There are simple and accessible recipes to disinfect your home and eliminate germs without going through the bleach or toxic products box. Discover all our tips and recipes for disinfectant products for efficient and healthy cleaning of your home!
Bleach, long presented as THE solution to effectively disinfect the house, is in fact an extremely harmful product for health and the environment. Sure, it's a powerful disinfectant that kills a lot of viruses and bacteria, but at what cost to you and the environment?
The fumes it gives off can cause serious health problems (headaches, irritation or burns of the mucous membranes and inflammation of the respiratory tract). In addition, its extremely toxic composition makes it a very harmful waste for the environment, preventing the proper development of biodiversity.
The other disinfectant cleaning products available on the market do not offer a better alternative since they are themselves composed of chemical ingredients that are sources of pollution harmful to humans and the environment (VOCs, toxic waste, etc.) .
Are there natural disinfectants?
There are much healthier and equally effective alternatives with simple and natural ingredients like white vinegar, baking soda or 70 ° c alcohol.
Discover now our recipes to disinfect your home and eliminate viruses and bacteria without fear of side effects on your health.
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Homemade disinfectant recipe for daily cleaning
Here we deliver the recipe for a multi-use hygiene product and multisurface (stainless steel, plastic, ceramic …). Its use is not effective against all viruses including covid-19 or coronavirus, but it is ideal for daily cleaning of your surfaces in the kitchen, bathroom or dining room. It provides healthy disinfection without fear for you or the environment.
Ingredients :
- White vinegar. It is a natural antimicrobial disinfectant. It will overcome most pathogenic viruses or bacteria.
- Baking soda. It is a natural degreaser and deodorant. It is also an excellent antibacterial.
- Lemon essential oil. It is known for its antiseptic and antibacterial properties.
- Some water
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In a spray bottle, mix 1/3 white vinegar with 2/3 hot water and add two tablespoons of baking soda. Add a few drops of lemon essential oil if necessary to reinforce the effectiveness of the product, once the water has cooled.
Be careful, essential oils are a precious product. They are to be used with care and measure. Even if their smell is pleasant, they are in no way used for their odoriferous power because they are too volatile to be effective at this level. In addition, essential oil can react with plastic. In this case, prefer a glass spray bottle.
How to use this natural disinfectant?
Spray this cleaner directly on your surfaces and wipe dry with a clean microfiber cloth. It is perfect for the daily hygiene of your home and will have no impact on your health or the environment. You can even use it to clean your fruits and vegetables. Simply rinse them with water after disinfecting them with this multi-use product.
Disinfectant product recipe for in-depth disinfection of the house
For a deeper disinfection and avoid the spread of a virus (especially the coronavirus) or bacteria in the event that a member of your household is ill, you can choose to disinfect your interior with a powerful bactericide using alcohol at 70 °
Ingredients :
- White vinegar
- Alcohol at 70 ° C, it is strong enough to eliminate all viruses and bacteria, even the toughest
Mix in a spray bottle 2/3 white vinegar with 1/3 alcohol at 70 °
How to use this disinfectant against microbes (viruses and bacteria)?
Spray the cleaner directly on the surface to be cleaned and let the product act for a few minutes.
Then wipe with a clean microfiber cloth
To limit the spread of microbes as much as possible, this cleaning should be carried out by focusing on the areas most affected such as door handles, switches, keyboards, toilets or kitchen surfaces.
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Good to know: our list of tips for cleaning up your home
- Ventilate at least 10 minutes every day. Germs love to be confined to the warmth of humid environments. A renewed air limits their proliferation. 10 minutes is enough! This is sufficient time to renew the air in a room while maintaining its temperature stable.
- Clean your bed linen regularly ! At least every two weeks. If you live with animals, are sick, or sweat a lot, clean it once a week.
- Take off your shoes when entering the house. The shoes bring back from the outside all the bacteria which are on the ground (fecal matter, urine, sputum, toxic products …), removing them at the entrance limits their propagation on the floors of your house.
- Regularly clean the most affected areas of the house (handles, switches, keyboards …)
- Wash your hands regularly with soap, before cooking, before eating, after using the toilet, after going out