Effective ways to get rid of unpleasant odors in cabinets

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Increasingly, in organizing our everyday life, we think about the naturalness of the things and products we use. We are increasingly reading the ingredients on labels and moving towards conscious consumption.

This applies not only to separate waste collection and shopping without unnecessary packaging, but also to the maximum possible use of things. Today, the exchange of unnecessary but very useful things between people is becoming increasingly popular. For example, Olga Zhuravleva’s online second-hand store on the website Ozhur.ru helps very quickly find new owners for items. Food changing services and sales of leftover restaurant dishes are gaining popularity.

In addition, natural products are becoming increasingly popular, both for food consumption and for cosmetics and household chemicals.

To add the desired scent to your favorite items, you can use both fabric softeners and natural products. To do this, you can simply add a little of your favorite oil when washing or by placing special sachets with the desired aroma in the closet where your laundry is stored.

METHOD 1. AROMATIC SACHETS

One of the most popular options, but many of its disadvantages include the fragility of the sachets and the need for their frequent replacement.

Similar sachets can be bought in stores - they can contain either dry aromatic herbs and flavoring, or simply synthetic flavoring. If you prefer natural scents, you can sew the sachet yourself, especially since in this case you can make a bouquet of scents with your own hands.

Read about how to sew and what to fill such a sachet in our step-by-step master class:

Ways to eliminate unpleasant odor

The following will help troubleshoot the problem:

• complete audit of shelves;
• ventilation;
• wet cleaning with vinegar, chlorine or commercial disinfectants;
• use of flavors, silica gel.

Odor eliminators

If home remedies to eliminate the odor do not help, use Whiteness. Thanks to the presence of chlorine, you will quickly get rid of the smell by eliminating the root cause. Sidolux M has a similar effect; it costs about 200 rubles.

Polish will help get rid of the smell

If it smells musty, wipe down the shelves with Pronto polish after cleaning. The product removes remaining dust and dirt and leaves a pleasant aroma for a long time. Price 200–250 rub.

To maintain freshness, place odor absorbers Freshener, Wäschedeo Frühlings-Moment between the laundry. Sachet price from 100 to 300 rubles.

How to eliminate unpleasant odor

If after washing the junk still stinks, use fragrances and home remedies. High effectiveness of aroma sachet is achieved in parallel with the use of soda or salt.

Home methods

To solve the problem of unpleasant odor, use folk remedies that are always at hand:

1. Salt. Pour into cups and place in corners. Once the salt has absorbed everything, replace it with fresh salt. The hardening of the salt will indicate that it is time to change the containers.
2. Soda. Follow this method according to the same principle as with salt.
3. Vinegar. Acid removes dirt well, removes the smell of mustiness and dampness. After surface treatment, a pungent aroma sometimes remains, but it quickly disappears.
4. Silica gel. Place the bags in the corners of the shelves.
5. Coffee beans, cinnamon and cloves. They absorb any aroma well. Choose one of the suggested ones and put them in fabric bags, then place them in the chest of drawers.
6. Essential oils. Place a few drops of oil on a napkin, let dry and place around the perimeter of the shelves.
7. Empty perfume bottles can create a pleasant smell. Place perfume bottles between piles of clothes.

METHOD 2. ESSENTIAL OILS

The healing properties of essential oils have been known since ancient times, because each scent has its own effect on our nervous system and health in general. If you have your favorite essential oil scents, it would be a shame not to use them to scent things in your closet. There are several recipes for this:

1. Apply 5-7 drops of your favorite essential oil (or mixture of oils) to a cotton ball and place it in a plastic bag with small holes. Place several of these bags in linen drawers and closets with clothes.

2. You can also use a spray bottle by pouring clean water into it and adding essential oils at the rate of 15-30 drops per 1 liter of water. Then spray this mixture onto your linens or clothes if you are sure that no marks will remain on the fabrics. It is better not to spray this mixture on delicate fabrics, such as silk. If in doubt, it is better to spray it on the cabinet walls.

3. To scent linen and clothes, you can use an alcohol mixture: add 6-8 drops of essential oil to 10 ml of alcohol. Pour the resulting mixture into a stable bottle and place it, without closing the lid, in the corner of the cabinet so that it does not tip over (therefore, it is better to choose square bottles that will fit well in the corner).

