Make My Day Camp: Car Air Fresheners (re-run)

Monday, January 10, 2022

Car Air Fresheners (re-run)

Today's re-run is from 3/19 - how to make car air fresheners. I still have a bunch of these wool balls, I should make some more! I still have the original ones and just add essential oils every now and then when I think about it.

Here's the original post:

There's lots going on while you're in the car and some of it is unpleasant. For example: traffic. lights. slowpoke grandpa in front of you. construction. stale air. Or maybe you're bummed you've lost that "new car smell"...

Any number of things to make your drive more difficult than it should be. Enter these easy to make air diffuser/fresheners to help change your mood, calm your mind, chill out, slow the road rage, or at the minimum at least make your car smell good!

You'll need:

embroidery thread

needle

wool felt balls

mini clothespins

essential oils

bells, buttons, beads, artificial flowers, plastic animals - lots of options!

Super easy - string a long piece of embroidery thread onto a needle; pull it thru the eye on a mini clothespin, then string a few wool felt balls leaving about an inch or so gap between the top ball and the clothespin.

After you have the number of balls you want strung, run the thread thru something that will hold them in place - I made a few different ones using a mini bell, a button, a plastic bead, and an artificial flower all with good success. I even drilled a hole thru a small plastic animal and strung that on in between the balls. So cute! Then run the thread back up thru the last felt ball and cut the thread close to the ball so you don't see a tail.

Once your air freshener is all strung, put a few drops of essential oils on each felt ball - you can do all one scent or mix them up; I did combinations of different citrus scents (grapefruit, tangerine, lime), grapefruit and lavender, tangerine and mint - whatever you like!

Clip to your car vent, or I have a bunch of stuff hanging from my rear view mirror so clipped mine to one of the existing hooks. When the scent starts to dissipate just add more essential oil drops to the balls.