Odors can take your home by siege and refuse to let go when you least expect it, but thankfully, there’s more than a few ways for you to fight back with a little creative guerrilla warfare. Before even resorting to the more expensive top-shelf products, you can take away the impact of bad smells in the home with natural odor killers.

The following are four of the most reliable natural air-freshening solutions that you can employ to get your rooms and appliances back from the grips of a persistent stench.

Vinegar

Vinegar doesn’t pack any odorous punch all on its own in its dry form, and it can block the odorous punches of smells that you employ it against just as well. Even in its distinctively-scented liquid form, liquid vinegar boiled in a pot of water can steal away odors from strong-smelling foods that linger after cooking.

Heating liquid vinegar to the point of boiling in a microwaveable container can kill the leftover odors of nuked food easily, and the smell of the vaporized vinegar itself disappears relatively quickly on its own.

Baking soda

Baking soda is a hero on the front lines of our natural odor-fighting arsenal. It is able to execute its hit job against offensive odors by completely canceling out the pH levels in its immediate environment. By neutralizing pH balances, baking soda actually takes odors down by eliminating them instead of just covering them up.

To employ baking soda against stubborn odors, all that it takes is just half a cup of the powder dispensed into a quart or two of water. You can dip a cloth into the baking powder/water solution and use it to wipe down the inside surfaces of your appliances to kill off the odors that may not disappear just by cleaning in the more conventional ways.

House plants

Unassuming household plants, stiller than water and quieter than mice, can be deceptively hard-working odor killers in your home. Darkened areas in the home with a high moisture content can be notoriously susceptible to the buildup of offensively smelly mold, but with a strategically placed Snake Plant (Sansevieria Trifasciata), you have a formidable defender against toulene, formaldehyde, xylene, benzene and formaldehyde odors. Boston Ferns, Red-Edged Dracaena, Aloe and Lady Palms can also serve very helpful roles as stationary odor guards.

Chlorine dioxide

Much like vinegar, chlorine dioxide is another odor-killing power player that totally eliminates offensive odors instead of simply sweeping them under the rug of a different scent. Chlorine dioxide can neutralize chemical smell onslaughts and strong-smelling mold invasions in cars, boats, offices, and residential rooms of any size. To get full access to the extent of chlorine dioxide-assisted deodorizing power, contact us at Closure Clean today!