pot-pourri, home, essential oils
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Un potpourri is a composition made with dried flower petals, dried herbs, spices, citrus peel and essential oils. This composition is used to beautify and perfume the house in a natural way.
The potpourri is very useful for bringing a good natural scent to both the rooms of the house and the closets. To perfume the house, the potpourri is poured into a bowl, large or small, usually made of wood, or into a large glass jar, while as for the cabinets and drawers, prepare some cloth or organza bags in which to insert the potpourri.
Enriching your potpourri with cinnamon, lavender or cedar essential oil will help protect your clothes in closets or drawers from moths. While for the potpourri that you will prepare to perfume the rooms of the house you can use the essential oils that you prefer based on their scent and the beneficial effects of each of them according to aromatherapy.
For example, keep in mind that theessential oil of lavender and chamomile essential oil promote relaxation, while oils essentials of thyme and eucalyptus they prevent and counteract colds and seasonal ailments.
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Ingredients for the potpourri
In addition to dried flowers and essential oils, you can add different potpourri to your potpourri decorative and fragrant ingredients which among other things will allow you to reduce waste, for example thanks to the recovery of citrus peels.
Dried flowers
Dried flowers are the essential ingredient of your potpourri, as they will enrich it with colors and will serve to retain the scent of the essential oils you will use. Choose dried flowers from you or buy them in home improvement stores or herbalists. For example, rose petals and lavender flowers will do just fine.
Essential oils
In the case of essential oils it is very important that you buy some quality products. Forget about synthetic essences and go to a herbalist's shop in search of pure essential oils. So your potpourri as well as perfumed will be beneficial for health due to the positive effects on the body and mind of thearomatherapy.
Dried citrus peels
In autumn and winter let the rinds obtained from the radiators dry on the radiators citrus fruits and then chop them to enrich your potpourri with both colors and a delicate natural scent. Choose orange, mandarin, grapefruit and lemon peels. You can chop your citrus peels or grind them into powder. THU all the instructions to prepare them.
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Aromatic herbs and spices
Enrich your potpourri with the aromatic herbs and spices you prefer trying to create a harmony of colors and scents. For example, you can add cinnamon sticks, star anise, cloves, cardamom seeds but also a few sprigs of rosemary, vanilla seeds and dried aromatic herbs such as oregano, tarragon, thyme, to your potpourri. mint, marjoram and sage.
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Tea leaves
You can also add some to your potpourri black tea or green tea leaves that you may have been storing in the pantry for years and therefore have lost their aroma over time. You can use them as a base for potpourri and revive them with essential oils. Another idea is to store the tea leaves after making your drink, let them dry and then use them to make potpourri instead of throwing them away.
Also read: Green tea leaves: 20 ways to reuse them
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Come prepare the potpourri
Combine the selected ingredients in a bowl, preferably of wood, starting from dried flowers and dried aromatic herbs. You can use a pestle to chop everything evenly. If you want, add seeds, spices, citrus peel and tea leaves to the potpourri. Mix the chosen ingredients with a wooden spoon.
Your potpourri, depending on the chosen ingredients, it will have a more or less intense natural fragrance. If you have given preference to citrus peels, you can perfume your potpourri with a few drops of sweet orange, mandarin or lemon essential oil. If you have chosen lavender flowers, add a few drops of the corresponding essential oil and so on. Let yourself be guided by the sense of smell to create the aromatic combinations you prefer.
After adding the essential oils, mix the potpourri well with a wooden spoon. If you will not use it immediately or if you want to give it as a gift, pour the potpourri into a glass jar to close with a lid so that the aroma is maintained for a long time. You can do the same operation even before pouring your potpourri into the container of your choice to be placed in your home or in the bags for the cupboards, so that the ingredients are well impregnated with the scent of essential oils.
Leave the potpourri in the glass jar even for one or two weeks to get a more intense scent. For better fix the perfume of the essential oils of your potpourri, it may be useful to add a teaspoon of cornstarch.
Plan to use 20-30 drops of essential oil to prepare your potpourri and to add a few more drops every now and then to revive the scent.
After pouring the potpourri into the bowl of your choice, you can think of decorating it on the surface, for example with non-chopped flower petals, with star anise or with cinnamon sticks, but also with pine cones, leaves and twigs.
What are your favorite combinations, between flowers, herbs and essential oils, to prepare the potpourri?
Marta Albè
Fonte photo: Jowel Journal
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