Homemade Cleaning Products

I have been reading many articles on homemade cleaning products and decided I'd give them a try. Here are a few that I have tried and really like.

#1. I have been making my own laundry detergent for almost a year now and I love it. It takes a little time to make but it definitely saves me money. You can find out how to make your own by looking under cleaning recipes on my sidebar.

#2. Alice's Wonder Spray is an all-purpose cleaner recipe that I found over at Tammy's Recipes. I mixed a bottle of this up for everyday use but I also mixed a large batch of it up and used it to scrub my walls down with a few weeks ago. It worked well on the little fingerprints on the wall. :)

1/4 cup white vinegar

1 tbsp. borax

3 cups hot water

squirt of dish soap

32 oz. spray bottle

Mix the vinegar and borax in the bottle. Fill with hot water and shake to dissolve the borax and then add the dish soap. (This is the blue bottle that is in the photo.)

#3. Floor Cleaner

Here is what I mixed together the other day to scrub my linoleum floors and it worked well.

1/4 cup borax

1/4 cup baking soda

1 1/2 cups vinegar

hot water

Add the borax, baking soda and vinegar to a scrub bucket. Let it bubble up for a minute and then fill the bucket the rest of the way up with hot water.

#4. Homemade Fabric Softener Sheets

My sister-in-law Joan passed this on to me (It's the milky white substance in the photo.) and here is how I made mine.

Take a coffee can or other container of about the same size.

Add 1-2 capfuls of store bought liquid fabric softener to the container and then fill it the rest of the way up with water.

Next I took two old washcloths and cut each one in half giving me a total of 4 strips. Place those in the liquid.

Now when I dry a load in the dryer I just open my container and pull out one or two strips and wring them out good. Toss them in the dryer with the clothes and turn dryer on. When clothes are dry I take the strips out and toss them back into the coffee can for the next load. I have just started doing this within the past month but can already see that it is saving money and it does make my clothes soft and static free.

**I purchase a lot of these cleaning ingredients in bulk so that I always have enough on hand. I buy the Borax and vinegar at Walmart. The baking soda I buy in big bags at Sam's Club. **