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15+ Homemade Cleaner Recipes That Will Rock Your Socks

May 1, 2014 by Jenni 1,730 Comments

homemade cleaner recipes

Don’t diss the homemade cleaner recipes!

Have you ever read the labels on the back of your household cleaners? Seriously. Not only do you need to be a scientist to MAKE the cleaners, you need to be one to understand the labels too! Honestly though, the biggest downfall for me is the cost. Before you know it, that $3 bottle of window cleaner is gone and you don’t have the clean windows anymore to prove you used it all. Right? I see the smeared peanut butter, the sticky fingerprints, evidence of a dog lick or two….

….and OMG!!! Is that…..dried snot???!!! WHERE’S THE WINDEX!?! And the bleach??!!

I’ve found tons of awesome homemade cleaner recipes that are green, cheap, and half of which are even safe enough to EAT! Not that I would. Except for the vinegar. That’s pretty decent on salad. 🙂 Check these out and save yourself some cash! There are still some cleaners that I will continue to buy, but for the most part…I try to stick to the natural stuff!

homemade cleaner recipes

Homemade Laundry Detergent
This is the detergent I use ALL the time. I love love love it. My husband is a welder and his clothes are filthy dirty when he comes home from work. This detergent cleans his clothes and removes the stinky smell too. Best part is…it only costs around $0.02 to $0.03 per load! Say WHAT?! Yep!

 

homemade cleaner recipes

Homemade Streak Free Glass Cleaner (copycat Windex)
As much as we (and I’m sure you too) use glass cleaner, this recipe will save us a ton of cash! She also has this Homemade Tub Cleaner that works great! My tub and shower are always pretty grimey. This is a very simple recipe that works wonders! One of her commenters on the post said that they had a stain they thought was permanent for 3 years, and this recipe removed the stain!!!

 

homemade cleaner recipes

Homemade Carpet Deodorizer
Even though we have mostly hardwood floors, we do still have area rugs and one room that is carpeted so I still like to keep carpet deodorizer. This recipe is also perfect for couches, chairs or any other upholstered furniture. We have dogs so it’s nice to keep the furniture smelling fresh too!

 

homemade cleaner recipes

10 Homemade Household Cleaners
This post with 10 homemade household cleaners includes the following recipes:

  • Kitchen Counter Scrubber
  • Window Cleaner
  • Glass Shower Cleaner
  • Carpet Spot Cleaner
  • Toilet Bowl Cleaner
  • Disinfectant
  • All Purpose Cleaner
  • Floor Cleaner
  • Oven Rack Cleaner
  • Furniture Polish

 

 

Citrus-Cleaner

 Homemade All Purpose Citrus Cleaner

Teresa also shares some more great tips including how to make your own wool dryer balls and a fun little tip for your shower!

 

homemade cleaner recipes

7 Things in Your Pantry You Can Use to Clean With
Ellen shares some great tips here. She talks about several different things we usually already have in our cabinets that we can clean with. She also goes into a little detail about what each product is and how it works to tackle the jobs.

If you’re looking for something to clean your stainless steel appliances, check out Dina’s homemade stainless steel cleaner! She also shares a few other homemade cleaner recipes that you’ll love! While we’re on the subject of natural and non-toxic, you have to check out Kim’s natural weed killer recipe! I’ve used it and I won’t be buying the expensive stuff in the store anymore! Do you have any natural or thrifty homemade cleaner recipes that you use? We’d love to hear all about them! Leave us a comment and let us know what your favorites are!

If you’re looking for more helpful ideas, check some of my other posts out:

  • 25 Awesome Household Uses for Borax
  • How to Remove Ink from Plastic Containers – Reuse Your Containers
  • How to Spring Clean Like a Pro – Spring Cleaning Checklist and Guide
  • How To Safely Brighten, Whiten and Clean a Porcelain Tub
  • 20 Uses for Peppermint Oil – Natural Remedy to Keep Mice Away
  • 20+ Ways to Reuse Diaper Wipe Containers #Recycle
  • Homemade Eye Makeup Remover with Only 2 Ingredients – Costs Just $0.32 Per Ounce
  • How to Get Rid of Fleas Using Apple Cider Vinegar

 

Filed Under: DIY Ideas, Health & Wellness, Money Saving Tips, Sweep it up Saturday, Thrifty Household Tips, Thrifty Thursday Tagged With: all natural, Clean Green, green cleaning, Homemade Cleaner Recipes, spring cleaning

Into Green Cleaning? Try the New Heinz Cleaning Vinegar! #HeinzVinegar #Cbias

September 24, 2012 by Jenni 1,415 Comments

You know, I never really considered the importance of natural cleaning or “green cleaning” in my home until after I had my son, Eli.  I always thought, the stronger the chemical...the better.  A few years ago, I had come to the realization that my mother, grandmother, and her mother knew back then what I would eventually realize as an adult running a household.  They used natural, chemical-free cleaning products, like vinegar for a reason!

