Make Your Own Cleaners

January 16, 2009, 11:35 ambetterhomesgardens

Use simple items to make your own cleaners

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All purpose cleaner

1 to 1 ratio of water & white vinegar
Spray bottle

Process:
Step 1: Combine mixture in a spray bottle and shake
Step 2: Use it around the house!
Eg. Kitchen - benchtops, cabinets, exterior and interior of the fridge.
Bathroom - Clean the bathtub, toilet, sink, and countertops. Use pure vinegar in the toilet bowl to get rid of rings. Flush the toilet to allow the water level to go down. Pour the undiluted vinegar around the inside of the rim. Scrub down the bowl.
Vinegar will also eat away the soap scum and hard water stains on your fixtures and tiles. Make sure it is safe to use with your tile.

Cleaning Floors including tiles, laminex, vinyl and polished floorboards


2 cap fulls of white vinegar
4 cups of warm water
Mop or squeeze sponge

Process
Step 1: Make sure you vacuum and sweep your floors regularly before you mop them!
Step 2: Mix warm water and vinegar together
Step 3: Make the mop damp with the mixture and wash the floor.

Cleaning your windows and mirrors


1 part white vinegar
4 parts warm water
microfibre cloth
spray

Process:
Step 1: Put one part white vinegar to four parts warm water and mix in a bucket or in a spray container.
Step 2: Sponge or spray mix onto the windows
Step 3: Wipe away

Grout in bathrooms and nooks and cranies in the bathroom


4 tablespoons of Bicarb
1 tablespoon water
old toothbrush
bowl to mix paste in

Process:
Step 1: Make a paste of bicarb and vinegar
Step 2: scrub mixture into grout with an old toothbrush also use around fixtures like taps
Step 3: Rinse or buff off after scrubbing.

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