Homemade Carpet Freshener

If you have kids or pets and a home with carpet, chances are you need a carpet freshener. Make your own Homemade Carpet Freshener with this tutorial made with just two ingredients.

I’m loving this Homemade Carpet Freshener made with just two simple ingredients. It’s the easy solution to deodorize carpets – making it smell clean and fresh.

Do you take off your shoes at home? I’m originally from Hawaii, so it was like the state motto. I even hung a sign outside my house that said, “Please remove your shoes” for my friends in the mainland who weren’t aware of the custom. But after years of living in California, even I admit that I’ve walked on my carpet more than I like to admit. Plus, I’ve got kids. And even with them walking around without shoes my carpets still manage to get a funky odor here and there.

Homemade Carpet Freshener

This recipe is so much better than the store-bought carpet fresheners because it doesn’t have those artificial scents – which are far from natural. Companies don’t have to disclose exactly what’s in their fragrance blend because it’s a proprietary or company secret. So that one ingredients labeled as fragrance could actually contain 200 different chemicals to make up that scent. Artificial scents have been linked to asthma, allergies and other respiratory issues.

Um, no thanks. I’m going to help you keep it natural and deodorize those carpets with just two simple ingredients. You ready for it?

How to Make This Homemade Carpet Freshener – Step By Step

1. In a large mixing bowl, add essential oils and entire box of baking soda. Mix well.

2. Scoop mixture into a glass Mason jar and store until needed.

About The Ingredients

• Baking soda is a natural deodorizer. When you sprinkle it on carpets, it will help to absorb odors and will be removed when you vacuum.
• Essential oils provide a natural scent and can help to deodorize as well. I love to use Orange because it has such a natural, fresh scent. But the blend Purification (made with citronella, rosemary, lemongrass, tea tree, lavandin, and myrtle essential oils) is really very effective in purifying and removing odors for carpets, laundry, etc.

How to Use This Carpet Freshener

• Generously sprinkle 1 cup of the baking soda mixture on carpets. Leave on carpets for one hour to allow mixture to absorb odors and naturally clean carpets.
• Use a vacuum to clean up baking soda mixture. Your carpets should smell like lemon and citronella.
• Use remaining 1 cup as needed.

Can You Put Baking Soda on Carpet?

Can you put baking soda on carpet? Absolutely. There’s no reason to think it would stain or ever do anything odd, though if you feel like it might be an issue, do a test in a small area.

The brand of baking soda in your DIY carpet deodorizer doesn’t matter so much. We used Arm & Hammer from Costco, but we also have a generic brand pictured in our process shots (that I use for baking). Any pure baking soda will work.

Top Tips for This Carpet Cleaner

You can use a glass mason jar with a measuring spoon (to avoid dumping the whole jar in one spot). Here are a few other creative ways to make your own shaker:

• An old spice jar (the bigger ones from bulk purchases would be excellent!)
• Kraft parmesan cheese container.
• make your own: trace a canning lid onto a piece of construction paper and cut out. Punch holes in the circle using a hole puncher. Place the circle and canning ring on the glass jar for a DIY shaker jar!
• Since baking soda absorbs odors, you can mix this up and allow it to sit on a bookshelf and it will also help to naturally freshen the room!

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