DIY Linen Sleep Spray (Sleepy Time Spray)
Fall asleep quickly and easily with this DIY Linen Sleepy Time Pillow Spray made with Lavender or doTERRA Serenity essential oils.
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Use this sleepy time spray on your sheets and pillow just before you crawl into bed. Your sheets and pillow will smell heavenly and will relax your mind and body to help you gently fall asleep.
This homemade Linen and Pillow sleep spray is super easy to make and only takes a couple minutes and 2 ingredients: essential oils and witch hazel.
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How to Make Essential Oil Linen and Pillow Spray for Sleep with Free Printable Directions
Kids love to use this pillow spray, too!
This pillow spray can be a wonderful way to help your child calm down at the end of the day.
Moms, you know what I’m talking about. This can be a game changer in that moment for them.
You can even put the power in their little hands, and let them spray down their sheets themselves.
Especially if you include them when making their own pillow linen spray.My children love this. I
Kids love to use essential oils!
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These Linen Sleep Sprays make a great gift!
Tie a cute twine bow around it and it makes a super cute gift that anyone would love to receive.
Make several and give them to teachers, hand them out at Christmas to friends, hairdressers, neighbors, etc
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Ingredients and Supplies for your DIY Linen Sleep Spray
These frosted glass spray bottles over at Amazon are a fave of mine that I use for many essential oil spray. They come in a pack of 2, so you’ll have an extra one for making a yummy room spray.
- ☆ DESIGN FEATURES – continuous fine mist spray, leak proof, classic gold metallic aluminum misters and dust caps, food-grade plastic straw, refillable solid glass bottle, uv protection
Witch Hazel
Witch Hazel will bind to the essential oils, and is how the oils will get dispersed into the air and onto the pillow or sheets. You know the oil saying “oil and water don’t mix”? That is true for essential oils! I have used water in a pinch, but Witch Hazel is a better choice.
Since your facial skin touches the pillow that you’re going to be spraying with this, you want to make sure you’re using something that won’t cause sensitivities or breakouts.
Witch Hazel is very safe and is actually a great tonic for skin, especially the face, so it’s perfectly fine to use as a spray that will be going on your pillow.
Make sure you use an all natural, pure, unscented Witch Hazel. This is the witch hazel I like to use:
- Contains 1 – 8 ounce botttle of wild crop, certified organic witch hazel toner, fragrance free
Essential Oils for your Sleepy Time Linen Spray
You can choose to use any number of essential oils that are great for sleep. My personal favorite is Lavender Essential Oil.
doTERRA Serenity Restful Blend is also very popular. It’s a blend of ALLLL the calming oils and has a touch of vanilla to it.
Essential oils that are great choices for sleep are:
Not sure what essential oil you should get or where to start?
Check out this article for a full list of which essential oils are best for sleep and how to use them.​
How to Make DIY Linen Spray with Essential Oils
Making your Linen Spray is super fast and easy.Once you’ve gathered your supplies, this spray takes under 5 minutes to make. Here’s the full directions on how to make DIY Linen Spray. Feel free to print them to have as a guide while making yours.
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DIY Linen & Pillow Spray with Lavender Essential Oil
Equipment
Ingredients
- 30-40 drops Lavender Essential Oil
- 4 oz Witch Hazel
- 1 4 oz Spray Bottle
Instructions
- Add the drops of Lavender or Serenity essential oil to the spray bottle
- Top off the spray bottle Witch Hazel.
- Add the Spray topper to the bottle, then gently shake to combine all ingredients
Notes
How to Use Your DIY Linen Spray
To use the DIY linen spray, just give the linen spray bottle a gentle shake to make sure everything is combined, then mist your comforter, blankets, sheets, even your pillow.
Sweet Dreams!
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Dawn Goehring
Dawn Goehring is the founder of Desert Naturals where she writes educational articles on essential oils, DIY’s on natural beauty products, homemade cleaners, and provides related essential oil accessories like planners, trackers, tshirts, and custom designed essential oil storage. She has been featured in articles on Porch.com, Redfin.com, MommyOnPurpose and more.
Dawn has earned an aromatherapist degree and has earned a doTERRA essential oil specialist certification which is a fancy way of saying she has learned a lot about the chemistry of essential oils and how they work in the body.
Does this stain pillowcases? Have you used it on a silk pillowcase?