Especially being pregnant, I have a hard time cleaning things due to the smell of my commercial cleaners. They're just overpoweringly strong and make me gag. Besides the fact that I shouldn't be breathing in that stuff anyway, I thought it was best to change to homemade cleaners.
One of my favorite recipes is 1 part dawn dish soap and 1 1/2 parts white vinegar mixed together in a spray bottle. It helps to warm up the vinegar first to get it to mix but it's not necessary (and it's definitely not necessary every time). I use this on my kitchen counters, mirrors and anything glass, appliances, bathroom and kitchen floors, showers,toilets, tubs, sinks, etc. Basically, EVERYTHING. It gets soap scum off. It removes hard water stains. It gets regular grime off. All without scrubbing. You can leave it on a surface for a few hours and come back to wipe clean the toughest of stains (instead of having to scrub and scrape).
For regular cleaning, I spray and wipe right away and rinse. For the tougher stuff, usually 10 minutes suffices but I did have some hard water stains that took more like 45 minutes to get off.
I even use this as a toilet bowl cleaner (when I can get our cheap spray bottles to spray upside down). With the dish soap, it clings easily like the commercial stuff.
This stuff is such a miracle cleaner and the ingredients are cheap! I did a side by side test (sorry I don't have pictures to prove it) with Lysol Kitchen Cleaner and this. This stuff won! I can't rave about it enough.
In your case, I think it’s safer for you to stay away from commercial cleaners as much as possible, Jamie. The chemicals could highly cause harm to your pregnant state. Of course I'm glad you're using homemade cleaners right now, as they'll do you better as opposed to chemically-induced ones. By the way, I'd love to see how the Lysol cleaner did against the homemade cleaner, so I hope you post photos soon. Thanks for sharing and all the best to you!
ReplyDeleteCourtney Morris @ Onyx Cleaning
I'm sorry I don't have pictures for you and now I don't have the Lysol cleaner so I am unable to take some. Basically, the Lysol can also clean the same surfaces as the homemade cleaner but it takes a lot more scrubbing, more spraying, and still tends to leave a residue on the surface.
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