The 5 most TOXIC cleaners in your home and safe DIY alternatives!
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5 DIY Recipes to Replace Toxic Cleaners in Your Home!
Many of you comment about not wanting to use toxic cleaning products in your home - and for obvious reasons - they smell, are dangerous to have around the house, and the DIY alternatives are safer and in most cases, just as effective.
Here are 5 of the very worst offenders for toxic cleaners and how to make homemade versions for a more enjoyable cleaning experience!
** Drain Cleaner **
Commercial drain cleaners are among the most dangerous of all cleaning products. Most contain corrosive ingredients such as sodium hydroxide and sodium hypochlorite (bleach) that can permanently burn eyes and skin. Many can be fatal if ingested.
Here's a DIY Drain Cleaner:
1 Cup Salt
1 Cup Baking Soda
1/4 Cup cream of tartar
Mix in a bowl.
Using 1/4 cup of the mixture at a time, pour it down the drain
followed by 2 cups of boiling water.
Wait at least one minute before repeating
The boiling water changes the chemical composition of the ingredients and makes it strong enough to eat through grease and grime. This method may take few tries, but it often does the trick!
** Toilet Bowl Cleaner (Can also be used in the shower/tub) **
The corrosive ingredients in toilet bowl cleaners are severe eye, skin and respiratory irritants. Some toilet bowl cleaners contain sulfates, which may trigger asthma attacks in those with asthma and sodium hypochlorite (bleach) which can irritate lungs and burn eyes, skin.
Here's a DIY Toilet Bowl Cleaner:
1/2 cup baking soda
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup dish soap
1/4 hydrogen peroxide
15 drops tea tree oil
** Oven Cleaner **
One of the primary ingredients in oven cleaner is Sodium Hydroxide, more commonly known as Lye. If you remember that scene from Fight Club, then you know what this stuff can do to human skin. Hint - nothing good!
Here's a DIY Oven Cleaner:
1 cup baking soda
4 tablespoons dish soap
1/2 cup vinegar
15 drops (sweet) orange essential oil - GREAT DEGREASER
Make a heavy paste, leave for several hours or overnight, wipe up with clean water.
** Degreaser **
Much like oven cleaner degreasers contain a variety of potentially harmful chemicals which when inhaled can have serious side effects.
Here's a DIY Degreaser:
1/2 cup baking soda
1/4 cup dish soap
20 drops sweet orange EO
** Bleach **
Bleach is a highly toxic and dangerous chemical. Bleach causes respiratory problems and the fumes should never be inhaled.
Bleach can also burn the skin.
Here's a DIY Bleach:
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 cup 3% hydrogen peroxide
3/4 cup washing soda
water
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My favourite recipe is the 50/50 vinegar and dish liquid in a spray bottle for cleaning the shower. This trick has changed my life and I have shown it to a lot of people.
0511marie I must be doing wrong. When I have used these 2 items to clean with, I just don't notice it working very well. 🙁
+Sheri Clements I usually put it in one of those wand scrubbers that holds the mixture, and scrub with the sponge. To me, it's much more effective.
0511marie I use this too! also 50/50 water and white vinegar for regular cleaning. doesn't smell the best, but it doesn't bother me.
what else can you use this spray mix for?
@@anon4449 My sister in law said she used it for pre treating her son's dirty play clothes. I've used it to get gunky stuck on stuff off of the bottoms of cooking pans-but I soak them in this for awhile.
Absolutely love this video, not because it's unique, but because you take the time to explain what each ingredient does - which is super respectful to anyone with a science background struggling to keep their house clean! Thanks a lot!
Although i am in Hospitality Industry from last 14+ years as Senior Operations Manager Housekeeping I was not aware of lot of things but you taught me thank you #Housekeeping Guruji
This is so timely! I'm about to start spring cleaning, so this is perfect! I use your DIY all purpose cleaner and disinfectant/glass cleaner, and will for sure be using the oven cleaner. Thanks!
