Essential Oils Around the Home

When you're really in the mood, spring-cleaning is a wonderful feeling. Air those cupboards, and hang pomanders in them: take oranges, pin a ribbon around each to hang it by, and push cloves into the skin of the whole fruit. More tips for sweet-smelling cupboards that discourage moulds and bugs:

• Lemongrass
• Thyme
• Lavender

Spring can be damp and warm, ideal conditions for moulds and mildew to grow. The essential oils make short work of them:

• Clove
• Pine
• Thyme

Boots benefit from a tissue, sprinkled with a few drops of Rosewood oil, placed inside when they are put away.

Blankets and quilts can be stored in a cupboard with a tissue sprinkled with Lemongrass oil.

This is when we also get the urge to wash our lovely woollen jumpers. Put them in the washing machine on a gentle wash setting, add a few drops of oil of lemon or lavender to the detergent, NOT soap, and add a few more drops to the fabric softener in its dispenser. Remember to use a plain simple detergent, without bleaches or boosters.

Spring cleaning, of course, also benefits us ourselves. There was a long tradition in English and European herbalism to use spring tonics to cleanse and revitalise the whole body after the heavy food of winter. Drink teas of Nettle, Horsetail or Rose Hip.

Reprinted with permission from the National Herbalists Association of Australia

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