Making cleaning products yourself has many advantages. Not only are they cheaper than chemical cleaners, but they're also better for your health and the environment.
Make cleaning products yourself
- Baking soda: Baking soda is a helpful home remedy and is suitable as a cleaning agent in the kitchen and bathroom. Soda, soda, citric acid and curd soap together are all-purpose cleaners for a wide variety of surfaces. Soda powder also helps with drain cleaning. Look here: drain clogged.
- Vinegar or Vinegar essence: A 1: 1 vinegar-water solution is suitable as a limescale remover or glass cleaner. If you don't like the smell of vinegar, you can add an essential oil. A homemade vinegar cleaner can do even more. It helps with cleaning windows and descaling the kettle and can be used as an oven cleaner. Take a look here: cleaning the oven.
- citric acid: A homemade citrus cleaner not only smells good, but is also a true all-purpose cleaner and descaling agent. Simply mix 2 to 3 tablespoons of citric acid with water and pour into an empty detergent bottle. Citric acid helps to clean the ceramic hob, clean the baking sheet, but also against stains. Take a look here: Remove red wine stains.
- Curd soap: We can also easily make liquid hand soap ourselves. For this we need 50 g curd soap and a liter of water (and optionally honey). Finely grate the soap and pour it into a saucepan with water and bring to the boil. Don't forget to stir. Let the whole thing cool down. Add honey and mix everything with a mixer. Curd soap can also be used as a bathroom cleaner. For example, when cleaning tiles.
You don't necessarily have to spend a lot of money on this or that special product: we can easily manufacture environmentally friendly cleaning aids ourselves from a few natural products. But beware: do not mix with conventional cleaning agents, this can lead to dangerous chemical reactions!
Clean silver
Many swear by the quick method with aluminum foil, salt and boiling water. But this also has disadvantages: at some point the silver no longer shines, knife blades have a greater tendency to rust. Better: make a paste from 1 tbsp whitening chalk and 3 tbsp spirit, apply it with a soft cloth in circular movements and let it dry. Polish with a cloth and rinse with hot water.
Clean crystal
Dull crystal glasses? Put about 1 tablespoon of crushed eggshells in each, fill up with the juice of a lemon and about half a glass of vinegar essence and leave to work overnight. Windows and mirrors can be cleaned streak-free with water and vinegar: fill in equal parts into a spray bottle, spray on and polish with newspaper.
Clean pots
Stainless steel, enamel or ceramic: all pots (especially their bases!) Need to be rubbed every now and then. A paste made from curd soap flakes (approx. 1/2 glass), cooking oil (6 tbsp), glycerine (3 tbsp), soda (2 tbsp) and whiting chalk (1 glass) has proven itself for this. Heat the soap and oil in a saucepan on low heat, remove from the heat and gradually mix in the other ingredients. Pour the mixture into a mason jar and let it set for 3-4 days. Pick up with moistened steel wool or a scraping sponge and work on the pots with it. The pots that have tarnished on the inside are filled in equal parts with water and vinegar essence, the mixture is allowed to boil and then soak in overnight.
Clean the knife
Sometimes ugly black spots appear on knife blades that cannot be easily removed. The magic remedy: a mix of cooking oil and wood ash that is rubbed in with a cloth. If it is rusty, use half an onion to rub in.
Moth aromatherapy
These DIY scented sachets only drive away the animals – not the people around them: 5 cloves, 2 cinnamon sticks, 2 vanilla sticks, 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg, peel of 2 lemons and 2 oranges each and 1 handful of rosemary needles crushed in a mortar, a few drops of aromatic oil (e .g Add bitter orange or lemon), fill into small cloth bags and distribute in the cupboard.