Aromatherapy Diffusers – One in Every Place and A Place for Every One

 If you have persisted in the delusion “aromatherapy” means simply “cheer you up,” please, get over it.  In fact, proper practice of aromatherapy enhances and enriches the whole range of therapies: Yes, you can relieve anxiety and depression with well-chosen pick-me-up fragrances; you also can foster fast results in physical therapy with aromatherapy massage oils, and you can reinforce the benefits of dental therapy with anti-bacterial gargles and mouthwashes.  You similarly can promote quick recovery from colds and flu by using aromatherapy oils in your humidifier and drinking potent herbs mixed into your tea.  Most of all, however, you can eliminate the need for corrective therapies of all kinds when you strategically place aromatherapy diffusers all around your home.

Simple Home-Crafted Aromatherapy Diffusers

As you begin cleansing, disinfecting, and purifying the air throughout your home, take the word “diffuser” more literally than technologically.  Anything that spreads healthy fragrances into your indoor air literally qualifies as an aromatherapy diffuser:  A simmering saucepan on the stove, a gently bubbling crockpot, a nicely scented hankie, an orange pierced with cloves and hung in a doorway, a sachet, and a tiny little packet of dried leaves all qualify as aromatherapy diffusers.  You need not order an expensive high-tech aromatherapy diffuser from an expensive catalogue or a late-night cable television commercial.  Candles diffuse aromatherapy scents into your air, and fragrance soaked cloths diffuse aromatherapy scents into your clothes as they tumble around the dryer.  Yes, you eventually will want to invest in more cute and catchy gismos to dispense your favorite fragrances all around the house, but why not first perfect the basics?

Aromatherapy Diffusers for Your Bathrooms

Still thinking literally and primitively about aromatherapy diffusers, consider equipping your bathrooms with incense and aromatherapy candles.  Many of Nature’s most powerful essential oils act as anti-microbials, anti-bacterials, anti-fungals, and broad-spectrum disinfectants.  Therefore, an aromatherapy candle or richly base-noted stick of incense innocently burning on your new marble countertop not only smells wonderful but also kills just about every airborne pathogen and contaminant floating around the most dangerous room in your home.  And, evolving one simple step from primitive, consider using your combination heat lamp/and exhaust fan as an aromatherapy diffuser.  Suspend a flame-retardant sachet of potpourri from the ceiling fixture, so that steam and heat will spread its therapeutic essences throughout the room every time a family member takes a bath or shower.

Never underestimate your body’s potential as an aromatherapy diffuser, too.  If you mix essential oils in your shampoo and conditioner, your hair will diffuse its rich, alluring fragrances every time you shake it.  If you mix those same essential oils in your soap or shower gel, adding them to your moisturizer for extra good measure, you will diffuse good smells and good feelings with every move you make.

Aromatherapy Diffusers for Your Car

If you number among the majority of super-powered American moms, you actually live in your car, occasionally visiting your house to cook, clean, do laundry, and grab quick naps between carpools and softball games.  If you breathe in the aroma from the driver’s seat, you probably will discover it smells like you, because it has absorbed your perfumed perspiration day after day after day.  Capitalize on this good fortune, matching your aromatherapy diffuser to your signature fragrance and unmistakably marking the car as your territory.  Dilute your favorite perfume with purified water, and then soak a handkerchief or small piece of cloth in your aromatherapy solution; keep soaking until your perfume thoroughly saturates the cloth.  Then, suspend it from your heating and air conditioning vent, so that your fragrance circulates along with the air in the car.  Lock the radio on your favorite station and you own the car instead of the car owning you.