Do-it-yourself sachet or how to create comfort in your home and preserve summer memories

Almost everyone, without exception, wants to be in constant summer, enjoy all the delights of summer and take everything that this time gives us. Unfortunately or fortunately, we have 4 seasons. Each of which, without a doubt, is beautiful in its own way, but it is summer that we dream about and remember with special trepidation. In order to preserve a piece of summer and indulge in memories of it on cold winter evenings, we will make an aromatic sachet.

Sachets are small bags or pads made of natural fabric and filled with aromatic contents. What filler do you use for the sachet? These can be dried fruits, flowers, herbs, roots, cinnamon sticks, vanilla pods, clove stars, pine needles and anything else that can delight you with its natural aroma. Also, when making an aromatic sachet, sawdust, rice and sea salt are used as filling. The backfill is pre-impregnated with essential oils, the fragrance of which is felt for a long time. The fabric for the aroma sachet is chosen from natural raw materials that “breathe”; it can be cambric, cotton, silk, linen, or organza.

A sachet can not only give a pleasant smell to a room, aromatize clothes and bedding, but also, depending on the contents, have a beneficial effect on a person, his state of mind and mood, and also create a certain atmosphere in the room. As you know, many smells can have a colossal effect on the brain: encourage something, refresh memories, emotions, state of mind, mood.

There are also some contraindications when using aromatic sachets. It is important to remember that pollen is an allergen. You should not place sachets in children's rooms, near the child's sleeping place, as young children may have allergic reactions to pollen and odors. And also adults suffering from allergies (allergic rhinitis) should not use sachet.

An aromatic sachet in a car is a necessary thing. The scent of the aroma will help the driver maintain concentration on the road, vigor and well-being on a long trip. Sasha is an excellent alternative to the “stinky Christmas trees” in the car interior, which are made from an unknown chemical composition. Also, to scent a room, it is better to use aromatic oils or flower-herbal sachets instead of an air freshener.

Tip: over time, the aroma from herbs fades; it can always be replenished by dropping a few drops of aroma oil onto the contents of the sachet.

In order to create a peaceful atmosphere of calm in the room, to overcome insomnia, stress and melancholy, use a mixture of lavender, oregano, lemon balm, rose petals, bergamot, mint leaves, chamomile, rosemary and pine needles as backfill.

To increase performance, brain activity and lift your mood, invigorating aromas of mint, the smell of citrus, cardamom, cinnamon, lemon balm, rosemary, wormwood, sage, cloves and pine needles are well suited.

To create a romantic atmosphere, sachets are filled with dried bergamot peels, lavender flowers, rose petals, rosemary, cloves, basil, ginger, chamomile, yarrow and violet roots.

Of course, not all scents are compatible with each other, and it is also not necessary to mix all the recommended flowers and herbs together. The composition for a given case may be the same, but its effect is determined by the proportion of all components of the aromatic sachet. Also, the aroma should be unobtrusive and subtle. I will give below simple and common recipes for preparing aroma sachet filler. Recipe for “Calmness and Tranquility.” Well suited for a bedroom and a relaxing area. Take lavender flowers, chamomile, sage leaves and inflorescences, dill seeds and gum resin (myrrh). Lavender will make up most of the filling for the sachet; we will use it as a basis. Divide your amount of lavender into five equal parts. Next, we will take each component of the backfill in an amount that will correspond to the amount of one part of lavender. Next, add three parts of chamomile. We take sage leaves and inflorescences, as well as dill seeds, one part at a time. All that remains is to add a piece or crushed gum resin (myrrh).

If you suffer from insomnia and have trouble sleeping, then for sound sleep you need seven herbs according to the “Good Sleep” recipe. Contains: lavender, lemon balm, chamomile, oregano and rose petals. By analogy with the first recipe, we make up the proportion. In this recipe, lavender makes up the largest part, we divide it into three parts, and take the remaining components of the mixture in equal quantities, one part at a time.

Recipe "Love and Romance". For the filler we will prepare rose petals, jasmine and gardenia flowers, we will also need violet root. In this recipe, most of the rose petals will be used. As described above, we make up the proportion as follows. Take the rose petals and divide them into five parts. Jasmine and gardenia flowers in three parts. Then add one part of dried orris root.

So, having decided on the composition of the sachet filling, let’s start making it. Making a sachet with your own hands will not be difficult for those who have at least once held a needle and thread in their hands. For work we will need the following materials:

— Fabric on a natural basis; — Needle, pins and floss threads; — Scissors, ruler and chalk.

For decoration we will need:

— Acrylic paints for fabric and a thin brush; — Cardboard, paper, pencil, stationery knife; — A pair of hands and a must-have imagination