How to get rid of the stench of smoke

The smell of smoke is very annoying, especially when it comes to that generated by cigarettes, a wood-burning fireplace or bioethanol (alcohol), and grilled foods such as meat and fish. When it happens that smoke is trapped in your home, there are several techniques you can adopt, so in the following steps, there are some tips on how to get rid of the stench of smoke.

One of the best solutions to remove this bad smell, especially if it is impregnated on carpets, furniture, and walls, is to use ” hydrogen peroxide ” in the affected areas. If the room smells like cigarette smoke, everything from carpets to curtains should be dry cleaned and cleaned.

Before using products with chemical reagents, you need to vacuum up to any cigarette scraps by vacuuming the upholstery. In the next steps, we see other methods that can be applied to solve this problem.

A container filled with white vinegar put out of the room for a couple of nights increases the likelihood of removing the bad smell while using citrus peels (preferably oranges and lemons) and putting them in a container together with a little water and baking soda, you get an excellent odor eater, which lasts until it dries completely.

Even using coal, it is possible to achieve the desired goal; leave bowls of charcoal near the smelly area, and after about seven/eight days, you will notice that the coal has sucked up all the bad smell of stench emanating from the smoke.

If, on the other hand, half-consumed candles are used, we can recycle them, put them in a bain-marie, and enrich them with a few drops of essential oil or a vanilla sachet, and then compacting them together.

On the other hand, for the wick, it is possible to go to a wax shop and buy it by the meter, after which you get a smoke-eating candle, which makes the intense aroma prevail over that unpleasant aftertaste of smoke.

Finally, on the sidelines of this guide and about smoke-eating candles, it is worth mentioning the scented sticks that often happen to see in the souks of Arab countries or local markets. Instead of buying them, you can make them yourself using dry branches.

The latter just wet them in some perfumed products such as cinnamon or vanilla or buy natural licorice at the pharmacy, which you need to light and then let the smoke generated prevail over the smelly one.