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How to Make Floor Cleaner

Making your own cleaning products is a great way to save money and control the use of chemicals in your home.

The recipes below use non-toxic ingredients.

If you store any of these, be sure to label them so you know what is in the container — and keep all household cleaners well out of reach of children and pets!

Here are our simple recipes floor cleaners that get the work done without adding all the chemicals.

Do not use vinegar on stone surfaces (such as granite, quartz, soapstone, slate, etc.) 

Inexpensive Floor Cleaner

Try one of these inexpensive homemade recipes for the super clean floor, minimal effort, and not your commercial bottled chemicals, plus you most likely already have the ingredients!

Floor Cleaner #1–

This is an all-purpose cleaner but works terrific on floors.

1/2 cup ammonia

1/4 cup vinegar

2 Tablespoons baking soda

1-gallon warm water

Mix and Mop

Floor Cleaner #2–

1/2 cup vinegar

1/2 gallon water

Mix and Mop

Wood Floor Cleaner

Few drops of dish soap

1 gallon of warm water

Mix and damp mop.

 

 

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Julee Morrison is an author and writer with over 35 years of experience in parenting and family recipes. She’s the author of four cookbooks: The Instant Pot College Cookbook, The How-To Cookbook for Teens, The Complete Cookbook for Teens, and The Complete College Cookbook.Available on Amazon,

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