Top Tips On How To Keep Your Bed And Mattress Smelling Fresh
Our beds are a breeding ground for bacteria and nasty smells that are hard to get rid of – especially in the hot humid weather!
As a rule, most advice says you should change your sheets once a week or once every two weeks. However, if you’re working full time or busy with a young family it can be difficult to find time.
Here, Envii, creators of responsibly sourced, eco-friendly home and garden care solutions, give their top tips on how to keep your mattress and bed smelling fresh and clean for much longer.
- Throw off the covers in the morning
Instead of making your bed as soon as you wake up, throw the sheets off the bed for half an hour or more. Letting air get to the mattress and sheets will help dry up the moisture and sweat naturally exuded by our bodies – especially when the weather is hot and humid. For even greater effect, hang the sheets near an open window.
- Sprinkle baking soda over the mattress
An age-old trick is to sprinkle baking soda on top of your mattress and vacuum off a few hours later. Baking soda attracts odours and removes them from the mattress, leaving it smelling fresh.
- Rotate your mattress every six to eight weeks
This is a great way to get a longer life cycle out of your mattress. Some mattress manufacturers have a suggested rotation schedule. However, if not, just flip it on every side and flip it over and start again.
- Wash sheets on the hottest setting
This is important as it will kill any bacteria or bed bugs still living in the sheets. Make sure to check the sheets washing labels so you don’t put in too hot.
- Use Envii Bed Fresh
Envii’s Bed Fresh is a super-effective deodoriser that tackles the source of bad odours in your bed sheets. Bed Fresh uses bacteria to digest the organics that your body naturally exudes in the night. These organics are what causes the bedding or mattress to smell, and therefore by digesting and removing them completely, your bed will be cleaner than ever before.
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