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Homemade All-Purpose Cleaner with Essential Oils

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Natural cleaners are better for our health and better for the environment. This homemade all-purpose cleaner with essential oils takes minutes to make, is cost effective, cleans well and smells amazing. Read on to find out how to make natural all purpose homemade cleaner so that you have a gorgeous smelling all purpose spray to hand whenever you need to clean!

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Chemical Free Cleaning and Why It's Important To Me

Since having children I have become very aware of all the chemicals that we use in our home. It's actually quite frightening if you sit down and think about it. We have no idea what these chemicals are doing to our health and how they interact with each other and I am slowly removing them from our house. Of course I needed something to replace them with so I decided to try making my own natural cleaning products and I have been really happy with the results. 

How To Make Natural All Purpose Cleaner

Daily Cleaning Routine

Do you have a cleaning routine? We have four children, a dog and a cat so I have to be on top of the cleaning and tidying or the house soon becomes a huge mess. There are certain jobs that I do every day such as hoovering the floor with our robot hoover, cleaning the toilets and bathroom sinks and wiping down the kitchen counter tops and table.

This all purpose homemade cleaner is perfect for cleaning the kitchen surfaces and table and I also use it to generally dust the whole house. It makes the house smell amazing and because it's got soap and oils in, it also acts as a dust repellant in a natural way so furniture doesn't attract dust as quickly after I have used it. 

What you will need to make this natural all purpose cleaner

The key ingredient of diy cleaners are essential oils . I used lemon essential oil, orange essential oil and tea tree oil. The combination smells delicious. Try out a few variants but make sure to research properties of essential oils as some are unsafe for use with pets and some have particular benefits that make them good for cleaning such as antibacterial or antimicrobial properties. Always buy the best *essential oils that you can afford as they will be better quality.  Test out of a few essential oil combinations until you find the essential oil blend you like.

Distilled water. It's recommended to use distilled water because it doesn't harbour bacteria. You can buy it *online, in pharmacies and larger supermarkets. 

*Castile soap. Castile soap is a great product to have in the house as you can use it for so many things, especially if you are trying to make more of your own natural products. It is a vegetable based soup and is free from animal fats and synthetic ingredients. It is natural, non-toxic and biodegradable. 

I use amber spray bottles to store my natural cleaning products. The amber glass helps to prevent the essential oils from degrading due to sunlight. I use a glass bottle as it is more eco-friendly than using plastic and also I worry about the plastic leaching from the bottle into the cleaning liquid.

It really is very easy to make your own cleaners so please don't be daunted. Once you have got into the routine it will take you 5 minutes each time - quicker than going to the shops! Before too long you will have lots of DIY cleaning recipes and know exactly what your favorite essential oils are. You will never want to go back to chemical cleaners again.

Ingredients

See the recipe card below for exact quantities. 

Pick your essential oils according to their smells, your taste and also their properties, such as antibacterial properties. The nice thing about this cleaner is that it made from simple ingredients and is free of harsh chemicals and isn't acidic due to lemon juice or smelling awful with a vinegar scent like other homemade products.

Instructions

  1. Pour everything into an amber bottle and shake to combine.
  2. You can combine different essential oils, for example, 10 drops of tea tree essential oil, 10 of eucalyptus and 10 of geranium. As long as the total amount of drops of essential oil is 30.  
  3. Give it a good shake before each use.
  4. Store away from sunlight in an amber coloured glass bottle.
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Natural cleaners are better for our health and better for the environment. This homemade all-purpose cleaner with essential oils takes minutes to make, is cost effective, cleans well and smells amazing. Read on to find out how to make natural all purpose homemade cleaner.

  • Author: Ali Davies
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Total Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients

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  • 450 ml distilled water
  • 2 Tablespoons castile soap
  • 30 drops essential oils

Instructions

  1. Pour everything into an amber bottle and shake to combine.
  2. Shake before each use.
  3. Store away from sunlight.

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I have made a video which shows me making this natural cleaning recipe if you prefer a visual guide. Bonus points if you watch it as my youngest is with me when he was a baby!

How to use Homemade All-Purpose Cleaner with Essential Oils

You generally use them in the same way that you use a regular commercial cleaners - spray them onto an (ideally) washable cloth or paper towel and wipe the surface down. I have a tub of microfiber cloth squares I use for cleaning and then pop in a hot wash afterwards. If you are worried about the type of surface you have, make sure to do a test patch first. This cleaner doesn't contain any harsh ingredients like hydrogen peroxide, chlorine bleach or white vinegar so it is generally quite a gentle cleaner suitable for most hard surfaces.

What can I use this all purpose cleaner on?

I would test this cleaner on an inconspicuous area that you want to use it on to make sure it doesn't cause any damage. I use it to clean painted wooden furniture, laminate kitchen counters, oilcloth tablecloths and to generally wipe over surfaces with. It is one of the best multi-purpose cleaners I have used to be honest and a great way to keep your home clean and smelling good too.

I hope that you like this natural all purpose cleaner recipe and that it helps you to reduce your chemical use in your home by only using natural ingredients. Natural cleaning solutions and homemade cleaners are the way forward and you will soon like them better than store-bought cleaners. If you have friends who like homemade cleaning products or essential oil cleaning recipes share this post with them and don't forget to Pin it for later.

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