Get Your Fall Fix with Fragrance-Free Products to Scent Your Home Naturally

With fall upon us, people tend to turn to cozy mode. From snuggling up in warm sweaters and blankets to outfitting our homes with soft lighting and seasonal scents, it’s like we’re predisposed to prep for a season of hibernation.

Many manufacturers capitalize on this feeling by pushing out products loaded with the “f word” — fragrance. However, for many reasons, fragrance free is the healthier way to go. Not to worry! There are still ways to enjoy the scents of the season without it.

Why Fragrance is Anything but Festive

The ingredient “fragrance” (sometimes listed on product labels as perfume, parfum, or cologne) may be composed of any number of undisclosed chemicals. Those ingredients don’t have to be divulged on product labels because companies are legally allowed to use the term “fragrance” to protect their trade secrets instead of telling customers what’s really in their products.

Some of the chemicals commonly found in fragrance are on our ingredients to avoid list, including:

• • Phthalates: linked with birth defects, breast cancer, diabetes, obesity, autism, and ADHD
  • Parabens: endocrine disruptors, which mimic estrogen, linked with breast cancer, allergic reactions, and skin rashes
  • Formaldehyde releasers: linked with cancer, skin irritation, allergic reactions, joint pain, headaches, immune dysfunction, and menstrual disorders

Where Do Safe Scents Come From?

Most non-toxic scents come from plant extracts, essential oils, and botanicals. These may be obtained through steam distillation of flowers, leaves, or bark, cold pressing of peels, or solvent extraction of delicate botanicals.

5 Suggestions for Scenting Your Home Naturally

1. 1. Room sprays. Safely refresh any area of your home with non-toxic room sprays. Look for products with a simple, complete ingredient list and scents that come from natural essential oils and fruit or plant extracts. And always be sure to steer clear of sprays in aerosol cans. Although it’s an unintended ingredient, so it won’t show up on ingredient labels, benzene is a common contaminant found in aerosol products, and it’s been linked to an increased risk of developing cancer.
   2. Essential oils. Diffusing essential oils has many benefits throughout the year but can be especially welcoming during the holiday season. In addition to providing a natural scent, essential oils can help relieve stress, improve your mood, eliminate odors, and clear away a feeling of stuffiness in the air. Choose a ready-made blend or mix and match to create a new scent. Start with only a couple of drops of each of your favorite essential oils until you find the blend and strength that suits you. Try 2 drops each of lemon, peppermint, and lavender with 100ml of water for a calm and cozy vibe.
   3. Stovetop simmer. If you don’t have an essential oil diffuser, you can simmer your essential oils and water in a small pot on low heat on your stovetop or go really old school with a mix of water, apple slices, cinnamon sticks, and a dash of vanilla to create a cozy homemade scent.
   4. Wax melts. Instead of burning candles and risking exposure to carcinogens emitted from ingredients in the wax and/or wick, use non-toxic wax melts in your favorite warmer to release safe scents into your home. While many wax melt manufacturers make their products with paraffin or palm wax, which are inexpensive, toxic ingredients that are known to be able to hold more toxic fragrance, Pure Haven’s wax melts are made with safe, eco-friendly soy wax and scented with natural essential oils and extracts.
   5. Hand soaps and lotions. Set your sinks up with scents for your family and guests to enjoy. Pair non-toxic hand soap in reusable bottles with hand lotion (sweet pear and sweet peppermint are great seasonal options) or hand cream (try warm chai and lavender and myrrh).

Simple Scents, Transparent Ingredients

The safest way to prep your home for the season is to choose naturally scented products. When a manufacturer has nothing to hide, they’re transparent about their ingredients, listing each one, as well as any sub-ingredients, on every product label. When you see “fragrance,” you know the manufacturer is not being transparent with its customers.

Shop Worry-Free with Pure Haven

When you trust the manufacturer, you know you can trust their entire product offering. Pure Haven is the leading manufacturer of guaranteed toxin-free products, trusted by families across the United States to provide safe, effective products. Here’s what sets Pure Haven apart:

• • We source ingredients, formulate, and manufacture than 95% of our products in our own USDA Certified Organic facility in the United States. Everything is freshly produced in small batches.
  • We created Pure Protect, the world’s first non-toxic preservation system, using zero harmful chemicals to preserve our products, giving them a reasonable shelf life. No other company is doing this.
  • We are committed to minimizing our impact on the environment. Every ingredient we use is safe for you, your family, and the planet, and we choose product packaging that optimizes sustainability, environmental impact, and product performance.
  • We are the only company in the United States committed to providing a full line of personal care and home products that truly work better than their toxic counterparts.
  • We offer a 60-day empty bottle guarantee. If you aren’t completely satisfied after 60 days, send the product back (you pay delivery fees).

Get Your Fall Fix

Shop Pure Haven’s complete line of personal care and household products, including our distinctive holiday collection featuring seasonal scents like warm chai, sweet pear, sweet coconut vanilla, and sweet peppermint vanilla, available for a limited time only. Our products are perfect for refreshing and scenting your home for the season, the holidays, and all year long.