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I used to buy plug-in air fresheners from a certain bath and body company. They smelled great, but they filled my home with unnecessary chemicals.
Instead, now I reuse the Wallflower bottles and fill them with safer ingredients. Fresh scents, that I can feel good about exposing my family to, that cost less than the original is a win-win-win in my book!
Materials Needed for Making a Wallflower Refill
- Empty Wallflower bottle (wick still intact)
- Pliers
- Small funnel
- Kitchen scale
- Rubbing alcohol
- Essential oil or phthalate-free fragrance oil
You can try and clean the bottle before refilling, if you wish. Be careful of the nail that holds the wick in place if you are trying to rinse the wick and wring it out, it can poke you!
I am a soap maker and have a lot of different essential oils and phthalate-free fragrance oils on hand, use whichever you prefer.
The rubbing alcohol in this recipe is used as a solvent and diluting agent for the essential oil or fragrance oil. I tried using a carrier oil instead, but I think it was too thick and did not diffuse or evaporate very much at all over time.
Wallflower Refill Recipe
- 0.3 ounce rubbing alcohol
- 0.5 ounce essential oil or phthalate-free fragrance oil
These are the only ingredients needed to refill your air freshener, I measure them out by weight with a kitchen scale.
Directions for Making a Wallflower Refill
- With pliers, grasp the plastic circle surrounding the wick and lift it from the empty Wallflower bottle
- Carefully set the wick aside, it has a nail in it that can poke you!
- Put the empty Wallflower bottle on your kitchen scale
- Put the funnel on top of it
- Tare your kitchen scale
- Pour 0.3 ounce of rubbing alcohol into the Wallflower bottle
- Pour 0.5 ounce of essential or phthalate-free fragrance oil into the Wallflower bottle, the two ingredients will separate, that is normal
- Screw the refilled Wallflower bottle into your plugged-in air freshener
- Enjoy!
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