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I’ve been on quite the lavender kick lately since I dried a lot of lavender from my garden. Here’s another fun little project – how to make your own lavender room spray.

I have a lot of dried lavender and so I’ve been trying to come up with ideas for using it.

The scent of lavender is unlike any other. I simply love it. It’s so nice and calming and soothing. Making a lavender spray brings that scent indoors. It’s really quite easy to make. I’ll be honest, the dried lavender is not really key here – it’s more of a garnish or decoration, but as mentioned, I’m trying to find ways to use up my dried lavender.

All of these lavender projects of mine make great gifts.

You can buy ready-made essential oil sprays. But it really is so easy to make your own and this way you can customize to the essential oil of your choice.

Supplies Needed to Make a Lavender Room Spray

All these things are readily available, either online or in local grocery stores.

• lavender essential oil; make sure it is pure – I like to use doTerra essential oils
• witch hazel – a natural astringent which can be found in most drug stores; if you can’t find witch hazel, you can substitute with pure vodka. This will mix with the essential oils before adding the water. Remember, water and oil don’t mix.
• distilled water – this is water that contains no impurities
• 8 oz glass spray bottle – amber glass protects the contents from UV rays, but clear lets you see the pretty dried lavender in it; and well, glass is just always better than plastic.
• funnel – small enough to fit into the neck of the glass bottle to fill.
• dried lavender (optional) – a nice added, decorative touch.

How to Make a Lavender Room Spray

• using the funnel, add 2 tablespoons of witch hazel into the glass bottle
• add 10-20 drops of essential oil; the more you add, the stronger the smell. This is purely a personal thing. When in doubt start with less and then add more if you want it stronger
• give the bottle a shake – the oil should mix with the witch hazel.
• top up the bottle with the distilled water – it should be approximately 1 cup
• give the bottle a shake again

This recipe can easily be doubled or halved. Make up a batch and give as gifts. These make great gifts for so many occasions., including birthdays or hostess gifts.

I like to label my room sprays using a Waterslide Decal. To learn about how to do that, check out my blog post here.

How to Use a Room Spray

• a couple of sprays to your room will bring that wonderful scent of lavender indoors.
• some will spray on their bed linens to help them sleep at night.
• spray on items while you iron to make them smell nice.

The smell of lavender is just so calming and soothing. I love giving my bedroom a couple of sprays before going to bed at night.

Other Room Spray Suggestions

Lavender isn’t the only essential oil you can use. Here are some other suggestions.

Wild Orange – either by itself or combined with Peppermint makes a refreshing, invigorating room spray. I spray my office at school with this. An added bonus is that mice supposedly don’t like the smell of peppermint!

Purify – this is doTerra clean home smell. I use this spray in my front hall where all the shoes are stored.

Want to remember how to make this lavender room spray? Be sure to save this to your favourite Pinterest board.