If you enjoy the fragrance of scented candles,* you will truly enjoy cleaning your home as you spray your countertops and other surfaces with a cleaning solution containing a fragrance of lavender or tea tree oil or patchouli. Visit your local Whole Foods Market or health food store to sample your options. Be willing to experiment by mixing and blending fragrances. What’s great about this is you can create the fragrance you like and use it in your cleaning solution.
About Essential Oils
An essential oil is a concentrated, hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants. Essential oils are also known as volatile or ethereal oils, or simply as the “oil of” the plant from which they were extracted, such as oil of clove. An oil is “essential” in the sense that it carries a distinctive scent, or essence, of the plant. Essential oils do not as a group need to have any specific chemical properties in common, beyond conveying characteristic fragrances.
*Some people are sensitive to fragrances and for those who are, I recommend using any natural or organic non-scented liquid soap.