11 Homemade Natural Cleaning Products – DIY Recipes & Uses
What You Need:
Mix 1/4 cup baking soda and 1 cup vinegar, pour into basin and let it set for a few minutes. Scrub with brush and rinse. A mixture of borax (2 parts) and lemon juice (one part) will also work. For rust stains, spray with vinegar and leave overnight before brushing with baking soda.
Homemade All-Purpose Cleaner
Mix the vinegar, essential oils and a little water before adding baking soda in a clean spray bottle (glass is best). Then fill to top with water. I use about a 12 oz bottle. Gently shake to mix ingredients, and then spray, wipe with a cloth, and allow it to dry.
For an antibacterial cleaner, mix together 3 cups of water, ½ cup of white vinegar and 10-15 drops of lavender or tea tree essential oil in a glass spray bottle. Shake to mix. Store with the lid on and use on cutting boards, counter tops, or anywhere that needs a good germ killing! Shelf life is no more than 2 weeks.
DIY Shower Cleaner
If you are making it in a squirt bottle, add 2 cups of vinegar and 3 tablespoons dawn dish soap. If you are using the wand scrubber just fill half parts vinegar and dish soap. Shake, shake, shake! Spray on shower, let it sit for a few minutes then scrub away!
Use eco-friendly liquid castile soap diluted or at full strength to reduce the amount of all germs and chemicals. With proper washing, soap works well on most viruses, even better than disinfectants, wipes and gels containing alcohol, because soap dissolves the virus's fat membrane.
Best all-purpose natural cleaning products for the whole house
All-purpose cleaner: Mix 1 cup vinegar, 2 tsp. borax, 4 cups hot water, 5 drops liquid dish soap, 10 drops tea tree oil, and 10 drops your favorite essential oil (optional). Disinfectant: Use a 50-50 vinegar-water mix to wipe down phones, doorknobs, faucet handles, and more when cold and flu season hits, Findley says.
Mix the Bleach and Water
You don't use a one-to-one ratio for a homemade bleach cleaner—instead, you'll be using one part bleach to nine or 10 parts water, since bleach is pretty powerful stuff. To translate, if your bottle holds 30 ounces, you should add about three ounces of bleach and fill the remainder with water.
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