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Natural Cleaning Products
Jul. 13th, 2006 10:30 amI have to say, the vinegar, salt, and baking soda cleaning products thing is working out well. It's been a few months now, and the place seems clean to me.
1/2 and 1/2 vinegar and water in an old spray bottle - glass cleaner with newspaper wipes.
I fill an old 409 spray bottle with vinegar, dump it into a saucepan, add a cup of kosher salt and stir to dissolve, and then funnel it back into the bottle - surface cleaner!
Then in the bathroom, I mix baking soda with water to make a watery paste and rub it on the shower and toilet - then I spray with the surface cleaner, it fizzes up, and I scrub it.
I don't buy any more plastic bottles, it is way cheaper, and it's working great. I will admit to having to scrub more, but I think the tradeoffs in cost (I buy 5 gallon jugs of vinegar, giant bags of baking soda, and big kosher salt boxes at BJ's for wicked cheap) and the absence of weird harsh chemicals in my house is totally worth it. Household cleaners are expensive! And I don't have to throw out or recycle little spray bottles every month.
I haven't found a substitute for floor cleaner though, and I do still keep a bottle of Lysol bleach surface cleaner handy for when I really, really want to be sure about disinfecting. But man, vinegar does the trick well.
1/2 and 1/2 vinegar and water in an old spray bottle - glass cleaner with newspaper wipes.
I fill an old 409 spray bottle with vinegar, dump it into a saucepan, add a cup of kosher salt and stir to dissolve, and then funnel it back into the bottle - surface cleaner!
Then in the bathroom, I mix baking soda with water to make a watery paste and rub it on the shower and toilet - then I spray with the surface cleaner, it fizzes up, and I scrub it.
I don't buy any more plastic bottles, it is way cheaper, and it's working great. I will admit to having to scrub more, but I think the tradeoffs in cost (I buy 5 gallon jugs of vinegar, giant bags of baking soda, and big kosher salt boxes at BJ's for wicked cheap) and the absence of weird harsh chemicals in my house is totally worth it. Household cleaners are expensive! And I don't have to throw out or recycle little spray bottles every month.
I haven't found a substitute for floor cleaner though, and I do still keep a bottle of Lysol bleach surface cleaner handy for when I really, really want to be sure about disinfecting. But man, vinegar does the trick well.