All Natural Cleaning

Alright. Here's the deal. You could go to the store and buy the super cool, super new green products out there, but that could cost a lot of money! Soo... to save lots of money I am going to show you how to take 3 basic ingredients and clean your entire house!! It'll be awesome.
Most of these are adapted from the book Healthy Child Healthy World and also Martha Stewarts Homekeeping Handbook but I changed a few.
These are your ingredients: White distilled vinegar(sold in gallons at the store), baking soda, and natural liquid soap such as castille or glycerin.

Lets start in the Kitchen -

• All purpose cleaner - Equal parts water and vinegar and 1/2 teaspoon of liquid soap. Optional - You can add some lemon juice for added power and a fresh scent or a couple drops of your favorite essential oil(be sure to check its toxicity first) and check here for safety precautions. Lavender boasts excellent antibacterial properties.
• Vinegar is a great cleaner and disinfectant on its own, for cleaning items that have touched raw meat, chicken, or eggs wipe it with vinegar and then with soap. You can also use a solution of hydrogen peroxide and water.
• Microwave cleaner - Place lemon slices and 8 ounces of water in a microwave safe bowl, heat for 3 minutes, let sit for 3 minutes and then remove the bowl and wipe it down.
• Coffee pot cleaner- After working in a couple restaurants, I picked up a few tricks. Throw a few lemon slices in the pot, fill it with ice, shake it up a bit, let it sit overnight, and rinse in the morning!
• Refrigerator cleaner - Baking soda and water. Using anything with a scent can absorb into your food, plus the baking soda will take out any odors!
• Floor cleaner - To be used all over you house on any hard surface floor. A bucket of hot water, liquid castille or glycerin soap, lemon juice or vinegar, and a few drops of essential oils if you want.
• Soft Scrub for sink (and tubs)- 1/2 cup baking soda and liquid castille soap. Slowly pour in the soap until it turns into paste.

The rest of the house-

• Glass cleaner - A 1:2 vinegar to water ratio in a spray bottle.
• Drain blaster - Pour 1 cup baking soda down the drain followed by 1 cup vinegar. Cover tightly with a scrunched up wash rag, let sit it a little bit and flush with boiling water.
• Air fresheners - A couple drops of your favorite essential oil or your favorite blend and water in a spray bottle! Works just as well!!!
• Toilet bowl cleaner - 1/2 cup vinegar into bowl. Let sit 20 or so minutes, scrub clean, and flush. This disinfects and removes odors as well.
• That strong odor from diner, or the cat box, or whatever else stinks! - Set a small bowl of vinegar in the room. It's a natural deodorizer.

I think that about covers it. Yes, vinegar stinks, but its smell goes away completely once dried and you can combat that smell with lemon juice and essential oils, plus they are beneficial in their own right. Also, adding hydrogen peroxide into some of these will boost its cleaning power, as peroxide is a natural bleaching agent and antimicrobial.

So there. I hope I have now inspired you to throw out your toxic products and make your own, or at the very least, go to the store and buy all natural cleaners!!!!