There are several ways you can use a variety of natural, simple materials and chemicals to make your garbage disposal emit olfactory pleasures. It’s relatively simple, too, but in this article, we will uncover some of the most amazingly simple solutions to fixing the horrid odors of the typical garbage disposal. One must follow specific procedures according to the capabilities of one’s garbage disposal unit in this case. We will also cover what technique would suit all kinds of garbage disposal units and which ones are ideal for the comparatively more robust ones.

Garbage disposal bombs used to freshen your garbage disposal:

Some of the simplest ways are best for all garbage disposal units. You can use easily obtained generic household items to freshen your garbage disposal in mere minutes. Take baking soda, for example:

If you remember how to use baking soda to make a science volcano, you have the right idea. This is going to be easy for you. The best thing about this technique is that it would work with almost every machine. This alone makes it the second easiest way to freshen your garbage disposal. The basic idea here is to take your selection of natural oils or essences and knead the baking soda into small flaky balls.

• 1 1/2 cups baking soda
• 1 tsp dishwashing liquid
• 2 tsp sea salt
• 20-50 drops of essential oils
• 1/4 cup – 1/2 cup of water

Mix the baking soda with the dishwashing liquid and sea salt together in a mixing bowl until it takes a milky paste. Add the essential oils as desired should be added at this stage and should be used to ensure the essence is strong.

You can either use an ice-cream scooper or your hands to then shape it into small round balls then freely place them on a sheet of wax paper on a cookie sheet to dry out and prepare.  Allow these balls to breathe and to dry for a few minutes until dry and firm/flaky, after which they would be ready to use/ alternatively, there is a faster method that would be more suitable. These are supposed to be slightly bigger than a cherry, and you are supposed to leave them out to dry in the air.

The alternative method here would be to shape the balls and quickly place them in the freezer. This would then ensure that the freezer takes shape out of the balls and turns them into flaky blobs. These blobs can then be placed on top of the said machine and turn the pressure of the hot water to a minimum. This would make sure the bombs disintegrate and stick to the sides of the disposal unit’s drain then you would be required to add vinegar due to its disinfectant qualities. This would then react with the fragrance bombs and disinfect the entire drain. If you shut off the water, you can see the bubbles and suds forming on top of the gutter.

But with the original methods, one has to always be careful in this technique not to use too much dishwasher, salt, or essence. Therefore, it is essential to use just enough essence or oil to stick the baking soda together. And just enough to let the vinegar react to it appropriately so the suds can clean places extremely hard to reach. The essences here are supposed to enrich the smells.

If you want to make your garbage disposal a freshened garbage disposal quickly, just pop a couple of these down the disposal. Now run some cold water and turn on your garbage disposal for approximately 20-30 seconds to freshen garbage disposal almost instantly. They can also be combined as an alternating or simultaneous combination with the vinegar and citrus cubes below for extra disinfecting.

Oranges/ Lemons/ Limes used to freshen your garbage disposal:

Another common means to freshen the garbage disposal can be to use peels and used limes, and lemons. Even lemons and limes that are starting to go bad can be used with vinegar. Citrus fruits are usually one of the easiest solutions to your inquisition about “how to freshen garbage disposal.” Even smaller fruits can be used if you are otherwise seeing it being wasted.

• Vinegar
• Citrus Peels (Lemons, Oranges, Limes, Etc.)
• Citrus Juice

Now here you would be required to take your time and spread out a reasonable amount of diced or chopped chunks of citrus peels. Place them carefully into an ice cube tray/rack and carefully pour out the vinegar till each portion fills up with vinegar; this is done because of the bleaching and corrosive properties of vinegar that tend to extract the essence and juices out of fruits simply by burning off the layer and reacting with it.

If there are extra pieces of lemon or orange around, one would be smart to utilize them in a way that will squeeze the leftover juice into the trays as well, creating an extra aromatic combination.  Freeze this concoction until it solidifies.  This is one of the easiest ways to freshen your garbage disposal unit with minimal effort as once you’ve made your ice cubes, you can store them to use them however you please.

They can be stored over long durations of time with ease if needed. The idea is to have these little iced miracles drop into any garbage disposal unit that would tend to employ a metal blade or two to do the gnashing that a garbage disposal is kept and maintained for. The blades would have to run with hot water for a few minutes before the ice fragrance bomb is dropped into the garbage disposal.

