How to Make a Homemade Laundry Scent Booster Recipe

Making your own homemade laundry scent booster is a practical and perfect addition to your laundry cabinet. I like using this recipe to naturally brighten whites, eliminate strong odors, or add a light scent to clothes or towels. The best part is that it contains simple ingredients and is easy to make, you will need this in your house at all times!

Natural Laundry Routine

This simple DIY recipe is a great compliment to other natural laundry products you already have. My personal favorites are Thieves laundry soap, diy stain stick, using vinegar as a natural fabric softener, and wool dryer balls. If you are looking for even more scent, then you can add a few drops of a single essential oil to the wool dryer balls before you add them to your laundry. These are my favorite wool dryer balls, and they have lasted for almost three years!

Making your own natural products has many benefits such as knowing what ingredients are in the products you are using, being cost-effective, and avoiding artificial fragrances. You can also make as small or large of a batch of the scent booster, depending on how often you use it and how many loads of laundry you are doing. I usually make smaller batches, because then it is always fresh when I use it. Trust me, this recipe is so much better than store-bought versions!

Natural Ingredients

Washing soda, also known as sodium carbonate, is great for softening water. It can help “boost” the other ingredients in your laundry detergent and lift stains or dirt from the materials being washed. It is especially great to use if you have hard water because it softens the water naturally.

Baking soda is another great product for your homemade laundry booster recipe because it is great at lifting stains and neutralizing odors.  Besides, it can brighten your whites and keep your colors looking fresh and not faded.  

Essential Oils are what we’re using to add some fresh scents. They are the best way to add a natural scent that has a long-lasting scent. Depending on the plant, tree, or herb, essential oils are concentrated extracts from steam distillation or cold-pressed. This means when you are making your products you only need a small amount of essential oils to enjoy the natural fragrance.

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When to use your laundry booster

This laundry scent booster can be used for all types of laundry that you have in your home. It can be used on the following items in your home:

• clothing
• towels
• bedding
• blankets
• exercise clothes
• children’s clothes
• pet bedding

Both washing soda and baking soda are excellent at eliminating odors naturally, which makes the simple homemade recipe perfect for those items. It is highly recommended that you use the laundry booster for those items with a little bit of stink (such as workout clothes, sporting gear, work outside clothing, and pet bedding), and then use the purification essential oil blend for an extra boost. Lastly, you can use the laundry booster for stubborn stains as well.

Essential oil blends for laundry

Homemade laundry scent booster recipe

• 1 cup washing soda
• 1 cup baking soda
• 15-20 drops of essential oils (see above for custom scents)
• Glass storage jar

Using Your Homemade Laundry Scent Booster

Now that you made your own laundry scent booster, add up to a 1/4 cup per load of laundry. Add it directly to the bottom of your washing machine and then drop in clothes, towels, or bedding on top. Use laundry detergent and fabric softeners as normal.

If you have stinky or stubborn stains, then use a 1/4 cup diy laundry booster. Add normal amount of laundry detergent and 1/4 cup white vinegar in the laundry softener container in your washing machine. Run a normal washing machine cycle with an extra rinse cycle. If you have stains, then pretreat with a stain stick and let sit for at least 5 minutes (or up to several hours) before washing the item. Launder again if the clothing still have a bit of a funky odor or stains are still present before drying.

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All of my Laundry Room Favorites

My Making a More Natural Laundry Room post goes into more detail about swapping out your entire laundry room for a less toxic life.  Check out the post for the complete guide to Making a Natural Laundry Room in your home!  Here are a few of my favorites:

• fabric softener – white vinegar
• wool dryer balls 
• diy stain stick recipe
• thieves laundry soap recipe (easily lasts our family of four 5-6 months using this method)
• homemade laundry booster – pin this blog post for later!

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