I had seen these Air Fresheners made by a few people, so just had to try it!
I was amazed at how fast they came together and how the water dissolved into the crystals.
They turned out SO cute and were very inexpensive to make.
I figured it out and it cost about 90 cents a piece to make these.
Aside from the savings over commercial air fresheners,
it also gives me more piece of mind than those ones that you plug into the power socket.
I always worry about them drying out and starting a fire or something crazy,
bumping up my buildings insurance for the next year!
Materials Needed:
- 4 ounce quilted crystal jelly jars (or a jar of your size)
- Liquid Potpourri in your choice of a smell
- Moisturing Plus Watering
- Crystals made by Shultz
- Small jar or measuring cup to mix items in
- Water
- Spoon for mixing
Directions:
First open your box of jars, and reverse the lids... this way you have a white lid showing and not the flowered side.
Next dump two scoops (scoop comes with it) of the crystals into each jar.
I then used a stage 3 baby food jar (because I had it on hand, but any jar could be used) and put about 1/3 of water in the jar,
then filled it with liquid potpourri.
(I was able to make two air freshners per baby food jar of mixture.)
Next I poured half the liquid mixture into one quilted jar and half into another.
I then added 2 more scoops of the crystals.
Waited about 20-30 seconds and mixed it a bit as it formed into a gel.
I patted it down with the spoon and put the cover on it because I am saving these for my craft show. However, if I was going to use it, I would have covered with a cloth or lace so that the aroma could come out.
The First one is Apple / Cinnamon.
This second one is Honeysuckle.
The potpourri and liquid crystals that I used .
I found the Potpourri in the crafts section, and the crystals in the House plant section of Wal-Mart. The Potpourri was $1.87 a bottle and the crystals were on sale for $7, but normally are $7.97. I was able to make 24, 4 ounce jars from the one container of crystals, and you can see how much potpourri I have left over... enough to make another 24 at least
