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How to to Make a Natural Wood Furniture Polish at Home

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By dete49
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If you want to clean and polish your furniture. Here is a idea to make a natural polish that is great for the environment and has no harmful chemicals.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions
  1. Step 1

    First you will need to put together the ingredients for the furniture polish and cleaner. You will need olive oil, white distilled vinegar, and food grade pure lemon oil or lemon juice. You will need a small plastic 8oz. empty squeeze bottle or squirt bottle. These products are all natural and contain no harsh chemicals. You can clean and polish all your furniture and tables with this mixture. If you can't afford olive oil you can use linseed oil.

  2. Step 2

    Take the olive oil and fill the bottle with about 3/4 of a cup.Next add about 1/4 cup white distilled vinegar. Be careful not to over flow the bottle. Now add your lemon oil about 1/4 teaspoon for the fragrance. If you have a small funnel it makes it allot easier to pour the mixture into the bottle. Make sure to use pure lemon oil not the synthetics ones. If you don't have pure lemon oil you can substitute the lemon juice. To make the furniture polish with a different fragrance you can use vanilla extract about 1/2 tsp.

  3. Step 3

    You should use a soft terry cloth rag not paper towels to polish your furniture.Now shake up the polish before you apply it to the rag. Take the bottle and squirt the polish on the rag and give the furniture a good buffing. You can use this on oak,maple,cherry and teak woods and get great results. Remember to test your polish on a leg to see how it looks. You don't want to much vinegar less is better. You need to let the polish soak in a bit then buff it out. This natural polish works great on leather furniture that is worn as it replaces the oil in the leather. Make sure to label the furniture polish bottle before you put it away.

Tips & Warnings
  • Don't use to much vinegar and use olive oil especially on leather car seats and other leather furniture.
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