Quell The Smell Using Products In Your Home

There is nothing worse than bad smells in your home. What do you do when they attack? Do you buy expensive fragrance sprays and cleaners that just masks smells, or you get right down and fight the bad smell scent moving through your home?

Let's look at the ways to beat the bad scents:

Stinky shoes: Sprinkle salt inside the shoes to cover the insoles. Let it sit overnight, then shake out the salt. The salt absorbs the odours in the soles.

Fresh Bathroom: Put baking soda or crumbled charcoal in an open container and replace weekly.

Smelly Dog: Sprinkle baking soda on the dog's coat and work it into the fur with your hands. Brush out the baking soda.

Stinky Trash Can: Put crumpled newspaper at the bottom under the bag. You can also put crumbled charcoal in your tightly closed empty trash can overnight. Alternately you can use 1 cup of baking soda in the bottom of the pail.

Fish in the Air: To clear the air of fish smells you can either soak fish in milk prior to cooking it or you can hang a wet towel in the kitchen to absorb the smell.

Cheesy Feet: Soak feet daily in 2 cups of brewed black tea combined with 2 cups of water.

Smoke Smells: Scatter orange and lemon peels around or better yet put them in glass candy dishes to be more ornamental.

Musty Smelling Closet: Fill an old sock with a few tablespoons of fresh unused ground coffee and hang in your closet.

Pet Accident Odours: Are best dealt with using white vinegar. 

Toilet Odours: Pour approx 1 cup of white vinegar into the bowl and let stand for a few minutes.  Scrub the toilet and flush.

Food Odours in Your Wood Chopping Block: Scrub it down with lemon juice and baking soda.  Rinse and then season it with mineral oil.

Improving Air Quality: If you don't have a HRV system in your house, you should crack a window for fresh air, improved air quality and to exchange stale bad smelling air from your home.
 
Okay, maybe the fragrance sprays, candles, etc are not so expensive with coupons. However, while sprays, candles, oils, incense may smell nice they all do the same thing; they cover up the smell and leave you with toxic chemicals which you can end up breathing in and absorbing through your skin. No thank you, I choose to breathe easy!

We love to hear from our readers. What do you do to keep your home fresh smelling without the added chemicals?