Removing Scents from Your Home

I am chemical sensitive to perfumes, cigarettes, gasoline, etc. Sometimes we have guests come over with high perfume scents and when they leave the scent does not.

Other situations would be: purchasing used furniture that has old moldy scent or cigarette/cigar smoke odor. One thing that seems to work the best for me is to use coffee grounds. You can purchase the cheapest coffee for this so it's an inexpensive trick. You just put the grounds in a brown paper bag or staple them up in coffee filters or for a little more money/convenience you can purchase the pre-packed coffee filters.

Then you just set them around where the odors are. It can take a day or so to remove the odor completely, but in most cases you can at least handle the area within a short period of time. If a couch/chair is strong with scent, set the coffee packages right on the seating area for a day or so. Note: we had an old (very attractive) antique couch that I could not sit on without having an asthma attack, but after setting coffee grounds on it for three days, in this case I set thin paper plates all over it and put about 1/4 cup of grounds on each plate, but afterwards I could sleep on it.

The car can be a tough one if you have a scented passenger, but a bag of coffee grounds works well to rid the scent in a short period of time due to the smaller area. In fact, unless you do not like the scent of coffee, you can just keep a bag in the back seat which helps to handle the scented passenger while they are with you, instead of having to put on a face mask.

I hope this trick help many of you out.