I am not mad into essential oils but last year when we had a bug in the house, and I began to bleach everywhere, I looked into more natural cleaning methods. Most, if not all of these used essential oils.
Here are a few ways they have eased themselves into my life!
** I clean my surfaces with the all purpose cleaner which I wrote about here. It is so easy to make up and lasts a good while if you keep it in a glass spray bottle. (I used an old olive oil bottle which I bought and rinsed out…I transferred a spray top which I had.)
** I put a cotton wool ball, with some lemon or orange oil dropped onto it, into my hoover bag which gives you an amazing smell while you clean and leaves a lingering lemony smell in the rooms for a good while after.
** You can make gorgeous soap, perfect for yourself or to give as gifts like we did for our teachers at Christmas.
** At bedtime the girls will often ask for this ‘sleepy oil’ as they call it, a little bedtime foot rub!
** I put a drop of lavender in my mascara when it’s new….stir it around and it is meant to kill the wee mites that live on your eyelashes (who knew!!?!) and make them thicker.
I did not know that mascara tip! Thank you !!