 

I remember my mom and grandma filling the kitchen and bathroom sinks with warm water and vinegar.  I never understood the reason, actually, I never even gave it much thought at all…until I was a mom!  Vinegar is a miraculous liquid.  Really, if you think about it, it is.  You can drink it, you can make salad dressing with it, you can pickle and can foods with it.  You can mop the floors with it, you can sanitize with it, it deodorizes stinky places, and eat through hard water deposits, ohh – and it cuts through grease and grime like nobody’s business!  It’s the most versatile thing ever and makes for healthy cleaning!

Because it’s all natural and because it does such a fantastic job at cleaning…it’s the perfect all purpose cleaner to have especially if you have children and pets because it won’t harm them – at all!  I actually put vinegar in my dogs food daily to help protect her from fleas!  It works…promise!

 

Heinz has recently launched a NEW product called Heinz Cleaning Vinegar!  Don’t let the word “cleaning” scare you from using it.  It has no soap or chemicals in it at all!  It’s just vinegar, only less diluted than regular vinegar so that it does a better job at all things related to cleaning.  As a matter of fact, right on the bottle it says, “Safe for cooking, perfect for cleaning”. You can find it at Walmart in the grocery department.

*Look for it in the grocery section, right beside the other vinegar products…in the same aisle as the pickles and salad dressing.

I had never tried it until now and I bought some to give it a whirl.  It does work harder and quicker than regular vinegar and it was only $2.98 for a big ole’ jug!

Some things I personally like to clean with vinegar, and other uses:

  • Mopping wood floors, especially if you have older hardwood floors that need TLC.
  • Stove, countertops, cabinets, fridge, microwave, other appliances (makes the fridge smell fresh and clean)
  • Bathroom; toilets, showers, tubs, sinks (cuts through hard water deposits)
  • Toys and Eli’s Thomas the Tank table where he sits to eat
  • Mirrors (leaves no streaks!!)
  • Sticky stuff – removes anything sticky (stickers, glue, gum)
  • Coffee Pot – We get hard water buildup inside the coffee pot and I run a couple pots of vinegar through to clean it out
  • Give the dog a squirt or 2 from a spray bottle mixed with a little water before going outside to keep fleas from jumping on him/her
  • Vinegar makes a great weed-killer in flower beds/gardens

I tested a few of the tough spots in the kitchen with the new Heinz Cleaning Vinegar.  Here are some before/after photos.

 

I don’t know about you, but I could clean the refrigerator door handle 10 times a day.  That’s what happens I guess when you have a 6 year old who won’t stay outta the fridge!  There’s peanut butter on there to prove it! The Heinz Cleaning Vinegar cleaned it up in a snap, and even some of the stuck on stuff…plus it made it nice and shiny!

 

 

Then I opened the inside of the fridge.  I had noticed a “blob” of stuff in there earlier before.  With it being higher up in the fridge, I think this was something that my older 43 year old man-child did!  He’s good for that kind of stuff!  Whatever it was, was sticky and kinda stuck on.  Without the vinegar, I probably would have taken a butter knife to scrape it off.  Yes, I’m one of “those” who uses butter knives for things other than spreading butter!  With the vinegar though, it came off easily!

 

 

Remember the 43 year old man-child I just spoke of?  That would be my husband.  Said husband is also the cook of our humble abode.  When he cooks, he doesn’t care who or what is in his path!  He’s like a tornado in the kitchen.  The stove photo above, is the after effects of his night of “chili makin”.  Grease splatters from frying ground beef and then tomato sauce splatters from letting the chili boil too hard.  Utter chaos!  We made a pact years ago when we got married, he cooks and I clean!  So, within just 4 minutes of using the Heinz Cleaning Vinegar, the stove was sparkling clean!  It cut through the grease and splatters as if they were just drops of water!

You can see my complete trip to Walmart to pick it up, plus everything else I cleaned using the vinegar in my Google+ Going Green #HeinzVinegar Cleaning album.

Vinegar has always been a major cleaning supply of mine, well, at least since I’ve been a mom.  I’m happy with this new Heinz Cleaning Vinegar and it will remain the main cleaning supply in our household.  Make sure you give it a try and let us know what you think!  What other natural cleaning solutions do you use?  We’d love to hear those too!

I am a member of the Collective Bias Social Fabric Community.  This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias and HEINZ #CBias #SocialFabric.  All opinions are 100% my own, and honest as always.

Filed Under: Product Reviews, Thrifty Household Tips, Walmart Tagged With: chemical-free cleaning, cleaning solutions, green cleaning, healthy cleaning, Heinz Cleaning Vinegar, natural cleaning, walmart

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