How to Make a Room Spray With Natural Ingredients

How to Make an All-Natural Room Spray

Give your linens, bedroom, and the air in your home a refreshing spritz sans harsh chemicals.

Updated on September 22, 2023

Natural Room Spray — Photo:
ANUSHA RAJESWARAN

A refreshing room spray can infuse your linens, bedding, bathroom, and other areas of your home with a pleasant scent. Rather than buying one, consider making your own DIY room spray with essential oils.

Essential oils—extracted from leaves, fruit peels, petals, and other plant parts—capture nature's subtle fragrances and can refresh your living space. That's why writer Anusha Rajeswaran decided to create this all-natural spray, which you can spritz throughout every room in your home.

All you'll need to recreate this project is unscented witch hazel, dried flowers, distilled water, and your favorite essential oils. You can mix and match the former for a signature scent: Try combinations like wild orange and tea tree, lavender and rose, or green tea and cucumber.

What You'll Need

Materials

Spray bottles
Essential oils
Distilled water
Unscented witch hazel
Dried flowers

Instructions

Add essential oils:

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Pour 25 to 30 drops of essential oil in your bottle.
Add witch hazel:

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Fill the bottle halfway with witch hazel. (Note: Witch hazel helps the oil and water combine and will help the scent linger for a longer period of time.)
Fill bottle with distilled water:

Fill the rest of the bottle with distilled water. This ratio works pretty well no matter the size of the bottle. Shake bottle to combine all the ingredients.
Insert flowers and herbs:

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Insert a sprig of dried flowers and herbs to finish off your fragrant spray.

Remember that although essential oils are derived from all-natural ingredients, they can still be strong! Be sure to handle undiluted products with care.