Do you want to keep your home clean but you do not want to poison yourself with chemical cleaning products?

Do you want to save money and preserve the health of your family?

Get rid of chemical cleaning products.

Keep your home clean using natural cleaning products, like your grandmothers did.

Commercial during your favorite TV shows always features cleaning products that clean, wash, remove stains, scale and eliminate unpleasant scents “with no trouble”.

Housewives in those commercials just apply solutions to surfaces, let them stay for a few minutes and easily wipe out all the stains.

Under the impression of what you just saw, you head to the supermarket to buy such efficient products. 

You come home, apply the product and wait for a few minutes believing that your work is soon over.

After a few minutes you wipe off the surface, but it is still dirty, rusty, filled with scale and fungi. 

After you repeat the process, you become aware that you have been set up by another effective commercial. 

Apart from spending money on that chemical cleaning product, you and the people you live with inhaled dangerous fumes and your pet has contaminated his paws, which he will soon lick.

Why use ecological cleaning products?

The sponge you used for wiping clean products and filth will be washed in a sink so chemicals will go into the waste water.

Then the plants will intake those chemicals from polluted water via their roots. If those plants are edible, there is a chance you will eat them without even knowing that those plants used water you polluted. 

By development of mass production industry, today’s powdery detergents for washing clothes and all other cleaning products became cheap and widely accessible and supermarkets are full of them.

Chemical cleaning products are not acceptable from ecological and health stand points.

Active substances are based on phosphates and synthetic surfactants that cause allergies and irritate the skin and can even be lethal in high dosages. 

By inhaling various chemical substances we risk carcinogenic diseases. 

Apart from great damages we cause to ourselves and our families, we also damage nature.

Do yourselves and your family a favor and start cleaning your home using natural cleaning products that are not just healthier and cheaper than industrial cleaning products, but are also proven to be more effective.

Make your own cleaning products

Making your own, ecological and healthy cleaning product is very simple.

You just need a few cheap ingredients and some time and effort.

Such products are not only better than the industrial ones, but their usage will not endanger your health or pollute nature. 

After you try some of ecological products you will never again reach for chemical ones. 

Natural cleaning products are based on a natural soap, vinegar, lemon juice, glycerin, borax, baking soda, salt and essential oils.

The aforementioned ingredients are sufficient to keep your home and clothes clean and smelling good.

Eco laundry detergent for whites (60-95 degrees C)

Ingredients:

• minced natural soap (extra strong), 800 g
• washing soda (sodium carbonate), 1 000 g
• borax (sodium borate), 1 200 g
• baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), 50 g
• 10-30 drops of essential oil of your choice

This recipe is sufficient for about 3 kg of detergent.

Weigh all ingredients, place them in a large container and mix them thoroughly. Add essential oil drops and mix again. 

When you are done, store the detergent into a plastic container with a lid or into a PVC bag.

Shelf life: minimum of one year, store it on the dry and cold place, preferably closed so that the scent does not evaporate.

Eco laundry detergent (40-60 degrees C)

Ingredients:

• minced natural soap, 1 200 g
• washing soda, 950 g
• borax , 800 g
• baking soda, 50 g
• 10-30 drops of essential oil of your choice

This recipe is sufficient for about 3 kg of detergent.

Weight all ingredients, place them in a large container (around 5 liters in volume) and mix them thoroughly. Add essential oil drops and mix again. 

When you are done, store the detergent into a plastic container with a lid or into a PVC bag.

Shelf life: minimum of one year, store it on dry and cold place, preferably closed so that scent does not evaporate.

Eco washing detergent for sensitive laundry (40 degrees C)

Ingredients:

• minced natural soap, 1 200 g
• washing soda, 400 g
• borax, 200 g
• baking soda, 150 g
• cleaning salt, 50 g
• 10-30 drops of essential oil of your choice

This recipe is sufficient for about 2 kg of detergent.

Weigh all ingredients, place them in a large container (around 5 liters in volume) and mix them thoroughly. Add essential oil drops and mix again. 

When you are done, store the detergent into a plastic container with a lid or in a PVC bag.

Shelf life: minimum of one year, store it on the dry and cold place, preferably closed so that scent does not evaporate.

Natural softener

Natural softener you make at home is much cheaper and healthier than industrial one since it contains natural ingredients only.

Ingredients:

• 100 g of baking soda bicarbonate
• 600 ml of alcohol vinegar
• 700 ml of distilled water
• essential oil of your choice

Prepare a large container, minimum of 4 liters in volume, for mixing ingredients. Pour baking soda in the container and 100 ml of water. 

You do not have to mix it, just start adding vinegar.

When you add the vinegar, the mixture will start boiling because of a chemical reaction between vinegar and baking soda. Let it boil for several minutes so that the baking soda melts. 

Then add the rest of the water, that will stop the boiling process. Now start mixing until you get a homogenous liquid.

After that you can add essential oil. If you are using oils bought in a store, add 10-15 drops since such oils are often diluted. If you are using pure essential oil, five drops will be more than enough. 

The last thing to do is to pick a bottle in which you will store your finished product (close the bottle).

Use this softener as any other – add one cup of it into a softener slot during washing.

Eco glass cleaning product

Ingredients:

• minced natural soap (extra strong), 10 g
• 500 ml of distilled water
• 150 ml of alcohol for cleaning
• 100 ml of alcohol white vinegar
• essential oil

This recipe is sufficient for about 750 ml of cleaning product.

