Old Home Remedies

With Reflexologist Nuria Weaver

Home Remedies for Cleaning

A healthy family lives in a clean home. A clean home also reflects the personality and lifestyle of the people living in it. You feel very awkward when someone enters your house and all the places and furniture are coated with dust. It is better to keep your home always clean and shining to avoid this situation. Home remedies for cleaning will help you do this. You will always be praised if your home is well managed.

Some people do not get the right way to manage home and keep it clean always. It is understood that you can not keep on cleaning all the time, but you can make a schedule of cleaning and make arrangements in such way that dust and dirt can be avoided. Using some home remedies is also a good option. This will save the money, you spend on cleaning products. The first thing people think about home remedies that they will consume a lot of time. Let us tell you, these remedies are not only easy but also time saving. They will make your home shiny without asking you to make too much effort.

Some home remedies for cleaning are mentioned below:

Cleaning floor:

A clean and shining floor beautifies the house but people generally avoid doing this as they find it very tough to do. It is actually not tough neither expensive. You will need some stuff for cleaning floor which you can arrange easily. All those things are

White vinegar
Toothpaste
Water
Dryer sheets
Dish detergent
Denture cleaner
Cloth
Lemon juice
Olive oil
Mineral oil
Lemon

Now lets us discuss how to start with cleaning. Do not just get started with. Cleaning should be in a proper way. Do all the work step by step. All the steps and actions are mentioned below.

Take bucket full of water and mix some detergent water in it. Mop the floor with this cleaning solution. This will give the floor a clean and shiny look. You can also use some scented fragrance with it.
Thyme is useful for getting rid of gooey molds. Take thyme and soak it in water for few days. Use this mixture to scrub down the icky area.
If you want your bathroom sink and tiles to be more white and shiny that you can use toothpaste as bleach.
To clean the chrome surface, you can wipe it with white vinegar. Just take a moist cloth and dip it with white vinegar to wipe the surface.
Denture cleaner oil works as good toilet cleaner. Spray it all over the toil bowl and leave it for the night. Use a brush to scrub bowl in the morning. You can also use vitamin c capsule if you do not want to use denture cleaner oil.
You can also make your own room freshener at home instead of using air freshener spray or other market products. Take a cotton ball and dip it with you favorite scent to be saturate. Put this in an open container to spread the scent every where. If you want a strong fragrance for any special occasion, just put the scented cotton ball n the light bulb. The heat released from light bulb will spread the fragrance every where.

Cleaning windows:

There is wide range of window cleaning products in market. People prefer taking these products because they find it very hectic to clean windows but most of these cleaning products contain chemicals and toxins heavily. Here we will discuss some remedies for cleaning which are easy as well as environmental friendly.

Vinegar is most common and effective home remedy for cleaning windows. Take vinegar in a damp cloth and clean the window glasses with it. You can use it directly from bottle or dilute it with water.
A combination of dish wash soap and vinegar also works nice for cleaning windows. Just add 1/4 cup of vinegar and 1/2 teaspoon dish wash soap with 2 cup water. This solution is good for cleaning windows.
If your windows are not foggy then you can also use a chalkboard eraser as a window or glass wiper. Simply wipe the window with chalkboard eraser to have a clean view.
If you have got some paint on the windows then nail paint remover is ideal for cleaning. Apply nail paint remover on stains and allow it to be there for few minutes. This will clean all the marks of paint.

Home remedies for cleaning given below will be very helpful to reduce your efforts of cleaning. You can easily keep your home clean with these remedies.