I'm Looking for Your "Homemade" Cleaner Recipes.

I love cleaning with vinegar. My husband hates the smell, so I dilute it more. I clean mirrors with vinegar and newspaper, clean carpet with vinegar and water by filling steam cleaning with vinegar (white) and hot water (when we called someone to clean our carpets when we moved from Durango, the carpet cleaner told me this secret), your house will smell like vinegar for a couple of days. Vinegar absorbs odors and cleans. I also spray vinegar around doorways and window seals to keep out ants. I hope this helps.

You don't need vinegar if you wash your windows and mirrors with a newspaper--all you need is water. I use a spray bottle of water, spritz the indoor glass with it, then scrub with newspaper. Outside, I use the hose to spray them off, then scrub with newspaper. Something in the ink is acidic, so you don't need the vinegar (which is an acid). That way you don't get the stink.
For scrubbing my bathtubs, I get them wet, then drizzle a little $1 shampoo (or hotel samples I don't want), then dust with baking soda. It's a great non-scratch abrasive.

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Hello...Kudos to you for wanting to use natural cleaners! I have a two year old and am 6 months prego so I got into tha natural cleaners as well. Heres what I know.....Baking Soda: Mix soda with water until you have a thick liquid, then add a squirt of dishwashing liquid to clean and disenfect hard surfaces. For tough dirt or grease add a little less water and let the granules work there abrasive magic.
Lemon: A well known stench remover also cleans well. Cut it in half and sprinkle baking soda on it to create an all natural scrubbing, deodorizing, and cleaning machine.
Vinegar: Distilled white vinegar, when mixed with equal parts of water, is an excellent glass cleaner, it also cuts through grease and helps prevent mold growth. It also makes an effective clothes cleaner allthought its rather stinky.
Good luck!!!

I have a spray bottle of vinegar and water (equal parts) that we use anywhere you'd spray 409 or windex and also use on the tile floor. for toilets, put baking soda (a few shakes) in the bowl and then about a 1/2 cup of vinegar. it'll foam up (remember doing volcanoes as a kid?), disinfect, and leave things sparkling w/ a scrub w/ the toilet brush. I read somewhere that vinegar does a better job disinfecting kitchen germs and toilets than chlorine does! For a paste, I use BonAmi (try safeway to purchase). It's been around for 100+ years and doesn't have chlorine in it. It's safe to use on anything that'd scratch, like fiberglass tubs, corning ware, etc.

Vinegar is a mainstay of the old folk recipes for cleaning, and with good reason. The vim of the vinegar is that it kills bacteria, mold and germs.

SIMPLE SOLUTION: Heinz company spokesperson Michael Mullen references numerous studies to show that a straight 5 percent solution of vinegar—thekind you can buy in the supermarket—kills 99 percent of bacteria, 82 percent of mold, and 80 percent of germs (viruses). He noted that Heinz can't claim on their packaging that vinegar is a disinfectant since the company has not registered it as a pesticide with the Environmental Protection Agency. However, it seems to be common knowledge in the industry that vinegar is powerfully antibacterial. Even the CBS news show "48 Hours" had a special years ago with Heloise reporting on tests from The Good Housekeeping Institute that showed this.
Just like antibiotics, common disinfectants found in sponges and household sprays may contribute to drug resistant bacteria, according to researchers of drug resistance at Tufts New England Medical Center. Furthermore, research at the Government Accounting Office shows that many commercial disinfectants are ineffective to begin with, just like antibiotics.

Keep a clean spray bottle filled with straight 5 percent vinegar in your kitchen near your cutting board, and in your bathroom, and use them for cleaning. I often spray the vinegar on our cutting board before going to bed at night, and don't even rinse, but let it set overnight. The smell of vinegar dissipates within a few hours. Straight vinegar is also great for cleaning the toilet rim. Just spray it on and wipe off.