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How to Keep Your Bathroom Smelling Fresh

9 Best Ways to Keep Your Bathroom Smelling Fresh

Discover simple tips on how to keep your bathroom smelling fresh and amazing. Most of these ideas are inexpensive (some won’t even cost you a dime) and are easy to do.

Even the most frequently cleaned bathrooms can smell less than fresh.

This may be due to a variety of reasons including poor ventilation, the constantly damp conditions, discarded damp and used towels and the fact that your bathroom is the place where you deposit your body’s waste.

All these factors can combine into a very unpleasant smell. However, there are some simple tips and hacks that you can use to keep your bathroom smelling fresher and cleaner.

How to keep your bathroom smelling fresh

Here are some simple tips that you may find helpful.

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#1. Keep it Clean

Keeping your bathroom clean is one of the best ways to keep it smelling good!

We all love a clean bathroom (who wouldn’t), meaning that we all hate a dirty stinky bathroom. But the truth is, only a few of us actually enjoy doing the cleaning.

Whether you enjoy cleaning the bathroom or not, this is one chore we can’t simply avoid. If we want it clean, we should be ready to do the cleaning.

I don’t know about you, but I love the smell of a freshly cleaned bathroom! So, even though cleaning the bathroom is not my favorite chore, I just do it.

Here are some bathroom cleaning tips to help you keep your bathroom clean all the time. Deep cleaning your bathroom at least once a month will also be helpful.

#2. Open the Window

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If the weather permits, simply opening a window can allow fresh air to enter your bathroom, thus improving the smell immediately.

If you have a fan that will fit in the bathroom window you can place the fan in the window backwards and pull those funky odors out of the room leaving a fresher scent behind.

#3. Automatic Toilet Cleaning Products

Clean toilets smell fresher than unclean toilets. So having an automatic toilet-cleaning product that cleans and deodorizes your toilet every time you flush will help keep your bathroom smelling fresh all the time.

This helps to kill those toilet odors as soon as you flush. There are also deodorizing products that fit into your toilets tank and fill the bowl with odor eliminating fragrance as you flush.

#4. Odor Eating Toilet Sprays

Another way to keep your bathroom fresher is to eliminate waste odors as they happen. There are a number of pooh odor-eating sprays you spray in the toilet before using.

These sprays form a film on the water that captures the odor right in the bowl and prevents it from spreading into the air in your bathroom. One of the most popular pooh sprays is Poo-Pourri.

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#5. Invest in a Small Dehumidifier

Placing a small dehumidifier in your bathroom helps to remove the dampness from the air. Dehumidifying the air will help remove some of the stale smells that bathrooms tend to hang on to.

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You may also want to read this article on choosing the best bathroom dehumidifiers.

In addition, removing damp towels from your bathroom immediately after use will also help to eliminate some of the staleness that can add to those funky bathroom smells.

#6. Keep Your Tub and Sink Drains Clean and Odor Free

Your sink and bathtub drain can harbor odors that make your bathroom smell like a sewage dump.

Cleaning your tub and sink drains regularly can help reduce these odors and help your bathroom smell fresher and cleaner.

#7. Baking Soda

Baking Soda is a natural odor absorber, so why not take a pretty bowl and fill it with baking soda and sit it on a shelf or your sink cabinet.

Change the baking soda every month and rinse the old baking soda down the sink or tub drain to help kill the odors lingering there.

Baking soda is very cheap, yet it has a lot of uses around the home. Read this article to learn more about using baking soda for cleaning.

#8. Essential Oil/Fragrance Oil

Essential oils are a wonderful way to freshen the air of any room and just a couple drops of essential oils can help keep your bathroom smelling great.

Simply place two or three drops of essential oil inside your toilet paper roll each time you replace the roll. My favorite essential oils to use in the bathroom are lavender and eucalyptus.

You can also use a reed diffuser like this one to diffuse fragrance oils. Not only do these diffusers help to make your bathroom smell amazing but they also make great decorative pieces.

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#9. Air Fresheners

Automatic air fresheners will add a nice scent to your bathroom and will work well when combined with some of the other freshening tips contained in this article. However, keep in mind when used alone air fresheners simply cover up funky scents not eliminate them.

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How to Keep Your Bathroom Smelling Good – Conclusion

By employing some of these simple tips and hacks you can have your bathroom smelling good and fresh in no time at all.

Do you have any other tips on how to keep your bathroom smelling fresh? Leave your comment below.

How to make your bathroom smell good

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