Everything you Need to Make Homemade Cleaners- Plus recipes to clean your Bathroom

This is actually taken from my old blog, which was a home organization blog that to be honest I got bored with. (I am just never going to be that organized.)

So, what do you need to make all your own homemade cleaning products?

1.) Baking Soda
Baking soda is awesome. It is non toxic (you can eat it) and it scours like nobodies business.

2.) White vinegar
a natural disinfectant. spray it on mildew, wait, and wash it scrub away.

3.) Borax
20 mule team borax. Find it in the laundry aisle. (This you CANNOT eat. It will make you sick. or possibly worse).

3.) Washing soda
also in the laundry aisle.

4.) Hydrogen Peroxide
Located with the first aid supplies. You can actually gargle with this stuff.

5.) Fels napa laundry soap or ivory (depends what is cheaper)

6.) Dr. Bronner's liquid castile soap
(The most expensive ingredient. I buy this on amazon.com.)

And, that's it. Those are all the things I use to clean my entire house. I decided to give you the recipes for all my bathroom cleaners today, because my whole bathroom is cleaned by homemade products.
I have tried a lot of different recipes, and sometimes it is frustrating because not everything works. Sometimes you have to tweak the recipe a little bit. And, sometimes you have to let it go and try something new altogether. But, here are what I use to clean my bathroom (we only have one! the HGTV people would have a coronary!* )

Shower Cleaner:
1 part Hydrogen peroxide to 3 parts water

Mix in spray bottle and shake. Spray on offending tile/surface/tub rings. Wait a little bit and scrub. Voila! If my tub ring is really bad, I scour it with baking soda!

I use this mixture to wash my sink counter too. I used to use white vinegar and water, but my husband is extremely offended by the smell of vinegar.

Glass/Mirror Cleaner:

1 part vinegar to 3 parts water

Mix in spray bottle, shake, and you're ready to spray. If you have old newspaper, you can wipe away your mirror with this. I know, it sounds weird, newspaper to clean a mirror? But it really works and it's streak free!

Toilet Bowl Cleaner:
Baking Soda
Vinegar

Sprinkle baking soda around inside of toilet bowl. Then pour vinegar over it. Enjoy volcano effect. Then, scrub with toilet brush

Really Dirty Toilet:
use borax instead of baking soda.

We didn't have a toilet paper roll holder, so rather than buy something my husband built this nifty rack with a magazine holder and hand towel holder. You can see my favorite bathroom reads, any "Calvin and Hobbes" collections. :)

Bathroom Floor Cleaner: ( I have a tile floor)

Bucket of water. Shot glass of vinegar.
Mop floor.

That's it! If you want a homemade recipe for anything, I would recommend Homemade by Reader's Digest. While I do not use all the recipes in here (I do not use anything with ammonia or bleach) It has a lot of useful recipes in it.

Well, there it is. Homemade cleaning for your bathroom. How do I organize this? I have a cupboard over the toilet (Yard sale find for $5!) that I store my homemade sprays in. I mark them with a sharpie so I know what they are!

Katie

* we do have a gross scary toilet in the basement.