Once you have dropped the cube, it will get crushed by the disposal blades while it melts, enabling it to spread more evenly. This ensures the garbage disposal is cleaned by the solid ice while the liquid fragrances are spread all over the unit, making it give off the essence of the fruits you have chosen along with the citrus smell that would ensure anyone of a disinfected kitchen.

Iced-frozen fruit peels and frozen tea used to create essence ice cubes which can be used to freshen garbage disposal:

Another rather lesser-known fact is that you can develop your scents with the same idea, which would be to fill out an ice rack with tea and the peel or chunks of fruit you desire the smell to be like. You cannot use tea alone because of the weak smell, and this is just primary dried tea leaves.

• Teabags (used or otherwise)
• Vinegar
• Peels and Chunks of different fruits of your choosing fruits that can overpower the smell of vinegar mainly
• Citrus juice
• Water

Now you are supposed to take the water and tea and boil it with the fruit chunks, peels, and citrus juice. In other words, you would be required to make a mixture of water, tea, and the citrus juice of your choosing. Once the water and juice start to change color, you are supposed to add the chunks of fruits that are left behind and stew for a couple of minutes.

After the mixture starts to boil, you are supposed to take it off the stove and cool for a few minutes. In the meantime, what can be done to freshen your garbage disposal is that you can take the vinegar and fill half the ice rack with it and the tea bags. Then add the citrus peel. Now add the cooled tea mixture to the vinegar so it can extract the smell as well as burn off a layer or two off the peel of the fruit. After this, one has to place the ice rack to freeze, which may take up to an hour if you have a powerful freezer.

This is one of the easiest ways to freshen your garbage disposal unit with minimal effort as once you’ve made your ice cubes, you can store them to use them however you please. They can be stored over long durations of time with ease and can retain their potency through years, even if needed. The idea is to have these little iced miracles drop into any garbage disposal unit with a metal blade. The blades would have to run with hot water for a few minutes before the ice fragrance bomb is dropped into the garbage disposal.

Once you have dropped the cube, it will get crushed by the disposal blades while it melts, enabling it to spread more evenly. This ensures that solid ice cleans the garbage disposal. At the same time, the liquid fragrances are spread all over the unit, making it give off a roasted morning tea essence kind of like a potpourri.

One non-Natural way used to freshen your garbage disposal quite popularly is Plink.

“Plink Your Sink” is a relatively common expression in the United States of America, but what is Plink? And how does one freshen garbage disposal with Plink, you may wonder. It is a relatively simple process. It is a collection of chemicals and fragrances packed into a small biodegradable gel shell. It was specifically designed to freshen the entire kitchen via the garbage disposal and its blades.

The Xion Lab Disposal Drain Cleaner & Deodorizer cleaner pill was designed to release the chemicals after the outer decomposable layer dissolves with the use of hot water. This ends up ensuring the chemical is only released in a drain or against the blades in the garbage disposal unit. It is designed to react to hot water; therefore it is necessary to run the hot water before plinking your sink to freshen your garbage disposal unit.

Another key element here is that:

1. Run disposal with a full stream of water for one minute to clear it of any food scraps.
2. Turn off disposal and reduce water to a slow stream (pencil width).
3. PLINK YOUR SINK by dropping in one Plink ball and turning on the disposal for 15 seconds.
4. Turn off disposal and water.

Conclusively, we can see there are many solutions to freshen your garbage disposal unit. It is easy and doable. A little study in basic biology and chemistry can give one an excellent understanding of how things can be combined. Along with physics, one can truly work their entire garbage disposal unit in a fashion that it always dispenses the lightest, most alluring fragrances. It is just a matter of understanding how one tends to work through problems. The ideal way to freshen your garbage disposal unit is to use ice cubes, which are simply easy to make and very useful.

But if your garbage disposal unit is incapable of handling that level of stress, it would be wisest for you to rely on the baking soda fragrance bombs, which are a rather smart work of science.. Indeed, innovation finds its way and always makes an impact on the work needed to be sorted. Necessity truly is the mother of invention and, in this case, innovation.

Enjoy these beautiful solutions at your ease. Even the ice cube solution can be made easy to workaround. It’s just a matter of thinking, so if you can manage to make it into small balls, they can be run under hot water a couple of seconds before the garbage disposal unit would be turned on, which would allow the hot water to shatter and melt parts of the ice allowing for an easy break down as well as a responsible solution without harming your freshened garbage disposal unit.