave behind a nice clean scent as well.

The essential oils of lemon, orange and pine all have natural cleaning properties. Just add a few drops of orange or lemon to a little olive oil and you will have a furniture cleaner that is next to none. And you will have a nice clean scent to boot. Pine essential oil is another of the natural cleaning oils that can be added to water and be used to wash floors and other surfaces. The scent will be wonderful and you get added cleaning and disinfecting as well.

You want to be environmentally sensitive and careful to use products that are natural and safe to use around kids and pets.  That doesn’t mean that you have to deny yourself the pleasure of clean aromas. Spice up that vinegar and baking soda and get a double whammy of cleanliness and aroma.