DIY Green Cleaning Products

If you want to make homemade, environmentally friendly cleaning products, often, the ingredients you find in your kitchen cabinet are all you need. When you use these products, the environment benefits but so do you. Often, DIY green cleaning products are inexpensive and won't damage your septic or create toxins that may damage your health.

Vinegar

White vinegar is one of the best cleaners in your cupboard. The vinegar is a deodorizer that absorbs odors. Use it as fabric softener. When you add it to the rinse water, it removes the last residue of detergent. Mix it with water and put it in a spray bottle to make a cleaning solution.

Baking Soda

You can add baking soda to the wash cycle of your laundry in lieu of a fabric softener. If your tub needs a scrub and there's grunge all over you sink, make a super cleaner. Wipe the area with a cloth soaked in white vinegar. Sprinkle on baking soda and then scrub with the same rag. The vinegar breaks the soap scum and the baking soda provides a great, lightly abrasive scrub.

Furniture Polish

What do you get when you mix olive oil, vinegar and water? Salad dressing, right? Mix 1 teaspoon of white vinegar, 2 tablespoons of olive oil and 4 cups of warm water for a great furniture polish. Put the ingredients in a spray bottle. Set the bottle in a pan of warm water, because it works better warm. Spray the warm solution on furniture, dry and polish with a soft cloth.

Green Bleach

If you worry about the whites getting whiter without bleach, fear no more. Make a batch of safe bleach with hydrogen peroxide. Use 1 part hydrogen peroxide for every 8 parts of water. Soak the article of clothing in the mixture and rinse.

Lemons for Toilets

Lemons smell so good and make a wonderful stain remover for your toilet bowl. Mix the juice of one lemon with enough borax to make a paste. Remove the water from your toilet bowl. Dampen the sides of your toilet, apply the paste and let it work it's magic. After 2 hours, scrub off the paste and the toilet bowl stain.

Calcium Build-Up

Keep coffee pots clean and remove calcium build-up from pans. White vinegar works as well as any coffee pot cleaner and is a lot more inexpensive. Simply add 4 cups of white vinegar full strength to your coffee pot and start it. Run the vinegar through a second time if the pot needs another treatment. Rinse by running two pots of clear water through the pot.

Mold Killer

White vinegar sprayed undiluted onto mold will kill over 80 percent of the mold. Just spray, allow the area to set for 3 to 4 hours and rinse off. Kill of the remaining mold with a spray bottle containing hydrogen peroxide.

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