If you want your home to feel truly polished and luxurious, you’ll need to know how to keep your bathroom smelling fresh.
Your bathroom is meant to be a relaxing safe haven where you can enjoy a bubble bath, pamper yourself with face masks, and come out feeling refreshed and cleansed…
But it’s hard to do that if there’s strong odours or your bathroom smells damp!
So if you want your bathroom to feel like a calming oasis, here are our top tips on how to keep your bathroom smelling fresh.
Harnessing the Power of Natural Scents: Essential Oils and More
Essential oils are one of the best-kept cleaning secrets, because they’re relatively inexpensive and very versatile.
This makes them fantastic options for natural bathroom fresheners.
Here are a few handy essential oil hacks recommended by professional domestic cleaners:
How to Use Essential Oils to Keep Your Bathroom Smelling Fresh
- It’s a good idea to choose refreshing and clean scents that can set the tone for your bathroom. Lavender, eucalyptus, peppermint, lemon, tea tree, and citrus blends are all great options!
- Essential oils can be used with an electronic or reed diffuser to permeate the air with a lovely scent.
- Fill a spray bottle with water and several drops of your chosen oil to create a custom room spray.
- Pop a few drops of essential oil onto the cardboard tube inside the toilet roll for a hidden source of freshness.
- To eliminate odour from bathroom bins, apply a few drops of your essential oil to a cotton ball or tissue and place it in the bottom of a bin.
- You could even put the cotton balls or tissues in hidden spots around the bathroom such as behind the toilet, in drawers and cupboards, or on a shelf.
- Create your own potpourri by mixing dried flowers, herbs, and citrus peels with a few drops of essential oil. Place the mixture in a decorative bowl in your bathroom.
Preventive Measures: Regular Maintenance for a Smell-Free Bathroom
To prevent odours in your bathroom, it’s important to make sure you’re regularly deep cleaning your bathroom.
After all, the best offence is a good defence!
Empty the bathroom bins on a regular basis, disinfect surfaces, and make sure you’re cleaning soap scum and limescale to avoid build-up.
We all know the toilet can be a major source of smell, so it’s important to make sure your toilet bowl is regularly and thoroughly cleaned.
It’s important to also stay on top of mold, mildew, and dampness that can occur in your bathroom.
Using ventilation fans or opening windows can reduce some of the humidity in your bathroom, which, left unchecked, can cause mould to grow.
Drying the shower walls and floor after use is another great tactic to avoid that damp smell that can linger in bathrooms.
And finally, make sure your towels, bathmats, and shower curtains are being washed weekly – you’d be surprised at how dirty they can get in the process of getting you clean!
Unexpected Tricks to Keep Your Bathroom Smelling Amazing: TikTok Tips Revealed
TikTok has become a goldmine of hacks, advice, and DIY cleaning hacks.
Because millions of people can upload videos everyday, they’re eager to share the handy tips and tricks they’ve learned that make life easier.
Needless to say, a simple search on TikTok reveals thousands of unexpected hacks for maintaining a fresh bathroom.
TikTok Cleaning Hacks for a Nice Smelling Bathroom
- Pour a cup of laundry or fabric softener into your toilet tank so that every time you flush, the pleasant aroma is released.
- You could also use white vinegar or a disinfectant liquid for a more sanitising effect.
- Plants like aloe vera or snake plants are known for their air-purifying properties. Not only do they look nice and add a pop of colour, but they can filter out bad odours in the air.
- Keep a small jar of baking soda or activated charcoal on a shelf to absorb and neutralise unpleasant smells in the air.
- You could also fill a jar with rice and add a few drops of essential oil, or fill with some dried flowers. The rice can absorb excess humidity and dampness, while the essential oil or dried flowers will omit lovely scents.
So, now you have a tonne of tools, tips, and tricks at your disposal and know exactly how to keep your bathroom smelling fresh!
Your guests will be impressed at your cleaning prowess, and you’ll be able to enjoy a relaxing soak in your new calming oasis.
And if you’d rather outsource the cleaning to the experts, you can always book with one of our Wecasa pros.
Wecasa can connect you with local professional domestic cleaners who will have your bathroom looking, feeling, and smelling clean in no time.