My favorite so far is an all purpose cleaner inspired by your recipe. But I've added few drops of peppermint oil (combined with tea tree oil) since it has anti-bacterial property too and will wade cockroaches :) we love the smell as well!! Smelling something great when I'm cleaning helps me enjoy the process
I love when you post these kinds of videos ❤️ i hate the smell harsh cleaning products have and all of these are such wonderfully smelling alternatives
I used the degreaser after reading your book. It is the BOMB! It really works so well!
I used the DIY recipe for the oven today and it was the first time since I've purchased it that I saw the actual surface - thank you :)
Always looking for more non toxic cleaning solutions. Love it!!
I love DIY cleaning products and especially yours!!!!! thank you, I follow you already for a while and did the DIY since you show it for the first time, it never disappoints me! thank you
Thank you for taking the time to list all the recipes for us!
You're amazing. I'm moving in a few weeks, so recipes like these will actually really help save money.
The all purpose cleaner is one of my favorite recipes. Orange, lemon, lavender are a few of my favorite Essential oil to use.
Thanks for your lovely advice, These videos genuinely relax me so much
Forgot to tell u , all your cleaning videos are really helpful and come handy. Thanks a lot and keep up the good work!!!
Wow. Thank you for these tips. My bathroom sink wasn't draining properly, and it was really bothering me. I tried your drain formula and it drains perfectly now. You're my new best friend.:)
Thank you for your DIY recipe for cleaning! my asthma has been extremely bad this year, so I'm definitely going to try this out. Love all your videos btw :-)
holy cow i love love love your top! ✨💕
Great info! Thank you so much for this video and all of your videos have helped! :)
I found your site while looking for recipes. Very glad I did. My favorite ones are glass cleaner and tile floor cleaner. I was shocked and pleased the first time I used them. 👏
I loved this video, thank you for the info and the great recipes! You look so great, outfit and hair!! Yas queen
I have been using all the cleaners available in the market such as Lysol and Scrubbing bubbles. The smell is so intense that I can't breathe. I'm surely goin to give the DIY recipes a try. Thank you for such informative videos.
My favorite DIY cleaner is 1 part white vinegar to 2 parts water. It is excellent for quickly wiping counters and as a base for baking soda cleansers. You can also add 1 part hydrogen peroxide to the base mix, put in a spray bottle and spray it on pesty concrete mould. Do this in the morning on a warm sunny day and the mould will be gone in 24 -48 hours. Loooove it!
You're the best
I love any natural cleaner because of my respiratory problems i can't use harsh chemicals so i have wrote down all of your DIY recipes and am going to try them. Hopefully i won't be spending several days recovering then have to do it all over again. It is a never ending cycle of. Cleaning a big nasty apartment that has piled up then recovering from respiratory problems and skin irritations just for the mess to have piled up again. So thank you for alternatives to stop this cycle.
Favorite DIY cleaner..my quartz counter top cleaner, floor cleaner and shower. ALL from you!!! I have been on the look out for a toilet bowl cleaner... I now have one!
I am trying to go all natural. I loved you channel. Thank you!!
I'm just getting into making diy cleaners and such. This video was very informative. Thank you
My favorite shower cleaner is a solution of a 1:1 ratio of vinegar and blue Dawn! I keep a dish scrubbing brush in my shower with this concoction and clean it about once a week and it stays sparkling clean - even works on grout!
katiejanesays Dawn is toxic to environment. See ingredients. Mes... Something. Bad.
I use car wax on the shower doors after they're cleaned. It repels the water and prevents hard water stains.🤔
Since vinegar breaks down soap, I think the elbow grease from your scrubbing brush is what is really doing the work.
Great video, definitely gonna be trying these out 😁
My favorite diy recipe is the all purpose cleaner. One cup of white vinegar, one cup of water and a few drops of dish soap. It literally cleans everything and sometimes i put a few drops of lemon grass essential oil to make it smell good. I love all your diy cleaners and I have gotten rid of all the toxic ones. I feel a lot better when the grandkids are around
Sodium hydroxide (lye) is used in making soap. Soap can not be made without using lye. Being a person who loves making my own soap, I can tell you, it is dangerous until it is cooked or heated. Or you can let your soap sit for about 6 weeks. (I don't have that kind of patience.) Basic soap has three ingredient's, water, fat and lye. All soap has these three ingredients. Usually a lot more is added to it. Just thought you might enjoy knowing there is a good use for lye.
