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Disinfecting All-Purpose Cleaner

If your a regular reader of my blog, you know how much I love making things homemade whenever possible. This includes cleaning products as well as food. After talking to a few of my bloggy friends recently, I realized I wasn’t the only one who wanted to use homemade cleaners. Which is understandable. Not only are homemade cleaners cheaper, but they’re safer for us and the environment.

Don’t think so? Take a look at the list of ingredients on the cleaners you have in your home right now. Every one of them have a warning, don’t they? I for one refuse to use something to clean my house, that is a threat to my families health. Not when non-toxic cleaners do just as an effective job. This Disinfecting All-Purpose Cleaner I’m sharing with you today is super easy to put together, and does a fantastic job of cleaning my kitchen and bathroom.

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Soft Scrub For Bathtubs and Sinks

Homemade soft scrub is one of my favorite cleaners. It cuts through soap scum and grime without scratching the surfaces of my bathtub and sinks, and is super easy to make with only three simple ingredients. It also doesn’t contain any harsh chemicals such as bleach or ammonia. The amounts I have listed below make a small batch, which is perfect for cleaning a bathtub, or several sinks. You can easily double the ingredients for bigger jobs, because it stores well in a glass or plastic container with a lid if you have any leftovers. If you need a little more oomph for a tough cleaning job, add 1 tablespoon of salt for extra scouring power.

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Non-Toxic Toilet Bowl Cleaner

If your a regular reader of my blog, you know how much I love making things homemade whenever possible. This includes cleaning products as well as food. After talking to a few of my bloggy friends recently, I realized I wasn’t the only one who wanted to use homemade cleaners. Which is understandable. Not only are homemade cleaners cheaper, but they’re safer for us and the environment.

Don’t think so? Take a look at the list of ingredients of cleaners you have in your home right now. Every one of them have a warning, caution, poison, or danger label don’t they? I for one refuse to use something to clean my house, that is a threat to my families health, not when non-toxic cleaners do just as an effective job.

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Streak Free Glass Cleaner

Today I’m sharing one of my favorite non toxic household cleaners with you, Homemade Glass Cleaner. This stuff is easy to whip up, and super inexpensive. You all know how I am about being frugal! It cost pennies to make, which is more then I can say for those expensive store bought glass cleaners. It runs about $0.48 to make this homemade version, and is amazing in the way it will make your mirrors and windows sparkle, streak free.

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Homemade Foaming Hand Soap

I’m a big fan of Dawn dish soap, it is amazing at cleaning dirty, greasy dishes, but can be used for lots more things as well. My husband is always in the garage, working on either our, or our friends and neighbors mechanical equipment, such as lawn mowers, weed eaters, cars, etc. This equals one very dirty hubby by the time he’s through. So can you guess what he uses to wash his hands to get all that greasy dirt off? Yep, Dawn dish soap. It really cuts through all the gunk and gets his hands clean.

My daughter and I really enjoy using foaming hand soap. One day I ran out and didn’t feel like running into town just for a bottle of hand soap, when the idea hit me. Instead of buying those expensive refill bottles of foaming soap, which are mainly WATER, why not make my own with Dawn? I mean, it gets my husbands hands super clean, so why couldn’t we use it too? It’s super easy to make and only has two ingredients, A small amount of Dawn and water. That’s it!

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