Dear fellow yogis, it is time we clean our mats. Reaching Samadhi is difficult enough - a stinky mat doesn’t help for sure ;-).
No matter what style of yoga, how often and where you practice your mat needs to be cleaned regularly. I used to buy mat cleaners and we also wanted to provide our students at the SurfnYoga House with a spray to clean their mats and we soon found out that buying it on a regular basis is just too expensive on the long run.
So I started to search for recipes to make my own mat spray, tired (and failed) a bit and finally made one that really works for me.
It saves money and moreover it is a lot of fun to experiment with different combinations of essential oils. (Buying the ingredients - especially the essentials oils - might be a bit pricey but you will go a long way with a small bottle of oil since you will only use a few drops for each bottle of mat spray.)
¾ cup distilled water
¼ cup alcohol witch hazel
5 drops Lavendar oil
3 drops Tea Tree oil
1 pich of love (very important, don't skip that one! ;-) )
1 spray bottle
-> mix everything together and put it into the spray bottle.
You can use other essential oils instead of the lavender oil - i also made one with lemon oil instead of the lavendar and it turned out really good. I recommend keeping the tea tree oil in the mix because of its antibacterial and antifungal properties.
Try it and let me know what you think.
