Nice Laundry Smell Without A Fabric Softener

Many people love when their laundry smells nicely. The worse thing you can use on your diapers, or all laudry actually, is a syntetic fabric softener. Not many people realize, that syntetic smell is made of petroleum. Fabric softener stays in your clothes, destroys your laundry, irritates the skin and is dangerous to enviroment as well. And it doesn't help to remove detergents from your laundry either, like citric acid does, for example. 

If you want to add a nice smell to your laundry add few drops of pure essential oil to your washing (Saloos, Yellow&Blue are the most available brands around). You can add it to your diaper pail as well. You can use only one essential oil or try more for some nice combination.

First, try tea tree essential oil for its disinfecting - antiseptic, antimicrobial and antifungal properties, because it is the biggest cleaner of the bunch, especially if you are looking for more natural ways to reduce germs in your home without chlorine bleach or other unnatural chemicals.

Second, you can choose one citrus essential oil for their cleaning power. Citrus smells are such a common fragrance for cleaners. They smell not just clean, but  bright and fresh as well. The choices include lemon (the most popular), sweet orange, lime, grapefruit and tangerine.

And third, choose one of the following, a floral essential oil, minty essential oil, or an herbal or woodsy essential oil. The most popular of these are lavender, peppermint, and pine oil.

Just let your personality and personal preferences guide you in your choices, along with making sure what you choose blends well with the other things you choose.

* Flowery sweet blend: 2 parts lavender essential oil, 1 part vanilla essential oil
* Flowery savory blend: 2 parts lavender essential oil, 1 part rosemary essential oil
* Flowery fruity blend: Equal parts geranium and sweet orange essential oils
* Romantic blend: Equal parts rose and geranium essential oils
* Herbal lemon blend: 2 parts lemon essential oil, 1 part lemongrass essential oil, 1 part chamomile essential oil
* Fresh citrus blend: Equal parts lemon, lemongrass, and tea tree essential oil
* Citrusy blend: Equal parts lemon and sweet orange oils
* Minty blend: Equal parts peppermint and eucalyptus oils

If you don't want to use essential oil , many ecofriendly liquid detergents already contain an essential oils as ingredient, for example Yellow&Blue Soap Nut liquid detergent is available with lavender or orange essential oil.