Aroma-bumps for home: Make just, the main thing is to know several subtleties

Pine, spruce, a little bumps are remarkably beautiful and become an excellent addition to the home decor. But they have another remarkable property: they perfectly absorb the essential oils, keeping a pleasant fragrance in the room for a long time.

If you are lucky to live near the forest or a coniferous tree grows in the country, then collect the bumps will not be difficult. If in your climatic zone, coniferous trees do not grow, the package with cones is easy to buy in stores for needlework.

Nice smelling cones can be folded into a vase or basket and make a small lamp, adding a LED tape or placing a candle in a glass candlestick.

Materials:

• 1/2 glasses of water (it is best to use distilled water, but the usual water supply will also fit)
• 10 drops of cinnamon essential oil
• 10 drops of essential oil cloves
• Small bottle with sprays
• Plastic bags with zipper

If you bought a bump in the store, it is not necessary to clean them. They are already washed, sucked and ready for the next step - saturated with aroma.

Rinse and dry cones

Brought from the forest bumps must be previously handled. For this:

1. The oven you need to warm up to 100 ° C.
2. Fill with water with a large capacity by adding a few dishwashing fluid into it.
3. Cryers rinse and drain the water.
4. On the baking sheet, lay a sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil and spread the bumps.

Cones dry for 40 minutes. This process will make rid of the sticky resin and remove all tiny insects. We do not need to be no last forest guests in the house? Before proceeding to the next step, we will give the cones to cool.

Soak the cones with essential oils

In the bottle with sprays, mix water and essential oils.

Corses will be folded 3 layers. Put ⅓ cones in a plastic bag and spray spray. Put the second, then the remaining part, each time aromatizing the cones with a mixture of water and essential oils. Now you can close the package so that the cones are pretty soaked with a fragrant mixture for 3 days - 1 weeks.

After 3 days, remove one bump from the package and determine whether it was enough to be smelted. If not, give the cones stand another week.

Put the fragrant smelling bumps into a beautiful dishes or a basket.

Optionally, create a beautiful autumn composition with cinnamon sticks, small ticks and apples.