Here’s how to remove musty smell from furniture

For this, you will need 3 liters of water, 2 teaspoons of baking soda and approximately 30 g of Marseille soap flakes (approximately 30 g of shavings). Mix everything and pass this preparation on the internal surfaces with a soft sponge.

Then dry with a microfiber cloth.

Clean wooden furniture
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Clean wooden furniture – Source: spm
To rejuvenate the wood
To effectively eliminate musty odors, you will however need to nourish the wood in order to rejuvenate it. For this you can use a conditioner which acts as an infallible remedy to give a second life to the wood.

Take a medium sized bowl and pour half a glass of olive oil into it. Then add 10 grams of solid Castile soap, the juice of half a lemon and 5 to 6 drops of the essential oil of your choice.

Spread the conditioner on the surface using a brush. If you wish, you can also apply it to the exterior wood to nourish it and make it shine.

Anti-odor tips
Even if you have cleaned your furniture well and revived the wood, the smell can return after a few weeks or months. This factor essentially depends on the age of the wood.

You can try to eliminate bad odors by inserting a DIY air freshener or odor absorber inside the furniture.

Scented sachets
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Scented sachets – Source: spm
· Scented sachets
Take a small, medium-sized fabric bag and fill it with dried orange peels, dried rose petals and cinnamon sticks. Also put a little cotton soaked in a scented essential oil: the most suitable are those with lavender and sandalwood.

Then, place the bag in a corner of your furniture. In a few hours, it will have already filled the entire interior space with a sweet and intoxicating scent.

· An odor-absorbing bowl
In addition to scented sachets, you can also put a System D odor absorber in your furniture: baking soda.

Take a small bowl and pour 3 to 4 tablespoons of this powder into it. This product has a very high absorbency and will free furniture from the smell of old wood.

If you like, you can drizzle a few drops of scented essential oil over the baking soda to give off a wonderful scent.

If in addition to the smell of old wood, there is also a musty smell in your furniture, try these other remedies!