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Fall Carpet Freshener with Essential Oils

August 21, 2017 By Lisa Sharp 9 Comments

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Is your carpet smelling less than fresh? Freshen your carpet and leave your whole house smelling great with this fall scented carpet freshener. 

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Even if your home is clean it can sometimes not smell the best. Things like carpet can hold onto odors, especially with pets. Using carpet freshener when vacuuming can help but most contain harmful chemicals like synthetic fragrance.

Synthetic fragrances can be endocrine disruptors and aren’t something you really want your family coming in contact with frequently. Since we often lay on the carpet and walk barefoot on it those harmful chemicals can end up on our skin.

Making your own is a cheap and safe alternative. It also gives you the freedom to choose whatever scent you’d like. I like to change mine up seasonally.

During the fall months, I really like to use cinnamon, clove, and orange. It creates a warm and inviting scent that screams fall as you vacuum.

Just like most conventional carpet fresheners this is simply sprinkled on the carpet, let to sit for awhile, and then you vacuum it up. Doesn’t get much easier than that.

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How to Make Fall Scented Carpet Freshener



Ingredients

  • 2 cups of baking soda
  • 10 drops cinnamon essential oil
  • 20 drops orange essential oil
  • 5 drops clove essential oil
  • 1 glass jar with metal lid with holes
  • 1 metal with no holes

Directions

  1. To add holes to your jar lid, carefully use a hammer and nail to poke holes. This step is optional, you can just sprinkle carefully without a lid.
  2. Pour the baking soda into your jar.
  3. Add essential oils and shake well.
  4. To use sprinkle over the carpet, allow to sit for at least 15 minutes, and vacuum normally.

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Sometimes I also add a bay leaf to the carpet freshener. It leaves a nice smell and many insects dislike the smell so that’s a bonus. You can add more or less of the essential oils to fit your preference.

If you don’t have cinnamon essential oils you can use ground cinnamon. Just be careful using it on a light colored carpet, it can stain.

It’s a lot of fun to play around with scents for this carpet freshener. Lavender is a nice choice for bedrooms and I love to use peppermint during the holidays. The options are endless.

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Comments

  1. robbie @ GOING GREEN MAMA

    October 16, 2014 at 9:48 am

    I love the fall scents. Hadn’t thought about adding bay leaf to it though… Hmmm..

    Reply
    • Lisa Sharp

      October 16, 2014 at 3:07 pm

      I started doing that when the neighbor’s house was empty for a long time and then the sprayed it. We saw one roach after and to prevent all of them coming over we found that they hate bay leaves. I liked the smell so kept it. 🙂 Plus a lot of bugs don’t like them so figure it can’t hurt.

      Reply
  2. Erin B.

    August 31, 2016 at 12:17 pm

    Just mixed this up and it smells just amazing. Can’t wait to try it out on my rugs. I halved the recipe because I have no carpet in my home, just a couple of area rugs. I did not have any cinnamon EO, so I used about 1/2 tsp. of ground cinnamon instead. I have three dogs so hair and odors can take over sometimes, so I’m really looking forward to freshening up my rugs with this. Thanks for the post!

    Reply
  3. joanna lacey

    September 1, 2017 at 4:41 am

    I love the idea of changing it up for the seasons, so much fun and all natural.

    Reply
    • Lisa Sharp

      September 4, 2017 at 10:04 am

      Glad you liked it.

      Reply
  4. Chrissy

    March 29, 2019 at 5:37 pm

    Is it safe for pets?

    Reply
    • Lisa Sharp

      March 29, 2019 at 5:54 pm

      It should be after vacuumed but you may want to double check the essential oils, especially with cats which are even more sensitive. You can switch the essential oils if any aren’t safe for your pet.

      Reply
  5. Dianne

    September 17, 2020 at 7:18 am

    Can you use the ground spices of cinnamon and cloves instead of EO?

    Reply
    • Lisa Sharp

      September 18, 2020 at 11:16 am

      You can but I’d be very careful on light-colored carpet as it could stain.

      Reply

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