Measure all ingredients accurately. Heat water to 80 degrees C and pour in the soap. Stir gently until soap dissolves.

When the soap is completely dissolved, add other ingredients and stir gently. If there is some soap that has not dissolved, you can filtrate the mixture afterwards. 

Store the finished product in a plastic bottle with dispenser head.

Shelf life: minimum of one year.

Air freshener

Ingredients:

• ethyl alcohol, 200 ml
• distilled water, 300 ml
• essential lemon oil, 8 ml
• essential tangerine oil, 6 ml

This recipe is sufficient for about 500 ml of air freshener.

Measure all ingredients accurately. Mix essential oils and alcohol and add other ingredients. Store finished product into a bottle with dispensing head.

Essential oils will not completely resolve, therefore shake the bottle before every use. 

Treating fabric and sensitive surfaces are not recommended.   

Shelf life: unlimited

Product for removing scale and fungi

Ingredients:

• alcoholic white vinegar, 250 ml
• distilled water, 200 ml
• borax, 50 g
• ethyl alcohol, 50 ml
• essential eucalyptus oil, 10 ml

This recipe is sufficient for about 500 ml of air freshener.

Measure all ingredients accurately. Mix essential oil and alcohol.

Heat water until it boils and then remove it from the heat source. Add borax with continuous stirring. 

When water and borax mixture cools off, add alcohol and essential oil and vinegar at the end. Stir properly and store in a bottle with dispensing head.

Shake bottle before every use. This product is ideal for cleaning ceramic and enameled surfaces and chromed armatures in bathrooms and it can also be used for glass and plastic surfaces in bathroom or toilet. 

Shelf life: unlimited

Instructions: apply the product to target surface and leave it for 10-20 minutes. Wipe with wet cloth. For surfaces that are covered with scale or fungi, repeat the process 2-3 times.

Toilet cleaner 

Ingredients:

• 100 g of borax
• 100 ml of alcohol vinegar
• citric acid
• 500 ml of distilled water

We all know how annoying dirty toilet can be, so we use strong chemicals to get rid of impurities, bacteria and scale, not knowing that we can make our own eco-friendly cleaning product.

All we need is borax, vinegar and one tablespoon of citric acid and a half liter of water. Mix all ingredients, put the mixture into the container with dispenser head and shake it. 

In order to clean your toilet properly, apply the product in appropriate quantities and leave it for 15-20 minutes to start working. After that, scrub the toilet in order to completely remove all impurities.

Universal floor cleaning product

Ingredients:

• 1 spoon of grated natural soap
• 950 ml of silver water, you can also use distilled water 
• 2 spoons of borax
• 1 spoon of citric acid

Heat water and slowly add the soap and mix until it dissolves. Add other ingredients after that.

Store finished product in glass or plastic container.

Add 3 spoons of this product into a bucket filled with warm water and wipe the floor with it. Additional rinsing is not necessary.

Liquid product for cleaning ovens and refrigerators

Ingredients:

• 3 large spoons of borax
• ¼ of cup of vinegar
• 1/8 of cup of minced natural soap dissolved in water
• 2 cups of silver water, you can also use distilled water 
• baking soda (do not add into the mixture)
• cleaning salt

Mix borax, vinegar, dissolved soap and water in a bottle with a dispenser head. Shake it properly in order to mix all ingredients. 

Apply the mixture in oven and sprinkle baking soda and cleaning salt over it. 

Then sprinkle baking soda with cleaning product again. Leave it for a few hours or overnight.

Wipe the remaining cleaning product in the oven with a towel and wipe the inside of the oven with a sponge soaked in hot mixture of soap and water.

Detergent for hand dishwashing

Ingredients:

• 100 g of grated soap
• ½ of a cup of baking soda
• ¼ of cup of washing salt
• ½ of spoon of citric acid
• essential oil of your choice, 5 ml
• distilled water, 1-1.5 l

Place grated soap into the pot and add more than one cup of water. Heat the mixture on a stove and stir until soap dissolves. 

Remove from the source of heat, add other ingredients and stir until you get a homogeneous mixture. 

When the mixture cools off, pour it in appropriate container. You can use this product as any other dishwashing product.

This ecological product does not create as much foam as the industrial one, but it is still very efficient.

Product for removing stains

Borax will help you get rid of ugly stains on your carpet that often have an unpleasant smell. Before you apply borax, make a test on a small part of the carpet’s surface to make sure your carpet will not lose color.

Wine and alcohol stains can be removed with a mixture of half of cup of borax and 500 ml of water.

Use sponge to apply the solution to the stain, leave it for 30 minutes and then rinse it with shampoo. The best results will be achieved if the stain is fresh.

Blood stains are easily removed if you soak the surface in cold water or in a paste made of cornstarch and water.

Soak coffee or tea stains in lemon juice.

Fatty stains on clothes can be removed by sprinkling regular powder on the stain. After that, wash it in the washing machine.

Tomato stains can be removed with a paste made of borax and water.

Where to find needed ingredients

You can find cleaning soda in Muller on shelves with other products for washing clothes and 0.5 kg costs around 1 EUR.

Borax can be bought at the pharmacy and 100 g costs around 1.5 EUR.

Citric acid and distilled water can be found in every supermarket.

Eco soap can be found in herbal stores.

 

Safety measures: when making your own cleaning products, follow the safety instruction found on packages of individual ingredients.

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