How to Make Laminate Floor Cleaner

Use natural ingredients to clean your laminate floors.

Laminate flooring is a popular flooring option. It's a very durable surface and much less expensive than hardwood flooring. But like all floors that experience foot traffic, it will get dirty. There's no need to buy an expensive laminate floor cleaner, though, because you can make your own with a couple of natural ingredients.

Things You'll Need

• Bucket
• Measuring cup
• Dish soap
• Lemon juice
• White vinegar

Instructions

1. Clean out a bucket thoroughly. If there is dirt, sand or other solid in the bucket, it could scratch the floor when cleaning.

2. Measure 1/4 cup of any liquid dish soap, and pour it into the bucket.

3. Add 1 cup of lemon juice to the dish soap.

4. Pour 2 cups of vinegar into the bucket.

5. Add 2 cups of water.

6. Mix the solution thoroughly. If the dish or bucket has a lid, you can close the lid and shake the container vigorously. This probably works best, but you can just as well use a spoon.

Tips & Warnings

• Be sure you have swept the floor so it is free of dirt, sand and other solids to avoid scratching the floor.

• Wring your mop out well after wetting it in the solution so that it is just damp. Too much water can harm laminate surfaces.

• You may change the quantities, but keep the ratio the same: equal parts water and vinegar, half that amount of lemon juice and an eighth of that amount of dish soap.

References

• Professor's House: Cleaning Laminate Floors
• Eartheasy: Non-Toxic Home Cleaning