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How to Remove Paint Odors with Essential Oils

by Lindsay Ballard on January 22, 2014 9 Comments

How to remove paint odors with essential oils in just a few hours via MakelyHome.com

After we moved my daughter’s gorgeous, handmade dresser to her room, I noticed that it smelled.  The odor of the finishing products we used (both oil-based paint and wood stain) was pretty strong.  It wasn’t strong enough to keep us from using the dresser, but strong enough that I smelled it whenever I walked into the room.  I decided that I needed to figure out how to remove paint odors so that Emma’s room wouldn’t be so overpowering.

Then, my mind went to something new and bright and shiny, and I promptly forgot what I needed to figure out.  Story of my life!

A few weeks later, my friend Myra posted on Facebook that she painted her boys’ bedroom with low VOC paint and it still smelled bad.  To get rid of the paint smell, she opened the bedroom window and added a Young Living essential oil blend, called Purification, to the diffuser in their room with the door closed.  At the end of the day, the paint smell was completely gone – not masked by another smell, but G.O.N.E.

Wait, what?  There’s a magic oil that makes paint odors go away?

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Lindsay Ballard is a former college mascot turned political geek turned roller derby playing, DIY fanatic.

Lindsay chronicles her projects, design ideas, and lifestyle tips here at Makely, where she shares tutorials and inspiration. Her DIY designs are bold and graphic, while her spirit is fun and full of color.

Lindsay lives outside of Austin, Texas with her husband (Tom), children (Zack and Emma), and dogs (Duke and Jill). She plays roller derby for the Rockin' City Rollergirls out of Round Rock, Texas.


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