Do you have cleaning routines? A certain room where you always start, a certain corner you do your best to avoid? For me, making my own cleaning products is where it starts: I get to have a little DIY fun before starting the actual work. So much easier.
If you want to go the green cleaning route, you should start with these essential recipes. They’re easy to blend together, they need only a few ingredients, and they cover all the basics of your seasonal cleaning. In fact, you might want to learn them by heart, ’cause you’ll probably use them over and over.
11 Basic Natural Cleaning Recipes Everyone Should Know
1. DIY Stain Remover Spray
2. Natural Fridge Cleaner
Deep clean your fridge using vinegar, dish soap and orange essential oil, a combination which will remove unpleasant smells as well as disinfect the shelves.
3. Non-Toxic Oven Cleaner
Cleaning the oven is never exciting but at least it can be non-toxic! This recipe uses castile soap, baking soda and sea salt, leaving your oven as good as new.
4. The Easiest 1-Ingredient Homemade Window Cleaner
You might be surprised to find out which ingredient from your pantry can be used by itself to clean the windows. Hint: you might also want to infuse some for yourself!
5. A 2-Ingredient Stainless Steel Cleaner
Distilled water, rubbing alcohol… and that’s it! You don’t need anything else to make a powerful stainless steel cleaner!
6. Homemade Natural Dishwasher Detergent Tablets
Skip the chemically-made dishwasher tablets in favor of baking soda, citric acid and super washing soda. You can even get the shape you like using ice trays as molds!
7. Washing Machine Cleaner
Cleaning with natural ingredients is great, but you know what’s even better? Cleaning with a single natural ingredient, as is the case with your washing machine and vinegar!
8. All-Natural Floor Cleaner
Vinegar and rubbing alcohol disinfect the floor, while adding essential oils to the mix brings antimicrobial benefits as well as a pleasant scent. This all-natural floor cleaner is a must for anyone who wants to skip the chemicals.
9. Microwave Cleaner
Let’s be real for a second here – microwaves can get yucky fast! If you’ve ever burnt a bag of popcorn, you know what I mean. Luckily, you only need water, lemon and 5 minutes to clean up that messy microwave.
10. How to Clean a Microfiber Couch
While microfiber is super durable and quite easy to clean, it still needs some TLC from time to time! Use a solvent cleaner or a water-based cleaner, depending on the couch, to restore its look.
11. DIY Vinegar + Peroxide All-Purpose Cleaner
While mixing vinegar and peroxide in a single bottle won’t work to your favor, using one after the other might become your new go-to cleaner! You can use the combination on anything from cutting boards to produce.
mslightanddark says
Thank you! Good article
Kaylee says
Love to clean my house with eco friendly cleaning products.They are made without the unpleasant chemical residue and will not harm my family or pets 🙂 Most ingredients common for me are baking soda, vinegar, hydrogen peroxide and essential oils. I use not only lemon or lavender essential oils, but also rosemary, teat tree and pine.
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Nora says
Day by day the world is moving towards chemical. People are forgetting natural ways of living. Thank you for these natural cleaning solutions. I can save lots of money and also live healthy life without any chemicals.
Antony George says
These are really mouth watering, simple, and must try recipe. I really loved this very much. Thank you so much for sharing this here. I will definitely try these recipes this weekend for sure and will sure my opinion about this very soon. Keep posting such healthier and must try recipes. I hope that you will keep it up and we will have more informative and helping news from you. Thanks
Christopher Kates says
Thank you so much for sharing awesome cleaning tips.This would really help me.In fact this would really help all the people who tend to keep their home clean.These are natural home made remedies made with things which are there are at our house all the time and takes minute to be prepared and get best results.Looking forward for more similar tips to make the life ease.
Kyle Lauren Bouknight says
Thank you for posting natural cleaning solutions for my house cleaning chores! I will save tons of money. My healthy body will thank me as well!