Nontoxic Air Freshener

It’s easy to get carried away by good smelling scents of air freshener that we might forget that air fresheners affects the quality of our health and environment. Toxic synthetic air freshener adds pollutant particles to our environment (unhealthy indoor air), negatively affecting the natural balance of our environment as well as provoke your skin, eye, respiratory system, and they do not freshen the air but only works by masking the offensive odor.  Synthetic air fresheners and synthetic fragrance products may contain volatile organic compounds (VOCs), chlorinated hydrocarbons, Dichlorobenzene that are actively toxic to our health. Toxic air freshener could cause harm to your respiratory system—allergies, sinusitis/bronchitis, poison kidney and liver; also dichlorobenzene are central nervous system depressant. Older people, sick patients, asthmatics and children—infants are much more vulnerable to the negative effects of toxic air fresheners. 

Aerosol sprays and air fresheners

 

Note: Areosols contain fluorocarbons that are toxic to human. Also Aerosols destroys ozone layer in our atmosphere so do avoid these.

Nontoxic Air freshening alternatives

•  Instead of using synthetic air freshener, open your windows to ventilate-- air out the house periodically and use natural toxic-free air fresheners. 
• Try using an Air purifier to purify your home.  

• Baking soda, white vinegar and lemon, Borax (Sodium borate) helps reduce bad odor, mildew. Try leaving fresh or dry orange, bananas and lemon peel in trash cans. Also, putting baking soda in your trash bin before placing the trash bags into the bin helps reduce bad odor. Also leaving coffee beans open in a basket in one or two corners of the house, helps freshen up the air in your home as well as stimulate your cafe mood.
• Make your own homemade air freshener.

• Try Citrus Magic Solid Air Freshener-- Its natural citrus scent and activated charcoal helps absorbs bad odors caused by pets, garbage, smoke, mildew, dampness, chemicals, paint fumes and freshens the air... Naturally!  
• Aura Cacia Uplifting Bergamot &Orange Air Freshening Spritz is made of fresh fruits and energizing mood-boosting scents of bergamot and sweet orange. This nontoxic Air freshener helps maintain the natural balance of the home and clean-scented atmosphere---Toxic-free and Cruelty free.
• Finally, try growing a few aromatic plants like chocolate mint, rosemary, mint to help freshen and oxygenate your home. 
• Car hints---Car Air-freshening: We drive with our car windows rolled-up and especially during rainy or winter seasons, making us more vulnerable to airborne pollutants stuffed and contained in the car. Keeping our cars clean from dust and wet dew smell is a very important step to healthy driving you. Car-scenter aromatherapy diffuser, creates a pleasant fragrance of essential oils (peppermint, tangerine, eucalyptus, lemongrass, and ylang ylang) as well as provide their therapeutic effects while driving. Good smelling car scents makes a good first impression on you and your cars because you never know when you might be giving a new friend a ride to some place urgent and important......save yourself the embarrassing apologies and just feel good about driving your clean fragrant car.
  
  

  Try car air freshening solution by EarthSolutions, CarScenter Aromatherapy Car Diffusers.