thread: Pretty-smelling room spray/cleaner?

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  1. #1
    Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

    Jan 2005
    Funky Town, Vic
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    a few hours with the windows open really goes a long way xoxo

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    Jan 2008
    SE suburbs, Vic
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    I use the Avon vanilla room spray occasionally. It's a bit strong for the 1st half hour or so but it's quite nice after that

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    Apr 2009
    in the garden
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    I would use sugar soap on the walls ...as for smell, I have a spray bottle filled with an essential oil mix OR - just as good, I looooove lemon - wipe a bit of lemon oil over doorknobs, window sills, lightbulbs (when the light heats up the oil heats too).

    Of course if you don't like lemon, use another I get my oils from the health food shop or chemist.

  4. #4
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    Dec 2005
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    I would get the walls cleaned first, then fragrance the room. Sugar soap is great for walls. Open up all the windows if you can (unless it's freezing where you are) and once the walls are cleaned, light an oil burner or spray a fragrance.

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    Apr 2010
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    Grotty fingermarks are just oil from your skin with dirt stuck to it. We get those off with a spot of dishwashing liquid in some warm water in a bucket. If you've got mould from little people and not water damage, that would just be food smeared on the walls so will come off with the same stuff.

    I'm sure you can get every scent of dishwashing liquid there is

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    Dec 2007
    Taking a ride on my grdonkey :D
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    Thanks so much for your suggestions, ladies! I cleaned the walls with the Vanilla spray that smiles4u suggested (which smells AMAZING!) and got the tough spots (pencil/crayon marks etc) with a bit of cream cleanser. So far I've only done the hallway and lounge room but the entire house smells just gorgeous - and who knew the walls were so white under all that dust?

    Fleur, the lemon oil idea on light fittings etc sounds delish, too - will definitely have a go at that! I might try and slip one of the new Glade vanilla candles into the grocery shop tomorrow heheh I looooove vanilla smells!

    Thanks girls, I really appreciate the suggestions

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    Sep 2006
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    Add water-miscible lavendar to your shopping list too, it's available in Woolies near the medicines usually (sometimes the cleaning products).

    Put a little (not even a half capful) in a water sprayer full of water.
    When you make up their bed, give a little spray over the sheets, and each night give a spray over the bed. Also it's great as a rinse (a drop or 2) in the washing machine.