Soapmaker here too!
Well, they used to use adipocere for making soap as well, so....
And ashes...one of the best cleaning ingredients used for making soap the very old fashioned way, as you likely know...
True. All soap has lye. I didn’t know lye was actually sodium hydroxide. My high school freshman science teacher has us each take a sniff of it as she held the jug. I do suggest most people stay away from the pure form, unless making soap or having a good knowledge of its toxicity and danger. I’ll never forget that experience!
If bleach whitens and disinfects, then isn’t that considered a cleaner? I’m not a fan of bleach, and but I do believe it “cleans.” No? Please explain!
The diy toilet unclog is a life saver lol i def need to make that bleach tho! Ive been refusing to use bleach cause of the damage, but i need the whitening. Love these diy videos!
This was awesome!!! Thanks so much dear
I love your videos, please make more!!
Add me to all who love that blouse! My favorite DIY's are the (so-called) toilet bombs , dishwasher detergent & laundry detergent I make. I keep a container of the toilet bombs in both bathrooms & toss 1 in the toilets daily. I mix baking soda, citric acid, a few drops of essential oil ( I use lemon or grapefruit or peppermint most often)...then just a small amount of water.
I put mixture into a silicone ice cube tray. let it sit until next day. Pop them out, put them in container. They really do a great job keeping toilets fresh & clean.
I would suggest spritzing water into mixture...just a little at a time...too much water causes an overflow after the mixture is in a mold. It needs very little water. I make them often because I toss one in our toilets daily.
Great! Thanks! I sing Wagner, now I will respect that name even more!
Sodium hydroxide is used for soap making. After the saponification process and curing it is safe to use on our skin. It can also be found in some beauty products, etc lotions for your face. I do love the home made recipes.
I love your outfit in this video. You always look fantastic. Fun fact: lutefisk is a Norwegian dish where you soak fish (my great grandma used herring) and soak it in lye. They legit eat it as a treat at Christmas 🤢
Thank you so much for these recipes - very helpful I like the drain cleaner very much !
Wondering if it's possible to substitute the cream of tartar with citric acid since the cream of tartar is rather expensive here.
Thanks
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The oven cleaning method works great! I let my fiancé do the task with reading this chapter in her book and the results were unbelievable! My father tried to clean the oven with the regular store version and it wasn’t even close to be clean like in Melisa’s method! Recommend 👍
And my favorite diy is the one for glasses and windows! Changed my life, showed it to my mother and she got exited! I sometimes use it as a fast all purpose cleaner and it works as well
I like your DIY cleaning recipe TFS
I'll definitely try the bleach DIY. Thanks for the tips.❤❤
Stain remover : 1 part Dawn dish soap & baking soda with 2 parts of liquid peroxyde
Palmolive clear free dish detergent baking soda scrub
Dawn dish soap is actually toxic
@@reese5051 No.
Third!! Love your channel girl! Keep up the great work ❤️
Thanks for watching Shinelle!
very useful tips.. tx. nice video.
Loving your book Melissa.
Have you got a recipe specifically for engineered wooden floors?
Sending you good wishes from Melbourne, Australia.
thank you so much for this...I am trying to go all natural...love this!!!
Yay! It's worth it :)
GREAT video...
As they always are.
Great video!! I love your shirt!!
Very interesting video !
Thank you for this amazing video 😻!!! , from Saudi Arabia 💗 .
Thank you from Canada!
Completely not relevant to the video but you look so elegant in that shirt, Melissa! A very classy lady 💁🏽
I made an all purpose cleaner with water, dish soap, and rubbing alchohal and it works really well. I like making my own cleaning products because I can decide what they smell like by putting essential oils in them that I like. I especially like eucalyptus oil
ahhh! i love that golden pineapple on your counter!
