How To Make A Disinfectant For Your Home With Essential Oils?

Do you want to know why it is important to keep your house clean and why using a disinfectant is so important?

If we were to calculate how many hours we spend inside our house, we would be surprised. In some cases for good and in others perhaps for not so good.

The home, the house where we live, becomes our own ecosystem, a space that we have to take care of so that bacteria, germs and viruses cannot make us sick.

The key to having a clean house also resides in ourselves. Because if we do not have good personal and personal hygiene, we may be the carriers of these bacteria tomorrow.

Currently, people are more aware of not using industrial detergents or fabric softeners that are not very ecological for the planet. The same happens with the large number of aerosols or sprays that we use to clean the home.

In addition, the abuse of very strong products to eliminate all living microorganisms from our house can make us suffer some type of allergy in the long run, having created a too aseptic home.

In this article we want to propose to you which are the best natural disinfectants that we can make ourselves with healthy products and that will not endanger our health.

They are products made from essential oils, so we recommend using them regularly.

Essential oil-based disinfectants

We want you to know how to make your own homemade disinfectant and to know how to use it correctly so that it is effective and powerful in your home.

Take note of the following tips:

How to use the natural disinfectant:

• One of the simplest and most common ways of all is to use them as an essential oil burner.
• You can add drops of this disinfectant to clothing or a handkerchief that you are going to use. You will breathe it in and it will be beneficial.

• You can add a few drops on a lit light bulb.
• You can add them to the water that you are going to use to scrub the floor or to clean the windows.
• Make sure that the mixture you make does not stain clothes or surfaces. Natural products have dyes that can stain without us knowing.
• Try to select organic plants.
• Store the preparation in a spray container and shake it with each use.
• You can use both distilled water and tap water.

If you want to increase the antiseptic properties of the water that you usually use to clean your home, you can cook herbs such as lavender, eucalyptus, mint or cloves, and then add this infusion to your washing water.

Make your own essential oil-based disinfectant:

Among the essential oils that we highlight for this purpose are:

• Eucalyptus and cloves.
• Tea tree.
• Lavender and bergamot.

• Juniper.
• Thyme and rosemary.

They are combinations of scents and herbs that are very well with each other, since they combine their benefits and medicinal properties and turn them into important natural products.

You can combine more than one, as it will always depend on the taste and smell of each one.

1.- Lavender and tea tree

Using your spray diffuser bottle, fill 1/4 of the contents in equal parts with tea tree and lavender essential oil. The rest fill it with water. Don’t forget to always shake it before each use.

2.- Rosemary purifier

Essential oils concentrate within them the properties of the herbs from which they are made. In this case, mix a tablespoon of rosemary oil with 2 glasses of water.

With this small gesture you will get  a natural disinfectant that will help purify the air and make us feel in a better mood, since rosemary tends to improve our mood.

3.- Thyme disinfectant

Like rosemary, they are herbs widely used in cooking. Now we can give it another very beneficial use.

This preparation is a bit more complex than the previous ones.

• Boil half a liter of water in a pot, add the  fresh or dried thyme, a little vinegar and a splash of liquid castile soap.
• Cook for 1 hour over medium-low heat and cover. Let cool and strain the mixture.
• Pour the preparation into the spray container and you will have it ready to use.

Contraindications

Although the products we make at home are natural, we always have to bear in mind that misuse can lead to some inconvenience or health problems.

In this case, we will generally not have problems with essential oils; however, pregnant women and young children need to pay extra attention,  as they can be irritating products.

For this reason, we recommend using tea tree and lavender almost always if you have doubts, since they are very safe products.

As you can see, it is very easy to prepare your own natural disinfectant at home based on essential oils and water. You will get a very clean home without danger of infections.  What are you waiting for to prepare yours?