- Hey everyone, welcome to Yoga with Adriene, I'm Adriene,
this is Benji and we're in my kitchen today because
we're making a very special something.
So a lot of you have asked me what's my favorite way
to clean my yoga mat and so today I'm sharing my favorite
DIY yoga mat spray.
This is super simple, something you can make at home
and you can use it on your yoga mat to clean,
also really great as a room freshener.
So be fun to just kinda use your hands and
make something that make you feel good, right?
So my friends over at Whole Foods Market
invited me to come do some shopping,
so I went there earlier today and got some ingredients
to make the spray.
So thank you to Whole Foods and if you're interested
in seeing my video blog there,
go to the Whole Foods Market channel which I love,
they have awesome things, everything from
how to cut a mango to um,
stories about different vendors,
there's lots of cool and fun exciting things there
so check it out either way.
But for now we're gonna step into the kitchen
and make our spray.
Okey-doke, so let's get started, we're going to start by
introducing our ingredients so you're gonna need
some distilled water.
We're going to need our essential oils which are essential
to our (laughs) DIY mat spray,
today I went with a little tea tree oil,
some lemongrass,
eucalyptus,
and I went with a little lavender.
So these are the four that we're gonna play with today,
and I'll talk about how you can mix and match
different things too.
Definitely gonna need some witch hazel,
get an alcohol-free witch hazel.
I actually am a rebel today and chose one
with a little lavender, I've never tried that before so
I'm gonna try that but,
you can just get regular old alcohol=free witch hazel.
It's also really good on your face as an astringent
or a toner so that's a bonus.
Then you're gonna need some kind of spray bottle.
Because we're having fun and being a little
fancy today I went with a little blue one and then
I have a little brown one, but you can use any old
spray bottle, glass is better but if you have
a plastic one at home that works too.
Just baby steps, right, have a little fun,
using your hands, making your own spray.
And then last but not least,
got a little treat for you know who.
We'll see if he earns it here in a little bit.
Alright so let's make this thing.
We're actually gonna make two different versions so,
I'm just adjusting my two very favorite, yummy go-to
combinations but with aromatherapy and if you're
just getting into essential oils, which I encourage,
cause it's yummy,
you can mix and match and play with the ones that you like
I mean that's part of the fun of making it with your hands,
and it's quite simple.
I was kind of exploring the things that you like
and things that make you feel good and I honestly think
that when you do that it motivates you to come back
to your yoga mat, come back to the room that you
practice yoga in and that's good for us as well.
So we're gonna start with this brown bottle here,
filling it up three fourths of the way
with my distilled water.
I'm just doing this distilled water
cause it's clean.
Next I'm gonna fill about one fourth of the witch hazel.
So I just have the water and the witch hazel in that one
and smell this one.
Oh it smells so good, this is an experiment
buying this lavender one.
And I think it was a good one.
And then onto the tea tree so for this first one
we're going tea tree.
And this is so good.
We're just gonna go five drops here so,
right one,
two, three, four, five six, seven,
classic Adriene right there (laughs).
You can overdo it so you need to
kind of be careful but I also think that
throwing that out and starting over would be like
a total waste, right, this is supposed to be fun,
it's supposed to fun it feels good (sniffs),
it's already starting to feel amazing in here,
Oh yes.
Now I'm gonna go to the lemongrass for this combo.
Mm.
And it says inspiring on there so that's good,
we have our cleansing oil, the tea tree
and now our inspiring oil.
The lemongrass is so (sniffs)
so good, super uplifting.
And for this one,
I'm also gonna go five, this one's coming out
a little easier.
Then I take it, put it on,
and then I shake it.
It smells so good in here already, right (exhales)
The tea tree, the lemongrass smells awesome.
Shake it up and then
the last thing you do is you say a little prayer,
no just kidding, but,
definitely making it with love right,
the final ingredient is some lurve.
And then let's check it out and let's step back.
Oh yeah, that's awesome.
That's great, so our first one's done so that's great,
so that's my first go-to combo is the tea tree
and lemongrass.
Really uplifting, kind of invigurating.
Invigurating? No (laughs), invigorating.
This is a great one, this is gonna be great, awesome.
Okay, second go-to formula, just a little different.
But same steps, we'll do this in the little blue bottle,
this is great and so this is what they had in the market,
this is what I went with but again you can
use any spray bottle you like.
Alright so rolling through it again really fast for ya,
three fourths water, I used the distilled water.
Then onto the witch hazel.
This one has a nice squeeze bottle for me.
Great and this lavender witch hazel that I really like
good experiment,
is gonna go well with this one because
we are going to put the lavender in
but starting with the eucalyptus here just our
cleansing property so what I'm doing is I'm basically
picking one cleansing property oil, tea tree or eucalyptus,
and then one kind of aromatherapy that makes me feel good
so we have the lemongrass over there.
For this one, one, two, three, four, five.
That's good.
And I'll make sure the recipe for this is down below
but again don't be too hard on yourself if you get
seven drops instead of five.
You can make it work.
Then finally the lavender.
That never gets old, right, that scent.
To me anyway.
And, one, two, three, four, five, six.
One to grow on here.
Final step.
If you're already starting to feel a little stressed today
maybe just making the spray will start to change your day.
But if not, if that hasn't started to work already then
I think the shaking it will, right?
Let's get some of that pent up aggression out.
And the kitchen smells amazing, okay,
so let's take one step back and try this one out here.
Just make sure it smells balanced.
And awesome.
And it does (laughs).
It's so simple but it's so awesome.
So here we have our two sprays.
This one a little more invigorating.
This one a little more calming.
Both have cleansing properties,
these are my favorite go-to combos,
I hope you like them, let's go give 'em a try
in the yoga room.
Okay-doke so here we are in the yoga room, welcome.
We're gonna clean the mat and I'm gonna go ahead and use
this invigorating version to start,
and I'm gonna just use a little towel so,
you can use any sort of dish towel or wash cloth,
I usually use mine a couple times before I wash it,
you can also dampen it with a little bit of water
if you know that your mat is getting a little funky
and it needs some extra warshin'.
You can use paper towel, I don't recommend it,
I think you should find an old rag just something that
you don't mind getting your oils on and
keep it as your designated yoga mat cleaner.
So here we go.
Take it, give it a little shake again,
and I'm just gonna spray the mat here.
And I do one section at a time.
So moving with this mat kind of in the grains of the mat.
Alright and that's essentially it so,
that's essentially it.
Be sure to launder your rag regularly
so you don't wanna get stuck with a stinky rag.
Really you know, these things can just be like
little bottles of love you know you made them,
you made them with love and you can keep them as a
room spray so this eucalyptus lavender duo is great,
lives in my bedroom.
Just kidding, and it's so nice just as
aromatherapy for the room.
Also really great before practice to just kind of
cleanse the mind, get you ready for your yoga.
They make great gifts, super simple.
So that's all for today, let me know how it goes
when you make your spray in the comments down below.
Be sure to stick around this week for more free yoga,
thank you so much Whole Foods for letting me
come to the market and get all my ingredients,
and if you're interested in checking out
my visit to Whole Foods, I had a lot of fun this morning,
I invite you to go check out the Whole Foods Market
Youtube channel in addition to my trip to Whole Foods
and the blog of buying my ingredients,
there's a ton of videos there that you might find helpful
if you're interested in cooking or you wanna expand
your knowledge in the kitchen.
There's a lot of fun stuff over there that I really like
that I think you might too.
Alright, I think that's it for today,
I gotta give Benji his bone as promised,
and I'll see you on the mat.
Take good care.
Namaste.
(gentle acoustic guitar)