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A Scented Home is a Bug and Germ Protected Pleasant Home


With only a couple of drops essential oils you can lighten your home with its sweet aromas and ward of pests and bacteria. Here are a few tips to which oils offer these great properties.

 

  • Diffuse essential oils to purify the air and enjoy fresh fragrances using the following: Citrus Bliss, Peppermint, and On Guard.
  • When you send your children to camp send then with a bottle of the essential oil blend Purify. They can quickly and easily clean and protect their tent, sleeping bag, cabin and mattress ridding them of smells and bugs.
  • Bring essential oils with you when you travel for when you stay in hotels. Put a few drops on a washcloth and place it over air vents to cleanse airborne pathogens and odors.

 

Listed below are more tips about how to keep your home smelling refreshing and also keeping free from bugs and pests by using all natural essential oils. Just add a few drops of the following essential oils to a cotton ball and put them in corners or under counters and couches.

  • Ants – rosemary, TerraShield, peppermint
  • Beetles – thyme, TerraShield, peppermint
  • Aphids – peppermint
  • Chiggers – lemongrass, TerraShield, thyme, lavender
  • Fleas – lavender, TerraShield, Purify, peppermint,  lemongrass
  • Cutworm – thyme
  • Gnats – TerraShield
  • Flies – peppermint, TerraShield, lavender, rosemary
  • Plant lice – peppermint
  • Moths – lavender, TerraShield, peppermint, Purify
  • Mosquitos – lemongrass, TerraShield, lavender
  • Ticks – lemongrass, Purify, thyme, lavender
  • Spiders – TerraShield, peppermint, Purify

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