Easy DIY Natural Cleaning Recipes

Homemade natural cleaning recipes are a great way to cut down on all those unwanted risky chemicals in our home cleaning products.

And we can actually make effective DIY cleaning products quickly and easily with simple natural disinfectants and WITHOUT a long list of expensive essential oils!!

So if you want cheap nontoxic cleaning products for your home check out these natural recipes.

This simple guide will get your whole home clean naturally, so do bookmark or pin for later.

Cleaning Recipe Index

General Cleaning Products

• All Purpose Cleaning Spray
• Natural Disinfectant Spray

Kitchen Cleaning Products

• Grotty Sink Cleaner
• Oven Cleaner

Bathroom Cleaning Products

• All Over Bathroom Cleaner
• Quick Shower Cleaner
• Toilet Cleaners

Dusting & Polishing

• Dusting Spray
• Window Cleaner
• All Purpose Floor Cleaner
• Wooden Floor Cleaner

Essential Ingredients For Natural Cleaning Products

You can make all the natural cleaning products with just a few essential ingredients :

• White vinegar
• Pure vodka
• Lemons
• Baking soda / bicarbonate of soda
• Hydrogen peroxide or in its dried form sodium percarbonate
• Castile soap – you don’t have to buy that famous pricey brand, you can buy cheaply in bulk
• Or a low chemical dish soap, I use this British made brand
• Distilled water.

DIY Distilled Water

Water based natural cleaning products will store better longer made with distilled water. You can very easily make your own …

Safety & Storage Of DIY Natural Cleaning Products

Natural cleaning products can like commercial cleaning products be toxic for humans and animals.

They include fewer risky chemicals but we still need to use them carefully and store them safely.

We also need to balance the risks of synthetic chemicals against the risk of bacteria and infection for our families at different times.

I mostly use DIY cleaning products but a nasty digestive bug in the family or a pet changes the risks for me, so I do stock a commercial disinfectant for occasional use.

All Purpose Cleaning Spray

For an all purpose natural cleaning spray to cut through grease and grime easily, mix in a spray bottle :

1. 2 tbsp of Castile soap or 1 tbsp low chemical dish soap with
2. DIY distilled water to fill bottle
3. And spray and wipe away.

If you don’t have distilled water and just want enough spray for a quick clean, add 1 teaspoon of Castile or dish soap to a cup of hot water, give it a good shake and use right away.

Most of the time soap and water really is all we need to contain grease, grime and germs effectively!!

Natural Disinfecting Sprays

Simple DIY disinfectant sprays are useful for areas of our home more at risk of persistent germs :

• Basic Disinfectant Spray
• Lemon & Vinegar Spray
• Lemon & Vodka Spray

Basic Disinfectant Spray

The best quick, cheap way to make a natural disinfectant spray is to mix in a spray bottle equal parts of :

• White vinegar
• Distilled water.

This disinfectant spray will also polish up windows and mirrors naturally and incredibly cheaply.

The downside of a basic vinegar spray is of course the smell. But there are great smelling alternatives.

Lemon & Vinegar Spray

To combine the natural disinfectant power of vinegar with the fragrant disinfectant power of lemon :

1. Fill a jar with leftover citrus rinds.
2. Cover with white vinegar.
3. Steep – i.e. soak – for 1-3 weeks.
4. Shake occasionally.
5. Put through a sieve.
6. Pour into spray bottle.

Lemon & Vodka Spray

For a great smelling and very effective natural lemon disinfectant spray you can make ahead & store :

1. Put rinds of 4 lemons in a jar.
2. Cover with high proof, plain vodka.
3. Leave in cupboard for 2-4 weeks.
4. Strain liquid into a spray bottle.

Grotty Sink Cleaner

The absolutely best way to keep kitchen sinks sparkly is to clean them religiously daily. But that doesn’t always happen (!!) so they do get grotty and need a deep clean :

• Porcelain Sink Cleaner
• Stainless Steel Sink Cleaner
• Natural Sink Polisher
• How To Disinfect Sink Fast

Porcelain Sink Cleaner

The easiest way to deep clean a porcelain sink is to before bed:

1. Quickly wipe over sink with Castile or dish soap and rinse down.
2. Squirt a good dollop of Castile or dish soap into the sink.
3. Plonk a tablespoon of baking soda / bicarbonate on top of it.
4. Roughly mix with a cloth.
5. Rub all over sink focusing on grotty corners, spots, cracks & nicks.
6. Leave on over night.
7. Rub thoroughly over sink in morning and then rinse off well.

For extra oomph cleaning a porcelain sink wipe a little hydrogen peroxide over sink in morning and leave for 5 minutes before rinsing.

Stainless Steel Sink Cleaner

You can clean a stainless steel sink quickly simply by scrubbing with baking soda and hot water.

For extra cleaning power combine baking soda with half a lemon, using lemon as your scrubber!

Tackle persistent grotty, tarnished and dark spots by rubbing in :

• A little white vinegar or
• 1 teaspoon hydrogen peroxide mixed with 2 tsp of cream of tartar.

Natural Sink Polisher

It sounds bonkers, but you can actually polish up a stainless sink naturally fast with plain flour!!

All you need to do is :

1. Quickly clean and rinse the sink.
2. Dry with dish or polishing cloth.
3. Sprinkle flour thickly over sink.
4. Buff sink with a rag!!

