How to Make Homemade Furniture Polish

Creating homemade cleaning products is a good way to help the planet and reduce the amount of harmful toxins in your home. Homemade furniture polish is an opportunity to have an inexpensive non-toxic product that works and is easy to make. With a few items from the kitchen cupboard, this homemade furniture polish recipe gives a rich finish to wood and it smells good too.

Things You'll Need

• Baby oil
• Bowl
• Lemon extract
• Spoon
• Plastic wrap
• Cloth

Instructions

1. Measure out 1/2 a cup of baby oil using a plastic measuring cup. If you don't have any baby oil in the house, olive oil works just as well.

2. Pour the baby oil into a disposable plastic bowl. A bowl not used for food items is best.

3. Add a few drops of lemon extract or fresh lemon juice to the bowl of baby oil. Use 3 to 5 drops of lemon extract but you can use more if you like a stronger scent.

4. Stir the polish mixture with a kitchen spoon until the lemon extract and baby oil mix evenly.

5. Cover the bowl of homemade furniture polish with plastic kitchen wrap until ready to use. Stir again with a spoon just before using to reactivate.

6. Use polish by dipping a dry clean polishing cloth into the mixture a little at a time. Gently rub polish mix over wood surfaces to give a clean non-toxic shine that smells fresh.

7. Store homemade polish covered with other cleaning products in a dry safe place.

Tips & Warnings

• Orange extract creates the same effect and offers an alternative scent.