Essential Oil Remedies to Help Protect Your Family From Germs

Four quick and easy essential oil remedies to help protect your family from germs, plus additional recipes for homemade disinfect and cleaning supplies using essential oils.

Hand Sanitizer with Immune Support*

The first of the four quick and easy essential oil remedies to help protect your family from germs is hand sanitizer using our Bandits Essential Oil Blend.

Ingredients:

5-7 drops Bandits Essential Oil Blend
1 tbsp witch Hazel
5 drops vitamin E
distilled water
spray bottle

Simply mix the ingredients above in a small bowl and add to your spray bottle. Voila!! Instant easy make at home sanitizer.

Additional hand sanitizer recipes for essential oil remedies to help protect your family can be found here.

Clove & Citrus Cleaning Wipes*

The second of the four quick and easy essential oil remedies to help protect your family from germs are clove bud and citrus cleaning wipes using orange, lemon and clove bud essential oils Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients:

roll of paper towel
2 cups distilled water
castile soap (or natural dish soap)
2 tbsp fractionated coconut oil
2 drops orange essential oil
2 drops lemon essential oil
2 drops clove bud essential oil

You will cut the paper towel in half and and place it in a container that will accommodate it. I used a 1 gallon pitcher but I am always on the look out at the dollar store for various containers that will hold the paper towel. Mix all the ingredients in a pour-able measuring cup, pour over the paper towel and let it get saturated. Once saturated you should be able to pull the cardboard center from the paper towel and you will have your own homemade disinfectant dispensable wipes.

Additional disinfectant wipes recipes for essential oil remedies to help protect your family can be found here.

Disinfectant Spray Cleaner & Anti-Bacterial Dish Soap*

The third of the four quick and easy essential oil remedies to help protect your family from germs is a two in one. Recipes follow for a disinfectant spray cleaner and an anti-bacterial dish soap.

Disinfect Spray Cleaner Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups distilled water
1/4 cup white vinegar*
1/4 cup (60%+ alcohol content) vodka or you can substitute rubbing alcohol, but it will have a more medicinal scent
15 drops of one of these – peppermint + lemon or try lavender + lemon are perfect in this recipe
glass spray bottle

Mix all ingredients in spray bottle, shake well and spray surfaces. Once you have sprayed the surface it’s good to let the spray sit on the surface for about 10 minutes to get rid of all the germs. Then us wipe dry. You don’t need to rinse with this recipe but always be sure to use separate cloth’s for different areas of the house so you don’t cross contaminate.

Caution: Vinegar should not be used on granite or marble because the acid may etch the surface.

Additional recipes for essential oil remedies to help protect your family can be found here.

Anti-Bacterial Grapefruit & Basil Essential Oil Dish Soap Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup filtered water or boiled and cooled water
1 cup unscented pure castile soap
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp fractionated coconut oil
12 drops grapefruit essential oil
8 drops basil essential oil
pint or quart size glass jar with pump

Add water, and castile soap to a large mixing bowl. Add in baking soda, fractionated coconut oil and your essential oils. Use a whisk and very gently mix solution so that baking soda is dissolved and everything is combined. Pour into a pint or quart glass jar and add a soap lid pump.

Sea Salt Hand Scrub with Grapefruit Essential Oil*

The final of our four quick and easy essential oil remedies to help protect your family from germs is for a refreshing grapefruit hand scrub.

Ingredients:

1 cup coarse sea salt
1/2 cup liquid coconut oil
5 to 7 drops grapefruit essential oil
10 oz glass container

Pour 1 cup of salt into the empty glass container. Pour 1/2 cup of coconut oil over the salt. Add 5 to 7 drops of grapefruit essential oil to mixture. Stir all the ingredients until they’re well combined. Seal the jar. It’s best to use this scrub only once or twice a week.

In addition here is a great recipe for a great wake up body salt scrub we think you will also enjoy. Find the recipe here.

Now you are ready to make your own cleaners. It’s so easy! You will save money and better than that, it’s a great way to help protect you and your family from germs.

*This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA and is not intended to diagnose, treat, or prevent any disease.