How to refresh the air in the apartment?

Any home is a whole world, living according to special laws, in its own rhythm, filled with its own special smells. The house is the imprint of a person’s soul, and the smell is his character. But not all the smells in our home are pleasant. Therefore, it is important to know how to refresh the air in the apartment, so that being there was easy and pleasant.

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Simple ways to freshen the air in the apartment

Cleanliness is the key to health, and a pleasant smell in the house is a good mood.

House cleaning

The cause of household odors can be a bin, a refrigerator with stale foods, plumbing, and simply accumulated dust. In order to get rid of them and refresh the air in the apartment, it is necessary to eliminate its sources.

To do this, you just need to organize the cleaning process correctly:

1. Take out the trash regularly and rinse the bin with soda or vinegar.
2. Try wet cleaning as often as possible. Pay particular attention to corners, bookshelves, chandeliers, window sills, batteries. It is in these places that the largest amount of dust accumulates, which can emit unpleasant odors, cause allergies and asthma.

Important! During wet cleaning, you can add a few drops of natural apple cider vinegar, essential oils - citrus, coniferous to the water. So you not only remove the unpleasant amber, but also fill your house with pleasant aromas.

3. Often, unpleasant odors accumulate in carpets, upholstery, curtains. Therefore:
   • It is recommended to wash the curtains every three months or periodically shake the dust out of them.
   • From carpets and upholstered furniture dust will help to collect the vacuum cleaner. Do not forget to clean the vacuum cleaner after every cleaning.
   • During operation of this appliance an unpleasant odor also appears. To avoid it, before cleaning, put a cotton ball or a piece of bandage soaked in essential oil in the dust collector.
4. If your carpet smells bad, sprinkle it with plenty of soda. Leave for a few hours, but better - at night. Then vacuum thoroughly - this will help get rid of pungent odors.

Kitchen cleaning

Our kitchen does not always meet us with delicious smells. And if it was here that you had to face a similar situation to refresh the air in the apartment, do such a job.

Step 1

First of all, check the contents of the refrigerator:

• Get rid of expired products.
• Make sure that the lids of all containers fit snugly.
• Store different food groups on separate shelves.
• Wash the inside of the refrigerator with soda once a week. If the smell still persists, you can pour soda or activated carbon into the saucer - these adsorbents perfectly absorb odors.

Step 2

The source of unpleasant odor may be the sink:

1. Pour ½ packs of dry soda into the drain hole, pour ½ cup vinegar.
2. Close the drain with a rag and leave for 30 minutes.
3. As time passes, rinse the drain with boiling water - this will help eliminate blockage and unpleasant odors.

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How to refresh the air in the apartment with natural products?

Are you an opponent of using chemistry in everyday life? Are you annoyed by the harsh, artificial smells of synthetic aerosols? Then we will explain how and how to refresh the air with the help of natural products.

Spice

To get rid of unpleasant odors, take a couple of spoons of your favorite spices and warm them in the oven or microwave. An appetizing smell spread throughout the apartment. To achieve the same effect, boil water with cinnamon for 10 minutes. The aroma of cinnamon will help not only to freshen the air in your apartment, but also will repel annoying mosquitoes.

Important! If you have a cinnamon stick in your home, put it in a vase and periodically sprinkle warm water on it. A pleasant aroma is guaranteed.

Coffee

Remember how in the morning we are excited by the smell of coffee. Its delicate aroma penetrates all corners of consciousness. Pour freshly ground coffee into shallow open containers and place throughout the apartment. When the aroma begins to erode, roast the coffee again and put it back into place. In such a simple and enjoyable way, you can refresh the air in the apartment for a long time.

Citrus

The smell of tangerines, lemons and oranges evokes pleasant memories of childhood, a holiday. And these same fruits will help you easily cope with the task than refresh the air in the apartment. For this:

1. Mix the freshly squeezed juice of any citrus fruit with water and soda. Then spray the entire apartment with a spray gun.
2. Finely chop the lemon or orange, arrange in saucers throughout the apartment. This is an indispensable way to quickly refresh the atmosphere.
3. Boiling a citrus zest in water for 10 minutes will help to achieve a persistent aroma in the apartment.

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The use of natural flavors in everyday life

We constantly wonder how to refresh the air in the apartment. Of great interest to followers of oriental culture is aromatherapy, the healing effects of which many have already managed to evaluate in their experience. It is suitable in order to make the air in the house more pleasant.

How to freshen the air with essential oils?

The most suitable are citrus oils - lemon, orange, bergamot, lemon verbena and tea tree oil, eucalyptus, anise, fir, spruce, lavender. These oils are used individually or aromatic mixtures are made from them. Also, cotton balls are impregnated with mixtures, which are laid out throughout the apartment.

Important! Aroma lamps will look beautiful and sophisticated. They will not only add comfort to your interior, but also help to make the air in your apartment fragrant. Pour a little water into the lamp container, add the oil or mixture that you like and light the candle.

Fragrant Sachets

Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, knowing about the beneficial properties of herbs, collected and dried them. Healing infusions from all sorts of ailments were prepared from them, seeds and leaves were added to food, and bundles of dried flowers were hung in the corners and near the stove to make breathing easier in the house.

Stylish decoration of your apartment will be sachets that can be filled with herbs:

1. Fill a small bag of thin natural fabric:
   • dried herbs - thyme, mint, St. John's wort, lavender, juniper, sage;
   • pieces of dried fruit and berries - apples, barberry, rose hips, currants, lemon;
   • spices - anise, cloves, pink pepper, thyme, cardamom, tarragon;
   • flower petals - rose, iris, jasmine, marigolds, chrysanthemums.
2. Lay the bags on shelves, coffee tables, you can hide between the sofa cushions.
3. When the aroma begins to weaken, you can add a few drops of essential oils or replace the mixture with a fresh one.

Important! If you want to eliminate the musty smell in your cabinets, place linen bags filled with lavender and jasmine between things. This will give a light aroma to the contents of the cabinet and scare away moles from your belongings.

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How else to refresh the air in the house?

Urbanization and industrialization have led to the fact that around us there is less and less wildlife and more and more “stone jungle”. Therefore, in our apartment we want to breathe clean air and see more of the natural. We can achieve this in the simplest way - to fill our house with living plants:

1. In the kitchen, be sure to put pots of chlorophytum. This unpretentious beautiful plant will not only delight your eye, but also absorb the products of gas combustion, while generating oxygen.
2. Mandatory flower for the bedroom and living room - geranium. Most microbes do not withstand the neighborhood of geraniums, dying from the bactericidal substances it produces. And in the warm season, geranium left on the windowsill will scare away insects.
3. Aloe is famous for its antibacterial properties. This flower is ideal for bedrooms, because it differs from other flowers in that it emits the greatest amount of oxygen at night.
4. An indispensable plant for urban apartments is asparagus. It destroys harmful bacteria and absorbs heavy metals. It also has a beneficial effect on the functioning of our lungs.
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Japanese writer Isuna Hasekura said: “Do you know what remains in your memory the longest? Smell. You know, the smells are remembered the longest. We so easily forget everything that we saw and heard, and only the aromas remain in our memory quite distinctly. ”

So let's make our homes cozy, comfortable and filled with pleasant aromas.