Healthy Home
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Freshen Your Air With Lemons
What is more inviting than the scent of fresh air and lemons? Bring both into your home. Open your windows whenever possible to bring the clean air into your home. This will help vent out the harmful substances which may have entered over the winter and stayed. To eliminate odors simmer some lemon slices.
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Orange Oil Helps Deter Ants
Put a few drops of essential oil of orange on a cotton ball. Wipe on entry points or place the cotton balls in strategic locations. Do not rub the oil on a surface where it might become slippery and cause a fall. The essential oil of orange contains limonene which is toxic to ants and
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Dry clothes to kill ticks
A study released in the journal Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, states that drying your clothes in your clothes dryer on a hot setting will kill ticks in six minutes. Do not wash the clothes first and place them in the dryer on high immediately after coming in from a possible tick infested area. The CDC currently recommends
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Mulled Cider- Simmering Potpourri
Fall is a great time to add the aroma of mulled cider to your home. It evokes a comforting, welcoming, warm feeling to all who enter. All you need is a few tablespoons of natural mulled cider mix added to four or five cups of water in a pan. Bring to a simmer. Be careful!
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Freshen your home with peppermint
Using a homemade, natural peppermint room spray can bring a fresh, lively holiday scent to your home. I spritz some in my entry halI to greet my guests. I use the spray around all my sofas and cushioned chairs. Hold the spray about two feet away from your stuffed furniture and spritz gently. Do not