Stabilized flowers - chic decor. How to stabilize flowers yourself

Stabilized are the flowers that have undergone special treatment with special chemical compounds. Such plants are able to maintain their original fresh appearance for a very long time.

Unlike compositions made from dried flowers, such bouquets do not crumble, and, therefore, do not create additional hassle in terms of cleaning the room. All this makes them unusually popular with modern housewives. Embalmed, the same indoor plants look quite natural and can decorate the room no worse than their living "fellow".

In this regard, many lovers of floral decorations raise the question of how to stabilize flowers themselves.

About this, as well as how to properly care for such decoration and where it can be used, let's talk further in the article.

Benefits of using stabilized plants as decorations

The main advantages of using such colors include:

1. Long shelf life. A bouquet, embalmed with the use of a special liquid, can stand up to six months. If we talk about branches and leaves, they keep the fresh appearance up to 3 years. Small as domestic shrubs and trees in tubs can decorate the room up to seven years.
2. Stabilized flowers look natural and simply unusually beautiful.
3. There is no need to care for a bouquet or a plant. In addition, in this case there is absolutely no seasonality factor.
4. Harmless to human health and pets.
5. Versatility in use. Stabilized plants are able to revitalize the interior of both the living quarters, and the office or store. Among other things, they can become a good decoration of the festive table.

How to properly care for stabilized plants

Stabilized flowers do not tolerate moisture. Therefore, it is better not to use such decor in baths, saunas, bathrooms and other similar premises. Also, you need to make sure that during the wet cleaning, no droplets of moisture get on the leaves and petals. Not very fond of such representatives of fauna and direct sunlight. In this case, they can simply fade.

How to make stabilized flowers with your own hands

Unfortunately, at home, it's almost impossible to make the same beautiful compositions that can stand for years, compositions that can be seen in specialized stores.
However, making such a bouquet, which will please the eye with its freshness throughout the winter, is quite a feasible task. To do this, you need to use a very simple method of embalming. So, making a stabilized bouquet step by step:

1. Freshly cut flowers are slightly dried.
2. A mixture of water and glycerin is prepared (1: 1).
3. The tip of the stem is cut off from below at the flowers.
4. Prepared in this way the stems are placed in a container with glycerine solution poured into it.

During the first week, the tips of the stems must be cut daily. Keep the plants in solution for about 14 days.

Another technique

To make the stabilized flowers it is possible and a little in another way. In this case, glycerin and water are also used, but the latter is taken a little more (in the ratio 1: 2). Plants are immersed in the resulting solution completely. To produce canned bouquets in this way, you need to take enough hot water (about 70 ^° C). To sustain plants in such a solution is necessary for 2-3 weeks. After the embalming process, the bouquet should be dried.

Preservation of plants using paraffin

Keep the flowers fresh for a long time you can, using for their conservation of ordinary paraffin. In particular, this method is suitable for large buds. Molten paraffin is introduced into the flower tissue using a conventional medical syringe with the needle removed from it (through the hollow stem, inside the basket).

Basic methods of stabilization in industrial conditions

In industrial conditions, stabilized flowers are produced using two methods:

1. Buds are hand-picked and placed in a mixture of alcohol and other chemicals. After the plants have undergone such processing, they are dyed and return them softness and flexibility in special ways.
2. At the growth stage, the flowers are watered not with water, but with a special embalming composition. In the end, an absolutely naturally looking plant that can maintain its "freshness" for an unusually long time is obtained. This technique allows you to get a few more beautiful plants than the first.

Today many people would like to see in their apartment such decor as stabilized flowers. How to make such beauty with our own hands, we found out above. There are several ways, and all of them are not too complicated. If you want to make this kind of decor, you can just a couple of weeks.