3 Great Natural Cleaning Products

Warning this post contains grot and grim that will turn your stomach, the gross yukness of this post has been allowed to build up for the purposes of this post and not because i have been drinking to many gin cocktails and haven't been bothered to clean.

I really am loving NOT buying those expensive cleaning products and mixing up batches of my home made cheaper and frankly far better than the overpriced and branded products in the shops, i know whats in mine which are more natural, non toxic and what they can do and having 3 THINGS that can pretty much clean my house is GREAT!!  I have been cleaning with these now for almost a year and really haven't looked back.

my 3 favorite cleaning products are

Citric Acid great at limescale removal with out scrubbing, softens water, removes rust ( they use this on old ships and planes they life from the sea they want to preserve for history) even removes wax and grease without scrubbing.  Safe product used in cosmetic and food.

White Vinegar Anti bacterial, kills mould, removes odors, stains, removes soap scum, removes grease, shines floors, cleans windows great all round cleaner non toxin

Barcarbonate of soda Freshens and removes odors,  Cleans silver, removes scuff marks, de greases, great in laundry, softens burnt on food, removes mould, drain cleaner, carpet cleaner,  non toxic 

Let me show you how quick and easy these are to use all of which can be bought off the internet easily, the below i used my spray gun with 100% vinegar and 2-3 spoons of citric acid as they were hard core jobs, i have a second bottle which is a 50/50 mix of water and vinegar and this is great as an all purpose cleaner.

I have left my kitchen tap for two weeks for limescale and grot to build up, i mixed up in a spray bottle white vinegar and a couple of spoons of citric acid gave it a shake before spraying.  Sprayed over my tap and left it for 30 seconds ( slurp of tea) and wiped it over with a cloth no scrubbing and WOW shiny Tap.

I didn't notice this until i posted the pictures but where the spray went on the wood by accident it killed off the black mould !!!  i think i will go back and get the rest.

Dishwasher grim down the side of the doors and hinges are a bugger to clean, sorry the first grot picture might be hard to see due to my flash going off but trust me grim is lurking there.  In a cup i mixed up white vinegar, a spoon of citric acid and enough Bic soda to make a fizzing paste.  The reason for making a paste is the dishwasher needed a deeper clean and just spraying vinegar and citric would run off using the bic soda makes the product stick to the upright parts and also add OXYGEN power cleaning which seems to be the latest craze that companies want to charge you extra for, those little bubble really do get under and lift of the dirt.

Ok the dreaded LOO we have a second loo and i have deliberately left this for 2 months before cleaning HOW GROSS but i really want to show you how amazing this is, there is a reason people throw cheap cola down there loos, citric acid power!!!

i mixed 1 liter of white vinegar with 4-5 tbsps of citric acid, i also added lemon verbena fragrance oil to make a lovely fresh smell around the loo, i keep this in a spray gun and go round once a down and put a few squirts around the loo to get rid of limescale, stains and germs.  For a dirty loo like below i  threw a mixture some of mixture down and left  for 6 hours and Bling Bling, and this is before i have even scrubbed it, not that i will need to scrubbed my loo now.