Steps to Making Your Favorite Fragrance 

You can actually just add 2-4 drops of your favorite essential oil to the dryer balls and pitch them in the dryer with your clothes. 

Or, you can do this DIY recipe to help those oils go a little further:

Gather Ingredients:

• Witch Hazel (or Vodka)
• Essential Oil Preference
• Distilled Water
• 4oz glass spray bottle

 Instructions:

• Add 2 tablespoons of witch hazel (or Vodka) to a 4 oz spray bottle
  • tip: Choose a spray bottle that’s made from materials safe to use with diluted essential oils.  Glass, stainless steel, and certain types of plastic (plastic #1 HDPE or plastic #2 PET) work well.
  • tip: Use a small funnel to make it easy to pour in the narrow bottle opening without any spills or mess.
• Add 20-25 drops of essential oil
• Fill the bottle with distilled water
  • tip:  Instead of distilled water, you can substitute boiled and cooled filtered water.
  • tip:  Don’t fill the bottle all the way to the top.  Leave a little room so that it won’t overflow when you add the sprayer.
• Put spray top on and shake to mix
• Add a label

Your Prefered Scents and Essential Oils to Create the Scent 

• Fresh & Clean (like clean cotton and fresh laundry on the line)
  • sweet orange
  • lemon
  • lime
  • grapefruit
  • bergamot
  • peppermint
  • spearmint
  • tea tree
• Floral
  • lavender
  • rose
  • patchouli
  • geranium
  • ylang ylang
• Woodsy & Grassy (mountain fresh)
  • cypress
  • juniper berry
  • cedarwood
  • spruce
  • pine
  • eucalyptus
  • fir
  • Rosemary
• Warm & Cozy
  • vanilla
  • cinnamon
  • ginger

Recipes You Might Like To Try

Fresh & Clean (clean scents – for that just-off-the-line feel)

1.  Laundry on the Line

10 drops lavender + 6 drops fir + 4 drops bergamot + 2 drops wintergreen

2. Just Washed

6 drops lavender + 6 drops bergamot + 6 drops lemon + 3 drops geranium

3. Lemony Fresh

14 drops lemon + 3 drops basil + 3 drops spearmint

4. Bright Linens

9 drops eucalyptus + 9 drops lemon + 6 drops spearmint

5. Ocean Mist

8 drops lavender + 8 drops lime + 4 drops spearmint

6. Clean Cotton

5 drops eucalyptus + 5 drops peppermint + 5 drops lemon + 4 drops lavender + 3 drops tea tree + 3 drops rosemary

7. Fresh Linen

8 drops lemon + 7 drops spearmint + 5 drops geranium

8. Citrus Fresh

8 drops lemongrass + 8 drops orange + 5 drops rosemary

9. Fresh Air

8 drops lemon + 6 drops lavender + 6 drops eucalyptus

10. Happy Vibes

10 drops tangerine + 6 drops lavender + 4 drops lime + 4 drops spearmint

11. Clean Linen

9 drops eucalyptus + 6 drops lavender + 6 drops tea tree + 3 drops peppermint

12. Anthropology Volcano

6 drops grapefruit + 6 drops tangerine + 4 drops lime + 3 drops geranium + 3 drops spruce

13. Bliss

8 drops orange + 8 drops grapefruit + 8 drops bergamot

Floral (Refreshing, soothing scents reminiscent of clothes gently drying in a warm spring or summer breeze.  Many evoke the scents of sunshine and fresh rain.)

14. Summer Sunset

6 ylang ylang + 6 drops orange + 5 drops sandalwood + 3 drops patchouli

15. Spring Blossom

15 drops lemon + 10 drops lavender

16. Island Vibes

9 drops vanilla oleoresin + 9 drops ylang ylang + 6 drops sandalwood

17. Once Upon a Time

8 drops vanilla oleoresin + 6 drops rose + 5 drops clary sage + 2 drops vetiver + 2 drops ylang ylang

18. End of the Rainbow

10 drops lavender + 8 drops orange + 4 drops vanilla oleoresin + 2 drops spruce

19. Bohemian Wildflower

8 drops bergamot + 4 drops jasmine + 3 drops patchouli + 2 drops myrrh

20. Spring Rain

14 drops lemon + 10 drops vetiver

Woodsy & Grassy (warm, masculine scents with the essence of the fresh outdoors)

21. Mountain Air

12 drops cedarwood + 6 drops pine + 6 drops orange

22. Lake House

6 drops juniper + 6 drops cypress + 6 drops spruce + 3 drops peppermint + 2 drops vetiver

23. Into the Woods

10 drops frankincense + 7 drops cedarwood + 5 drops fir + 3 drops bergamot

24. Freshly Mowed Lawn

drops basil + drops spruce + drops orange + drops grapefruit + drops lemon + drops spearmint

25. Every Man

10 drops sandalwood + 5 drops vetiver + 5 drops amber + 5 drops vanilla oleoresin

Warm & Cozy (fresh, warm, soothing scents — perfect for laundering clothes in cooler months and washing bedding all year round)

26. Sweet Dreams

12 drops lavender + 12 drops vanilla oleoresin

27. Vanilla Bean Marshmallow

14 drops vanilla oleoresin + 7 drops cypress + 7 drops spruce

28. Cuddly Comfort

8 drops orange + 4 drops frankincense + 2 drops cinnamon + 4 drops copaiba + 4 drops peppermint

29. Vacation Dreams

8 drops orange + 6 drops vanilla oleoresin + 6 drops lime + 3 drops cedarwood

30. Vanilla Mint

16 drops vanilla oleoresin + 8 drops peppermint

How to Use Wool Dryer Balls

• optional: If you live in a dry climate (or it's winter), to help with static cling, start by soaking dryer balls in water and squeezing out excess water.  This will help keep enough humidity in your dryer to prevent static without increasing drying time.  If humidity is not low in your home, then you can skip this step.  It’s only needed in dry climates.
• Put wet clothes into the dryer.
• Pin a safety pin to a couple of the wool dryer balls.  This will help discharge electricity in the dryer and reduce static cling.
• Spray wool dryer balls several times with the mixture.
• Add the proper # of dryer balls to the laundry in the dryer.
  • small load= 2 balls
  • average size load= 4 balls
  • large load= 6 balls
• Take clothes out of the dryer when they are still slightly damp or just barely dry.  You don’t want to over-dry laundry; this leads to static cling.
• If already washed-and-dried clothes have static cling, then here are a few things to do to get rid of (or at least lessen) the static:
  • Spray clothes lightly with water.  The added moisture should help lessen the static.
  • Use a humidifier in your home to make the air less dry.
  • Moisturize your skin.  Rub some body butter on your arms and legs before getting dressed.   This will help break the charge and cut the static cling.

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