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Your Own Homemade Deodorizing Spray

Are you fussy about smells in your home? I am and a lot of women friends I have are also particular about smells, most particularly cigarette smells, pet odors, and cooking smells. I find deodorizing sprays expensive though so I’ve been searching the net for do-it-yourself deodorizing spray recipes I could use for my own home.

I came across an article in Ehow.com from contributor Barbara Stanley and I found her tips to be easy and simple enough so I want to try it out. The ingredients are mostly things that I already have..

Let me just share the recipe..Ingredients: 1 cup distilled water, 8-10 drops essential oils, you’ll also need 1 8-10 oz. spray bottle and a funnel.

How to:

Add 1 cup of distilled water to the empty bottle. (do not use tap water unless you plan to refrigerate your spray as bacteria grows on tap water)

Add 8-10 drops of essential oil.

Cap the bottle and allow the oil to infuse for 3 hours. Shake well before using. This is fine and mild enough.

For stronger deodorizing spray and scented spray, visit the Ehow link above for the recipe.

Just My Two Cents About Smoking..

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I don’t smoke. But I’m not so ignorant about it. I did try to smoke when I was in my early 20’s, impressionable and holding a very pressure-filled job. Smoking didn’t do anything for me, I found no pleasure from it, nor did it relieve me of stress. I have simply done it because of peer pressure.

But after a few months I realized that the habit was not doing anything for me. Everything about it is negative, so I made the decision to stop. I never found it hard to stop since the habit has not really been deeply ingrained on me yet. I simply think of the negatives and it was that easy to stop.

I’m not about to be hypocritical and start lecturing those who still have the habit of smoking. It’s their choice and everyone have different reasons for making that choice. But I do care about the negative effects of smoking to people. Just like my sister who is a chronic smoker, I’ve been trying to coax her into giving it up to no avail. To make things worse, she also has asthma and I’m scared for her health’s sake. But I refuse to give up, and hopefully someday before its too late she realizes the ill effects of smoking.

There are enormous health consequence with smoking. Not just on the person smoking but for others who inhale second hand smoke. Specially with kids, friends and relatives who smokes knows me well enough not to smoke anywhere near my daughter coz for sure I’ll be hitting the ceiling.