The Naturally Scented Home Creating Traditional Scented Products with a Modern Twist

by Bird, Julia

• ISBN13: 9781855857971
• ISBN10: 1855857979
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-30
• Publisher: Collins & Brown

Summary

Any real estate agent will advise you boiling lemons or oranges will provide a "welcome" scent, while masking any unpleasant ones. It works, and drawing from the highly popular tradition of aromatherapy, a top interior designer shows how to keep a home smelling fresh and sweet and pure--emphasizing the use of easy, effective, and 100-percent-natural recipes. Beyond simple solutions to handling nasty odors, from banishing cooking smells to deodorizing a dog's bed, she offers exotic ideas (scented inks, pampering bath oils) for increasing your domestic pleasures. Concoct your own fragrant insecticides, air fresheners, furniture creams, laundry soap, moth bags, and more, and in addition make the most of flowers and incense. A Selection of the Country Home Book Club.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(3)
First Principles	10	(14)
Essential oils
essential spices
essential herbs
The Kitchen	24	(24)
Wholesome scents to stimulate the appetite
getting rid of stale cooking odours
creating natural insecticides
making a culinary herbal wreath
making natural furniture polish
The Laundry	48	(14)
Drying washing over herb bushes
creating herbal rinses for washing clothes
scented ironing water
strewing herbs in linen chests and drawers
herbal moth bags to preserve clothes
scented coat-hangers
The Scented Room	62	(28)
Fresh flowers through the seasons
burning scented woods
vaporizing and burning essential oils
strewing herbs to freshen carpets
lavender garlands
herbal sleep pillows
pet beanbag
baby mobile
pot pourri
herbal candles
The Scented Bathroom	90	(14)
Changing the mood with scent
shower and bath oils and soaps
footbaths
hair rinses
aftershave
scented candles
Celebrations	104	(20)
Scented gifts and decorations for special occasions
scented papers for wrapping
Thanksgiving and Christmas scented decorations and aromatic foods
festive pomanders
aromatic room scents for winter
aromatic gift hamper
picking, drying & storing herbs & flowers	124	(1)
essential oils safety	125	(1)
suppliers	126	(1)
index	127	(1)
acknowledgements	128