Aromatherapy at home for men who live and don't live alone. It rhymes! And if these useful ways inspire you to cheaply, practically, ecologically use aromatherapy at home, you will live more rhymes of life's poetry! These ways of using aromatherapy at home will certainly make life healthier and more pleasant for all men and others:

How can the food recycling container smell nicely and not attract insects?

This works well only if you store the food recycling container in a cupboard. Wash and dry the container well.  Line the bottom with 3 dry paper towels. Then add the usual liner. Drip 25 drops of peppermint oil on each of 2 flat cosmetic cotton wool pads. Place the pads on a piece of silver foil folded in half near the container. Leave the container open. Leaving it open dries the food content. Insects will not go into it.  Change the cotton wool pads with peppermint oil every time you wash the container and change its liners. Again, this works well only if you store the container in a cupboard.

The next time your nose bleeds,

soak a cotton wool bud or a piece of cotton wool in lemon juice [or neat essential oil of lemon if at hand] and insert it as far up the bleeding nostril as you can.  Keep it there for 3 minutes while reclining the head. When you remove it, the bleeding will have stopped.

Do the shoes smell badly?

Drip a few drops of any essential oil on a piece of cotton wool ball or pad and insert one into each shoe.  The oil will take the smell away and certainly make the shoes - and even their storage space - smell beautifully!

If the fridge is beginning to stink,

wash it well with the usual cleaning product. Or white vinegar if you want an ecological solution. Then drip 3 drops of either bergamot, grapefruit, lemon, or orange essential oil into half a bucket of water.  Never add too much oil into the water - 3 drops to half a bucket of water are plenty.  Add a splash of washing-up liquid to help the essential oils properly disperse. Wipe the interior of the fridge with this solution. It will leave a fresh clean scent.

Citruses are the best cleaning agents

This is why lemon is the most often used agent in commercial cleaning products. If you don't have any of the essential oils listed in this article, you can also clean any surface in your home with the juice of a lemon fruit. The effect will be just as pleasant and effective. The juice of a lime fruit works the same wonders.  And you may even prefer the smell of lime to that of lemon.  Try it.

How does aromatherapy help men beautifully repel insects at home?

by using certain essential oils. The fifth paragraph of this article lists the right oils for the job.

If the interior of the microwave smells terribly,

also drip 20 drops of peppermint oil on one flat cosmetic cotton wool pad and place the pad into the microwave on a kitchen towel folded in half and in half again. Of course take the pad out before heating meals! And change the pad every so many days when the scent disappears.

But aromatherapy is not common for men at home...

Never mind. If you don't have any essential oils at home, buy them in pharmacies, health or drug stores, or of course online.

Have you stumbled across this article and not viewed other articles or pages of this site?

I write them for you - and all men of the world. I write them to help you. Therefore here're other articles on this site about how men can use aromatherapy:

• how men who own animals can use aromatherapy in treating them
• how corporate men can use aromatherapy at work - you can also use those tips at home.
• why aromatherapy heals - and is healthier, cheaper, more pleasant and effective in the long term than petrochemical medicine

And I always cordially invite you to start a conversation.