How To Disinfect Sink Fast

Many of us have a single multi-purpose sinks we have to use for food prep, laundry, DIY, the lot!!

The quickest, easiest way to disinfect a sink between uses is simply to :

1. Remove bits, wipe down & rinse.
2. Put plug in.
3. Fill with kettle of boiling water.
4. Leave for 5 minutes.

DIY Bathroom Cleaner

You can easily make a natural soft scrub cleaner to tackle bathroom soap scuds and mildew with:

• 1/2 cup baking soda.
• 1/4 cup Castile soap or dish soap.
• 1/2 tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide or sodium percarbonate.

Apply to baths, basins and showers with a cloth or scrubbing brush. Leave on for 5 minutes. Then rinse off with a damp cloth.

Natural Dusting Spray

Staying on top of dust really can help family members sensitive to allergies but commercial dusting sprays may actually trigger allergies themselves.

You can make your own natural dusting spray easily with :

• 1 cup of distilled water
• 1/4 cup of white vinegar
• Lemon juice (to balance vinegar)
• 2 tbsp olive oil or coconut oil.

Natural Oven Cleaner

Industrial force chemicals can seem the only option if your oven is filthy.

But you can whip up your own natural oven cleaner fast with :

• 1/2 cup baking soda / bicarb
• 1 tablespoon Castile or dish soap.

Simply mix together in a bowl to make a thick paste and to use :

1. Wipe over oven racks.
2. Wipe over inside of oven door.
3. Leave for 30 minutes.
4. Wipe off with a slightly damp cloth.
5. Or scrub heavily engrained dirt a wire wool scrubber.

It is so easy this way to clean the oven naturally that we are far more likely to do it regularly which means it gets easier and easier!!

Natural Toilet Cleaner

Toilets do need frequent disinfecting frequently and can get horrid stains but we can still tackle these with natural toilet cleaning products :

• Quick Cheap DIY Toilet Cleaner
• Natural Cream Toilet Cleaner
• Natural Toilet Stain Remover
• Natural Toilet Cleaning Bombs

Cheap DIY Toilet Cleaner

The cheapest way to disinfect your toilet without forking out for a fancy eco friendly toilet cleaner is simply to combine in a squeezy bottle :

• 1/4 cup vinegar
• A few tiny drops of dish soap

The fragrance of the dish soap will offset the vinegar and help give your toilet a really good shine.

But do go very easy on the dish soap else you’ll have bubbles everywhere!!

Natural Cream Toilet Cleaner

If you want a natural cream toilet cleaner simply combine :

• 1 tablespoon of sodium bicarbonate or percarbonate
• 1/2 tablespoon of Castile soap.

This is one natural cleaning recipe where you can’t swap dish soap for Castile soap as the amount you need for a creamy cleaner will have bubbles over flowing on the floor.

Natural Toilet Stain Remover

To clean horrid stains off the bottom of a toilet, last thing at night :

1. Pour in 1/2 cup of white vinegar.
2. Rub into stain with loo brush.
3. Leave overnight.
4. Rub again with brush in morning.
5. Then flush.

Natural Toilet Cleaning Bombs

If you want a natural toilet cleaner ready to go you could make these toilet cleaning bombs …

Quick Shower Cleaner

Showers can be a nightmare to clean with soap build up and pesky mildew all over the tile grouting.

But you can whip up a quick natural shower cleaner fast by combining :

• 1/2 cup of white vinegar
• 1/2 cup of low chemical dish soap but NOT Castile soap
• Lemon juice or essential oil to offset vinegar smell.

To use your natural shower cleaner simply :

• Spray all over shower.
• Leave on for a few minutes.
• Or 15 minutes if super grotty.
• Rinse off.

Natural Window Cleaner

I rarely recommend products but I do think the e-Cloth window cleaning cloth is the best quick way to clean windows naturally.

All you have to do is :

• Wipe windows with damp waffle cloth
• Dry off with the polishing cloth!!!

Living in London my windows get filthy but the window cleaning cloth has them sparkly in no time.

It is also completely safe for putting your children to work helping out and earning their keep 😉

Wooden Floor Cleaner

There’s a great debate about the best way to clean wooden floors naturally.

Some people swear the best method is to mop with a combination of :

• 1/4 cup of olive oil.
• 1/2 cup of white vinegar.
• 4 cups of hot water.
• Enough lemon juice to offset vinegar.

Whilst others swear that the vinegar damages the wood and the best cleaner is :

• 1 teaspoon of Castile soap.
• 4 cups of warm water.
• 5 drops or so of almond oil
• Or a tablespoon of olive oil.

Personally I go for the Castile soap but that is not based on any science at all!!

Whichever method you choose, make sure your mop or floor cleaner is only slightly damp – you definitely don’t want your wooden floor soggy.

All Purpose Floor Cleaner

If you want an all purpose quick floor cleaner you can use on all floors, combine in a spray bottle :

• 1 cup of unflavoured vodka
• 1 cup of distilled water
• A few tiny drops of dish soap.

Simply spray your natural floor cleaner onto the floor and quickly mop around to get it shining.

And there you go, a whole load of quick and easy natural cleaning recipes to keep your home clean.

Do bookmark or pin the guide!!

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• Get Rid Of Ants
• Get Rid Of Flies

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