My Puchased Cleaners vs. Homemade
All Purpose
Soft Scrub - for cleaning sinks
- Active Ingredients: Sodium hypochlorite
- Homemade:Window Cleaner - Windex, or most inexpensive
- Ingredients: Windex-like products typically contain detergents, ammonia, fragrance to moderate the odor of ammonia, and some form of dye.
- Homemade: 1/4-1/2 teaspoon liquid detergent, 3 tablespoons vinegar (or 1 Tbsp. lemon juice), 2 cups waterFurniture Polish
General Cleaner - Mr. Clean (w/ grease cutting agents), Spic 'n Span, Lysol
Rug Cleaner
Liquid Hand Soap
Febreeze - water, alcohol, odor eliminator derived from corn (Clenzaire (R)), fragrance
Ivory bar soap
Kitchen
Dawn Dish Detergent
- Ingredients:
- Homemade - didn't work as well as Cascade and the mixture hardened up making it hard to add it to the dishwasher.Awesome
Cascade Dishwasher Detergent
Bathroom
Scrubbing Bubbles - cleaning bath tub
- Ingredients:
- Homemade?Toilet Bowl Cleaner - RiteAid brand
- Ingredients:
- Homemade?Mold/Mildew Cleaner - Tilex
Laundry
Laundry Detergent - whatever on sale
- Ingredients:
- Homemade?Stain Stick - from Spray & Wash
- Ingredients: surfactants & enzymes
- Homemade?