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Monday, December 27, 2010

Save Money by Making Your Own Household Cleaners

Are you looking for a way to stretch your budget?  Making your own household cleaners not only saves you money, but helps the environment as well!  Most homemade cleaners are cheaper, safer, and work just as well as those that you can buy in the store. 
Here are some things to get you started:
EIGHT ESSENTIALS
These eight items make up the basic ingredients for nearly every do-it-yourself cleaning recipe.
Baking soda: provides grit for scrubbing and reacts with water, vinegar or lemon by fizzing, which speeds up cleaning times
Borax: disinfects, bleaches and deodorizes; very handy in laundry mixes.  Target now carries it, at least the one here does!  Find it in the laundry soap section.
Distilled white vinegar: disinfects and breaks up dirt; choose white vinegar over apple cider or red vinegars, as these might stain surfaces
Hydrogen Peroxide: disinfects and bleaches
Lemons: cut grease; bottled lemon juice also works well, although you might need to use bit more to get the same results
Olive oil: picks up dirt and polishes wood; cheaper grades work well
Vegetable based (liquid castile) soap: non-petroleum all-purpose cleaners, I prefer Dr. Bronner's.
Washing soda: stain remover, general cleaner, helps unblock pipes; should be handled with gloves due to its caustic nature. Washing soda is usually found in the laundry aisle of grocery and drug stores.
Don't forget to pick up an empty spray bottle at the hardware store, and keep those old rags and used toothbrushes for wiping up and scrubbing.  I keep a basket full of old rags in a convenient place so it's alway easy to grab one to wipe up a spill.  Recipes after the jump!
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