04/03/2019 / By Zoey Sky
Most store-bought cleaning products are expensive, and they usually contain chemicals that are bad for your health and the environment. To save money, learn how to make natural cleaning products using affordable and non-toxic ingredients that you can find around the house. (h/t to TheOrganicPrepper.com)
If you use cleaning products regularly, you are often exposed to various chemicals that don’t leave your body. These chemicals may accumulate in your fat and bone marrow, and this is worrying because the ingredients in cleaning products aren’t always tested thoroughly.
It may seem like these products are helping you clean your house, but they could be slowly poisoning you. Cleaning products contain corrosive substances, irritating artificial fragrances, and petrochemicals.
These ingredients may cause immediate symptoms such as:
Toxic cleaning products are also linked to long-term health problems like:
It’s easy to make natural cleaning products using non-toxic ingredients. Buy these items in bulk if you want to save more money.
Keep these ingredients in your kitchen so you can make DIY cleaning products whenever you need them.
Using the ingredients listed above and some Mason jars, you can make different cleaning products.
Use this cleaner on real wood floors to make them gleam. Don’t use it on laminate flooring because the cleaner will only make your floor slippery.
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If you’re cleaning greasy floors, replace half of the water with white vinegar.
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Mix this wood surface cleaner whenever you need because the oil might go rancid.
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Visit Homesteading.news for more tips on how to make other kinds of natural cleaning products.
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