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Keep your home clean with ecofriendly cleaning recipes!!
Cleaning the house in a natural way is real advantageous and healthy. For starters, natural products are less harmful. Natural cleaners are worth using because they are soft, do not cause allergies and are friendly to the environment. For example, a polish that nourishes and leaves wooden floors looking like new is made from white vinegar. In fact, cleaning with vinegar or baking soda is something that some of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers used! And this is fantastic, because it is something that has been done for a long time and is gaining momentum now. So, let's learn some useful, cheap and easy to make home cleaners!
1. Hard Surface Cleaner
Ingredients
2 Fruit peels (lemon, orange or grapefruit)
White vinegar
Preparation
To make this homemade hard surface cleaner, soak the skin of two lemons, oranges, or grapefruit in a bottle with white distilled vinegar for a week. Then strain the mixture into a jar or spray bottle.
What surfaces can it be used on?
Use it to clean hard surfaces, such as sinks, wooden countertops, tile floors, wooden floors, but not marble. This lemon-based cleaner is great for preventing limescale from building up on your shower screen. In fact, if combined with a splash of dish soap, it is excellent for removing mold that appears in the joints and on the bottom of the screen.
2. All-Purpose Cleaner
Ingredients
Lemon
Baking soda
Preparation
This homemade all-purpose cleaner and polish for stainless steel is made in a jiffy. Cut half a lemon and sprinkle salt or baking soda on top, which is less abrasive. Then rub the stainless-steel surface you want to clean and shine. It's perfect for cleaning the sink!
As you already know, among the best uses for baking soda, we have that it is perfect for removing yellow stains from white clothes, removing scale from the toilet and burned pots and pans. It can even be used to clean your clothes iron!
3. Glass Cleaner
Do you want to clean and leave crystals, glass, mirrors and windows spotless? Take good note of this formula!
Ingredients
White vinegar
Water
Newspaper
Preparation
To do this, mix equal parts in a spray bottle of hot water and white vinegar. Add a few drops of lemon and spray on the crystals. Rub with newspaper to shine and you're done.
If you don't have newspaper on hand, use a microfiber cloth or kitchen napkin.
4. Oven Cleaner
Has something spilled in the oven? This combination of salt and cinnamon will fix it quickly.
Ingredients
Salt
Cinnamon
Preparation
Sprinkle salt and cinnamon over the spilled stain while it is still warm. Let it cool and remove the salt with a cloth or brush if necessary.
5. Oven Cleaner
Another green cleaner for the oven that you will love is this one! Try it out!
Ingredients
Water
Baking soda
Salt
Preparation
In a bowl, mix 50 ml of water + 150 g of baking soda + 50 g of coarse salt. Before applying this cleaner, dampen the entire surface of the oven interior with a sponge. Then, spread it over the entire interior surface and let it work overnight. In the morning, remove with hot water and that's it.