It’s easy to make homemade cleaners. Here are 5 Easy Homemade Cleaners Recipes, most of which only use 3-5 ingredients you already have in your kitchen!
I wanted to share a few Homemade Cleaners from our Dining on A Dime Cookbook, Volume 1. Most people don’t realizes how easy it is to make homemade cleaners and most only use 3-5 ingredients you already have in your kitchen!!
Of course, one of the simplest cleaners for most purposes is to just put some rubbing alcohol on a rag and wipe everything down. It doesn’t streak, it disinfects and it’s one quick ingredient! To be honest this is the one cleaner I use for my quick bathroom clean up every day.
Homemade Clorox Wipes Recipe
Ingredients
1 cup water
1/4 cup rubbing alcohol
1 tsp. Dawn dish soap (only use Dawn)
2 Tbsp. ammonia (optional)
24 rags – cut into squares. (I cut them to about 4×6 inches but whatever size you have available or whichever size you need will work. I also use old washrags that have seen better days.)
Instructions
Mix the ingredients and pour over the rags.* Then, when you need to clean your bathroom, use them as you would the disposable Clorox wipes.
The best thing about these homemade wipes is that you can just throw them in the washing machine and use them again! Really! It’s that simple!
*After you make this homemade Clorox wipes recipe, you will need to adjust how much of the mixture you pour over your rags. I didn’t have that many rags and they were pretty wet so I just used less of the cleaner.
Homemade Fruit and Vegetable Wash Recipe
Here’s an easy recipe for a homemade fruit and vegetable wash you can use to clean your fresh fruits and vegetables. This recipe uses natural ingredients and can help you clean your fresh produce thoroughly before you prepare it.
Ingredients
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
2 Tbsp. baking soda
1 cup water
Instructions
- Put ingredients in a spray bottle. Be careful because it will foam up.
- Spray on vegetables and let sit 5 minutes.
- Then rinse with a scrub brush.
Homemade Fabric Softener Recipe
This easy homemade fabric softener recipe makes fabric softener that works just as well as the store bought with ingredients you already have at home.
Ingredients
3 cups hot water
1 1/2 cups vinegar
1 cup hair conditioner
Instructions
- Pour the conditioner into the hot water.
- Stir (don’t shake).
- Then add the vinegar.
- Pour into a gallon container.
- Use the same amount of the fabric softener as you would use of the store bought kind or moisten a rag and throw it in the dryer. You can put this fabric softener into your Downy balls too.
Notes
- The water has to be very hot to dissolve the conditioner. If it doesn’t dissolve just whisk it or warm up the water hotter in the microwave.
- If you do need to buy conditioner, something like Suave Lavender from the Dollar Tree works just fine.
- This homemade fabric softener recipe makes a half gallon and if you want to make less, you can easily half the recipe.
- Yes it does work in HE washers.
- For sensitive skin, you will just have to use plain vinegar. My son has horrible eczema and I can’t use anything with scents on his clothes, so vinegar it is!
Homemade All Purpose Cleaner Recipe
Ingredients
1 gallon water
1 cup ammonia or 2 tsp. Dawn dishsoap
1/2 cup vinegar
1/2 cup baking soda
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients.
- Put into a spray bottle to clean showers, toilets, sinks and counters.
This homemade all-purpose cleaner is great for most cleaning needs. Use all-purpose cleaner to clean your floors. Just spray on and wipe off as you would counter-tops.
This is not a disinfectant. To make it a disinfectant, too, add about 1/4 cup rubbing alcohol to the bottle.
All Purpose Cleaner Recipe #2 – (My newer version.)
This disinfecting cleaner is the one I prefer and use most often. It is the same as the all purpose cleaner above except that it includes alcohol for disinfecting.
PrintAll Purpose Disinfecting Cleaner Recipe
Ingredients
1 gallon water
1 cup ammonia or 2 tsp. Dawn dish soap
1/2 cup vinegar
1/2 cup baking soda
1/4 cup rubbing alcohol
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients.
- Put into a spray bottle to clean showers, toilets, sinks and counters.
This all-purpose cleaner is great for most cleaning needs. Use this all-purpose disinfecting cleaner to clean your floors. Just spray on and wipe off as you would countertops.
Notes
This all purpose disinfecting cleaner is a disinfectant because it includes the alcohol.
Homemade Dishwasher Detergent Recipe
This homemade dishwasher detergent recipe is one of those super simple recipes that people don’t think to make but can save you a lot! The best part is it takes less than 2 minutes to make!
Ingredients
1 cup baking soda or washing soda
1 cup Borax
1-2 drops of scented oil (optional)
Instructions
Mix ingredients.
Use the homemade dishwasher detergent like you would use regular detergent.
Notes
Another option for cleaning your dishwasher: Pour in a package of unsweetened lemonade Kool Aid or a cup of vinegar into your dishwasher.
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