Where can I find concentrated Lavender to dilute and use as linen spray?

Question

Where to get---can you do it at home??/

Answer 1

You can find it and other scents at craft stores. Just be sure you're buying a water based scent, not an oil based one or you might stain your clothes.

Answer 2

You can definitely do this at home. I would use purified or bottled (distilled) water so it doesn't get little floaties in it. And you want a clean spray bottle, cleaned up recycled one or new.

You may want to use a half and half mixture of water and alcohol for linen spray so it evaporates a little faster, so you don't get into a freshly misted...wet...bed. The alcohol smells at first use but doesn't stick around long...leaving the scent of choice behind.

Real essential oils, which is what you want...are not "oily" they are so concentrated that you need very little for a spray bottle of water. So they don't leave oily or pigment stains at all when used this way.

You get essential oils in health food stores, or in hippy dippy type places like candle shops, even headshops where pot smoking gear is sold. You can find a select few in regular places like Walmart, and some craft stores are carrying a few in the candle and soap making section. You can also buy them online various places, I have bought EO's at mothernature.com...they also have a reference area to tell you what the oils are good for and the scent family.

Lavender is such a common fragrance that it is very widely available. There are also slightly different smells of lavender EO's so sniff to make sure that is what you want. This would probably depend on slight variations in species and hybrids of these, how the plant grew, when it was harvested. It isn't really different plants, this would be similar to how a pepper is hotter if it grows in a hot dry climate or how a ripe tomato is sweeter than a green tomato.

Answer 3

musicimip's answer is really good...only one thing I thought of to add to it - the flea markets are also a good place to buy the essential oils. Look for the booths that sell incense, candles, scented rocks stuff like that. You might even find other scents that you want to try like mango or my favorite "clean cotton".

Answer 4

Try a pure oil, or an essentialoil. Alotof places sell room sprays

Answer 5

At a health food store.

Answer 6

i bought some at walmart about a year ago near the laundry section.