Save Money With Homemade Cleaning Supplies

Are you sick and tired of spending your hard earned money on expensive cleaning supplies? This post has recipes for homemade cleaning supplies to use in every room in your house!

Using homemade cleaning supplies is one of the easiest ways to save money!

Most recipes, for cleaning supplies, include the same or similar ingredients, plus you can add any fragrance that you like.

Why bother spending your hard earned money on expensive cleaning supplies that are full of chemicals?

Homemade cleaning supplies not only work great, but, they smell good and they cost pennies to make, too. Plus, homemade cleaners use natural ingredients that are so much healthier to use around your children and your pets!

Below you’ll find some of my favorite homemade cleaner recipes. Try them out – you’ll never want to go back to store-bought cleaners again…

Recipes for Homemade Cleaning Supplies

All-Purpose Cleaner

1 cup white vinegar
2 cups water
10-20 drops orange essential oil
24 oz. spray bottle

Pour vinegar and water into a large spray bottle. Add essential oil and shake to combine. Use this mixture to clean your kitchen, bathroom and most other hard surfaces in your house.

Carpet Deodorizer

1 cup baking soda
10-15 drops essential oils

Combine baking soda and essential oils in a recycled mason jar.

Sprinkle all over your carpet. Allow the mixture to sit for 10 to 15 minutes. Vacuum as usual.

Dishwasher Detergent

1 cup each of borax, washing soda and white vinegar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract, optional

Get the recipe here!

Laundry Soap

Fels-Naptha laundry soap bar
Borax – 65 oz box
Washing soda – 55 oz box
Small tub oxygen laundry booster
Scent booster crystals (optional)
1-3 gallon bucket/container or 3-1 gallon buckets/containers

Get the recipe here!

Toilet Bowl Cleaner

1/2 cup baking soda
1 cup white vinegar
1 cup hot water

Sprinkle baking soda in the toilet and let it sit for 5 to 10 minutes.

Combine vinegar and water in a small bowl. Pour into the toilet and let it sit for another 5 to 10 minutes.

Flush! Your toilet will be sparkling clean.

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Have a Great Day!

~Vanessa

Vanessa Hamlin

Vanessa Hamlin is the owner and founder of Food Life Design and VLHamlinDesign. With her passion for frugal living and homesteading, Vanessa loves to write about easy recipes, making money, gardening, home remedies and everything else that a good life entails! When she’s not writing for Food Life Design or creating products for VLHamlinDesign, you’ll find Vanessa reading, drawing, gardening, cooking or spending time with her family.