Make your home smell divine without any nasty chemicals by following our simple tutorial to make your own room spray. DIY room sprays are affordable to make and there are so many essential oils and ready-made oil blends you can use to fragrance these. We love making a zesty and uplifting room spray for the warmer months, and a grounding and earthy room spray to use through winter.
Keep scrolling for our quick and easy guide on how to make DIY room spray with essential oils. It’s a wonderful and cheap gift idea that you can personalise with a custom fragrance or bottle packaging. You can also use this tutorial to make a monster room spray for children who have trouble going to sleep.
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Items you will need:
- Spray bottles (we got ours from Eco Modern Essentials but otherwise you may have some small spray bottles around the home you could repurpose?)
- Measuring cup
- Small funnel or pouring jug (optional but it makes life easier)
- 1/2 cup water (distilled or purified is best)
- 1/2 cup witch hazel (or rubbing alcohol or vodka)
- 20 drops essential oil (you could use a pre-mixed blend or make your own — see below for some of our favourite blends)
Steps:
1. Decide on the type of room spray you want to make — relaxing or energising, grounding or uplifting — and create an oil blend to achieve that. You can find pre-mixed blends that already do this for you and we love calm and destress, energy blend, clarity and focus, and anxiety blend. You also can’t go wrong with a single fragrance like lavender oil.
Alternatively, you could mix together your own personalised scent and we share our favourite room oil blends below.
2. Place a funnel in your open spray bottle and carefully pour in your water, witch hazel (or alcohol), and add 20 drops of your essential oil blend. Depending on the size of your bottle, you may need to top it up — simply use a similar ratio of water, witch hazel and essential oil until the bottle is filled 2cm from the top.
3. Screw on the lid and shake well to combine. New bottles will need 10-20 pumps before they begin spraying.
Our favourite room oil blends
You can have a lot of fun mixing essential oils to come up with your own uplifting home fragrance. Personally, we love adding a zesty note of lemon, sweet orange or grapefruit and balancing this with the relaxing and grounding scent of lavender. Depending on the season, you may want to have more floral or earthy notes wafting through your home.
Best room spray blends:
- Sweet lavender: 12 drops lavender oil, 6 drops chamomile oil and 2 drops Ylang Ylang oil
- Summer breeze: 5 drops sweet orange oil, 5 drops lemon oil, 5 drops grapefruit oil, and 5 drops Melissa oil
- Antibacterial and deodorising: 4 drops tea tree essential oil (also known as melaleuca essential oil), 9 drops lemon oil and 7 drops eucalyptus oil
- Winter warmer: 6 drops sweet orange oil, 5 drops frankincense oil, 5 drops clove oil and 4 drops bergamot oil.
IMPORTANT: Some essential oils, particularly citrus oils, have been known to discolour fabric because of their acidity. We always recommend spraying into the air rather than directly onto fabric. If you are concerned about any fabrics in the space, test in an inconspicuous area first. Also avoid dark yellow oils that can cause discolouration.
If you love making your own cleaning products using essential oils, you may also like to check out our best DIY cleaning recipes and cleaning hacks.
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Disclaimer: this post was first published in October 2019 and continues to be updated. It contains some affiliate links. This means, if you purchase an item we may receive a commission on the sale of the products.
