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- For potpourri or scented sachets: Dry lilac
- Why dry lilac flowers? uses
- Fragrant potpourri
- Make bath balls yourself
- Dry lilac flowers - That's how it works
- Tips
Lilac may e.g. be dried pressed
For potpourri or scented sachets: Dry lilac
Flowering lilac exudes a characteristic, wonderful scent. You can catch this and keep it for the rest of the year by drying the flowers. Dried lilac blossoms can be used, for example, for fragrance sachets, potpourris or even for scented homemade bathing balls or perfume.
Why dry lilac flowers? uses
First, an important note: lilac smells deliciously sweet, but it tastes very bitter. In addition, especially the flowers and the leaves are considered slightly toxic, so you should not use them for decorating food, for teas, lilac or the like. Fliederbeerensaft and lilac tea consists of the fruits or flowers of the black elderberry, which is called especially in the north of Germany as "lilac". For this reason, there are often confusions that lead to the typical lilac recipes of various websites. However, you can use dried lilac flowers wonderfully otherwise.
Fragrant potpourri
For example, the dried flowers of lilacs, roses and other fragrant aromatic plants can be used to create a wonderful potpourri that scents a room (for example the bathroom) or the linen closet. In addition to flowers can also spices, barks, woods or aromatic leaves use. Dried lilac flowers harmonize well with these ingredients:
The individual components must be well dried and then shredded. Store the fragrance mixture in a linen bag, which is tied with a twine.
Make bath balls yourself
Even homemade bath balls can be perfumed with dried lilac blossoms.
Ingredients:
250 grams of soda (no baking soda!)
125 grams of citric acid
60 grams of cornstarch
60 grams of coconut oil or another vegetable fat
dried lilac flowers, on request other fragrance flowers
possibly essential lilac oil
That's how it's done:
Dry lilac flowers - That's how it works
Lilac blossoms can be dried in a very simple way: Collect on a dry day (it must not have rained!) As early as possible in the morning suitable Blütenrispen. Then pluck the small flowers and spread them out on a dry dishcloth. Dry for a few days in a dark and warm place. Then put them in small jars with screw cap, then they last longer.
Tips
For a few days, put the fresh or dried lilac blossoms in oil, such as jojoba or another skin-friendly oil, to make a lilac-scented soap or cream.