All natural, and cheap, homemade house cleaners

Sunday, November 22, 2015

It is easy to clean your entire house with a few simple basics from your pantry: vinegar, baking soda, lemon juice, and washing soda.  Simply add your favorite essential oils, herbs, flowers or fruits to infuse fragrance in your healthy cleaners and home with every use.

Vinegar

Vinegar is a natural odor remover.  Just leave in a bowl and it will neutralize any odors.

For mildew, apply full strength, let set 30 minutes or more, scrub, and rinse.

To clean the toilet bowl, put 1 cup in the bowl, allow to sit several hours, and scrub the rings away.

For grease removal from the microwave, mix 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup of vinegar, place in microwave, and bring to a boil.  Then, wipe out.

Remove hard water buildup from shower heads by filling a plastic bag with vinegar and attaching to the shower head and let sit submerged several hours.

Baking soda

Make a paste with water and scrub away!  Great for cleaning sinks or treating grease stains on clothes.  If you need some abrasion, add salt to the paste.  

For scrubbing bubbles, add castile soap for more cleaning power.

Washing soda, a natural salt, is stronger than baking soda.  It is effective for grease, oil, and wine stains.

Lemons

Use lemon juice for whitening.  Can give hair highlights or whiten your linens.

Use a cut lemon for cutting grease, freshening your cutting board, removing hard water stains, cleaning fingernails, removing tarnish from copper, and age spot remover.

Throw your used lemon peel down the garbage disposal to freshen it.

Lemons can also be used to keep apples from turning brown, just squeeze some juice over the slices.  The juice from a lemon into a glass of water helps with the day after as well; it stimulates the liver to accelerate detoxing of the body.

Add essential oils for antibacterial properties and scent-lemon, tea tree oil, eucalyptus, peppermint, or pine.  For antifungal, eucalyptus, tea tree, lavender, peppermint or pine.  Or if add any essential oil that you love for beautiful fragrance every time you clean.

These basic cleaners should cover all your home needs.  You can use your current cleansers containers and fill with these healthy, fragrant options.