Eco-Friendly Air Freshener Brands To Naturally Scent Your Home
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Breathe easy with this guide to the best eco-friendly air freshener brands, which will banish bad odours but won’t fill your home with noxious chemicals.
Whilst nothing beats opening up your windows and letting a fresh breeze in to clear any stale or lingering smells, sometimes you might want something a little more to clear the air. Particularly if you live somewhere where your bathroom has no window, or you have a stinky shoe cupboard. Sometimes you do need a little something extra to freshen things up a bit.
Before you reach for that can of air freshener under your sink, take heed. Many conventional air fresheners do contain a litany of dubious ingredients. In fact, public health researchers have found that a chemical compound found in many air fresheners – as well as toilet cleaners, mothballs and other heavily scented products – may be harmful to our lungs.
The good news for your nose (and lungs) is that there are many eco-friendly air freshener brands out there. These can help to mask or remove bad odours naturally without harmful ingredients. I’ve rounded up my favourites for you to help you out!
The Eco-Friendly Air Freshener Brands To Know
Here are some top natural picks to try in your home – including the plastic-free options:
Upcircle
Upcircle (£9.99 for 50 ml) is a great option if you are looking to tackle waste – both ingredient and packaging waste.
This pioneering brand takes waste items and turns them into something new. In the case of this room mist, it’s made from grapefruit water that’s surplus to requirements from the food and drinks industry. It’s also scented with pure essential oils to help make your home smell amazing.
Like all Upcircle products, the spray is certified vegan and cruelty-free. It’s also formulated without SLS, SLEs, parabens, mineral oil, phthalates, parfum and sulfates.
What I also love is that it comes in a glass bottle. The atomiser is obviously plastic (there’s no getting around that). However, if you choose to reorder, you can save the pump from your first bottle and select the next bottle to come with an aluminium cap. This makes all future orders completely plastic-free.
Fais Botanicals
Naturally refresh your home and textiles with Fais home and linen mist (£12.50 for 50 ml at Etsy).
These essential-oil based scents are hand-blended in small batches in the Fais studio in London. There’s a lovely variety of blends to choose from, depending on the mood you want to create in your home. These include relaxing ylang-ylang, bergamot and cedarwood; refreshing geranium, lemon and clary sage; and energising sweet orange, palmarosa, and rosemary.
Thet are all vegan and cruelty-free and, the spray comes in an amber glass bottle, which can be reused or recycled when you are done.
Waft
Waft (£6.49 for a 100 ml bottle at Ethical Superstore or Big Green Smile) is a more budget-friendly brand of eco-friendly air freshener for a sustainably fragranced home.
Made in the UK from pure and organic essential oil blends, Waft comes in a variety of delicious natural scents. These include Lemongrass, Lavender, Peppermint, Geranium, Orange and Rose. In fact, each air freshener is made from 98.5% organic ingredients.
Whilst not plastic-free, the plastic bottles are fully recyclable. And sustainability-wise, the brand has a lot going for it. Aerosol-free, vegan-friendly, cruelty-free, palm oil-free, and free of genetically modified organisms, it’s clear that Waft has put a great deal of work into minimising its environmental footprint.
Sodasan
Sodasan’s organic air freshener (£8.75 for 50 ml from Big Green Smile) is another room spray to check out. Made from sustainable and eco-friendly ingredients, this air freshener is 96% organic in origin.
Coming in a variety of scents – including lavender, fresh orange, and woody-smelling sandal – these essential oil blends are a great way to naturally cover bad odours in your home.
This vegan-friendly blend is also free from synthetic nasties. These include dyes, preservatives, synthetic fragrances, petrochemicals, microplastics, and genetically modified organisms.
What’s more, it comes in a recyclable glass bottle and a plastic-free beech wood cap.
Bramley
Finally, Bramley’s air freshener (£18 for 100 ml at Not On The High Street) is scented with delicious sweet orange, geranium, and spearmint essential oils, for a natural and refreshing-smelling scent, without any toxic chemicals.
Made from 100% naturally derived ingredients in the UK, this room spray is vegan-friendly and cruelty-free. It also comes in a recyclable glass bottle, making it plastic-free apart from the atomiser.
More Sustainable Home Fragrance Options
Looking for more recommendations? Do also check out my guide to the best organic reed diffusers and the best soy candles, if you are looking for other ways to naturally scent your home.
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