DIY Water Bead Essential Oil Air Fresheners

by | Nov 25, 2022 | DIY Herbal Recipes

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A while back, we did a talk about DIY Safe, Healthy, Gel Air Fresheners. Today, we want to share another very simple, DIY air freshener recipe, DIY Water Beads, and Essential Oil Air Fresheners.

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Do you come home to a musty, stuffy house? Want a quick fix? But do you still want to be environmentally friendly? If you are into essential oils, DIY crafts, simple living, and kid-safe projects, this is one for you. You can make your own home air freshener with essential oils, and only a few ingredients.

Need a quick Christmas gift, Birthday gift, or Shower gift?  This is a fast, and made gift for every occasion.

This is truly the quickest and most simple way to make your own air fresheners. And this is a great, quick, easy project to get the kids involved in. There are no hot oils, no melting, no cooking, and no hot glue guns involved so all ages can join in.  Kids do love to play with colors. As long as you use baking food coloring, it is safe for the kids to try different colors, do temp tattoos with, and generally make a fun mess.

DIY Water Bead and Essential Oil Air Fresheners

Ingredients:

1 Jar Water Beads

Essential Oils

Food coloring (optional)

A clean, dry container

¼ cup of water

We have a couple of Essential Oil companies that we use but StarWest Botanicals is one of our favorites. They offer high-quality essential oils as well as other fine natural products.

This is a picture of a plastic bottle of floral gel beads.
This shows blue floral gel beads in a red strainer after being washed.

DIY Water Bead and Essential Oil Air Fresheners

Steps:

1. Put the water beads into the container

This is an empty, decorative glass container with a sealable lid.
Here is the decrative, glass container without its lid and with blue floral gel beads filling it.

2. mix ¼ cup of water with 10 to 12 drops of Essential Oils of your choosing, and 1 to 2 drops of food coloring

This is a picture of spearmint essential oil and a small bowl of water.
Here we are adding the spearmint essential oils to the bowl of water.
This is a picture of the next step, adding green food coloring to the bowl of water and essential oils.
The next step is to mix the food coloring into the bowl of water and essential oils

3. Pour the water/essential oil/food coloring mix into the container

This is a picture with the decrative glass container with the light blue floral gel beads in it. The small bowl of green food coloring, water and essential oil is being poured over the gel beads.
Here we have the once light blue floral gel beads covered with water and essential oils. The gel beads are now a dark green.

4. Gently mix a bit, you can put the lid on and give it a good shake also.

5. When you are in need of a room refresh, take the lid off and let out all those wonderful Essential Oils and their benefits.

This is a picture of the finished DIY water gel bead air freshener. The gel beads are all dark green and filling the decrative glass jar. The lid is still off the jar to show the gel beads inside.

6. When you are done, put the lid back on and save it for the next time.

It is just that simple to make your own air fresheners.

You can, of course, tweak this recipe, like most DIY crafts, to your own personal liking.

The water beads come in several different colors and can be found at most stores and flower shops. Either keep the original color of the beads or add food coloring to make your own color theme.

For this project, we used green food coloring as we were going for a Halloween look. Our water beads started out a light blue but with the added green food coloring, they came out a deep green.

But you can use any color you want to get the theme you are going for.

The same is true for essential oils. We used spearmint essential oil in our air freshener. But you can pick your favorite to make your own personal air freshener. Or choose seasonal essential oils for a holiday theme. You can even special design an air freshener to be given as a personal gift.

With a cute or decorative container, you can add some flair to your air fresheners. A bit of ribbon, a charm, or a flower and you have a totally different look for your DIY Water Bead and Essential Oil Air Fresheners.

As with most DIY projects, only your imagination limits the look, theme, or style of your craft. Experiment and try out several different colors and essential oil combos. You never know what you will like until you try some different ways.

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