Now more than ever it is crucial for all of us to take good care of our health. Over these months I have been using more my Essential Oils to create my own teas, recipees and even my own cleaning powders and hand cream.
Many cleaning products that we use daily are full of toxic fragances to make them more sellable in the market. Let’s all take a challenge and make it simple for us to use a basic harmful ingredients to clean our home or work spaces by using the cheap options that we have available at home, vinegar, baking soda, soap,water in combination with your favorite essential oils that bring us so many benefits.
By incorporating Essential oils to your homemade cleaners, you are not only adding natural fragance but also adding some beneficial properties for your health.
Some of my favorites are lemon, orange, lemongrass and lavender.
Here I will share with you weekly natural easy cleaners for your home, so join me in this new challenge to create a more healthy environment for our families.
Today I would like to share with you some uses of vinegar.
Floor Cleaner
By incorporating Essential oils to your homemade cleaners, you are not only adding natural fragance but also adding some beneficial properties for your health.
Some of my favorites are lemon, orange, lemongrass and lavender.
Here I will share with you weekly natural easy cleaners for your home, so join me in this new challenge to create a more healthy environment for our families.
Today I would like to share with you my simple Floor Cleaner with Vinegar:
Some may like it and some may avoid it, but it is up to us to try new things that help us to be safer and also save us some money in cleaning products.
Ingredients:
2 litres hot water
1/2 Cup White Vinegar
5 to 10 drops Essential Oil such as Lemon, Lemongrass, Lavender, Tea tree, peppermint or grapefruit.
Explore it starting with small amounts to test it if you like it first and feel free to explore other essential oils to be used.
Simply mixed it all in a bucket and stir it together and it’s done! get your mop into the solution and ready to clean your floor.
Glass and Mirror Cleaner
Many of us have been using this simple ingredients to clean around the house but now it is time for you to try it.
1/3 cup White Vinegar
1/2 cup rubbing alcohol
warm water
add a few drops of Essential oil such as Lemon or lavender.
Add the vinegar and alcohol into a spray bottle and fill it in till full with water.
The vinegar aroma will be gone after a while.
Natural Bathroom scrub
You can make your bathroom smell like orange or lemon or any of your favorite essential oils by simply adding a few drops to your natural bathroom scrub.
I use this combination to scrub my tub, shower and sink and even the shower floor:
Ingredients:
1 packet of Baking Soda
1 to 2 Tbsp Soap (Castile soap )
2 tsp of Lemongrass Essential Oil (
Remember to use gloves when dealing with lemongrass essential oil as it may cause some skin reactions.
Stir all the ingredients with a fork and put it in a glass bottle or jar. Simply splash with warm water before you spread the scrub powder and leave it for 10 minutes before scrubbing the surfaces to be cleaned.
DIY Hand sanitizer
Specially now that everywhere I look I can not find hand sanitizers on the shelf as they are going off.
Simply let’s make our own by using two ingredients:
Alcohol/ or any desinfectant spirit you have at home
10- 15 drops of On Guard Essential Oil
Put it in a small glass bottle, easier for you to carry it on your handbag everywther you go.
Of course we then need to apply a small amount of Aloe Vera to make it less drying for your skin. So it would be useful to also carry a small bottle with Aloe Vera gel to apply as needed to soften and prevent our skin to dry.
Remember always to use gloves when you are cleaning and using Essential Oils as some sensitivities can occur.
My mantra is to choose to be safe and healthy at home in our daily lifes .
Small changes bring big improvements.
Love,
Maite