The shower & tile cleaner in your book! I hadn't realized my shower could be shiny-thought it was a mat finish or something. I'm writing up a shopping list to try out others now. ☺
P. S. Thank you very much for the book and your videos!
..and thank you for watching them!!
Clean My Space Love the degreaser. Mixed some up to clean my stove top and knobs. A 20 yr old + stove top is looking shiny again. This stuff cleans better than an industrial strength degreaser I've tried in the past. Plus the scent is amazing!
I love your video it's really helpful
Omg love your blouse!
hello.
i love your videos. can you please share the cleaning tips with kids around in house
Homemade recipes is amazing and something I need especially with young kids and a baby. Can you suggest a carpet cleaner?!
i've never tried diy products but i would really wanna try!
Thanks for a great video with awesome tips! One question: Would scrubbing the oven work with a magic eraser instead of steel wool, too? TIA
I ran out of toilet bowl cleaner a few months ago and have just been using Bon Ami and Dr. Bronner's soap. I think I'll try out your recipe soon!!
Also I totally used the tip of putting a microfiber cloth on a swiffer to clean the shower and also walls in your home and whoa amazing and so disgusting considering I didn't think my bedroom walls looked dirty at all!! It was like ripping a Biore strip off your nose! haha
Loved the info you share as well as the recipes :) great job with this video xo
Also love all the overlap in ingredients! I love that about DIY cleaning products, it makes it so simple. :)
I love your blouse!!!
I love this one. I'm always trying to find non dangerous alternatives for all cleaning products, not just for safety and health but also for environmental reasons.
I would like to know a good substitute for laundry soap. I use soap nuts for my laundry, and they work well, but when there is a stain (usually the ones I can't get rid of are tomato sauce and oil/grease stains) it gets difficult to get rid of it. Any ideas? Thank you!
Thank younger this video!! I try to use non chemical cleaners most of the time. My son is asthmatic and some of the scents or smells trigger his asthma.
I don't use many DIY recipes for cleaning. However, for dusting my wooden furniture and doors I always use the following recipe: I add some water in a big enough container and to that I add some fabric softener, then I wet a cleaning cloth with the mixture, wring out the excess water, dust and repeat the process. The wet cloth takes away the dust effectively and the fabric softener makes sure that there aren't any streaks left on the furniture. Recently I also added some Detol in a particularly dirty room that desperately needed to be disinfected.
Your videos are amazing! But I cannot stand the smell of vinegar so I started looking for better smelling, natural, chemical free cleaners and found Thieves cleaner by Young Living!! I use it for everything and it’s a degreaser and cleans just as good as bleach but is so safe that you could drink it and not get sick! I just wanted to tell you about it because I think it’s a wonderful product.i thought you would like to hear about it because it’s so amazing!☺️
My 94yr. old Grandmother to this day still uses vinegar for her fabric softener in her laundry, I do as well. She also kept their door from their outhouse and it's been in her flower bed full of Lilies for many many years.
Thank u so much for sharing 😘Melissa 😘xoxo 💖
Hi Melissa, You have covered many cleaning concerns through your videos and book that i can follow for this situation. Do you have extra tips and advice for clean up recovery from heavy smoke? I left the home for two hours forgetting I had left beans to boil on the stove and came home to a smoke filled home. Your advice is greatly appreciated!
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I love your videos, I have a question I have a glass top stove how do you clean those and remove the scratches ?
Thanks a million Melissa. Canada
my favorit recipe for cleaning my shower (walls), my kitchen and fridge and more is this: in a bottle add some dishwashing soap (I use 1 tablespoon or so), then I fill the bottle half way up with water and add table vinegar (5%). just remember to shake the bottle before using it 😊😊
where I live there is a lot of calcium in the water which leaves a lot of residue. the vinegar takes care of this and the soap cleanes 😊
You could add essential oils to this if you are feeling fancy.
This is awesome.. I have damaged lungs and a lot of the cleaners irritate them..
I would like to disinfectant my facecloths ,as it makes me feel more protected.
Do you have a recipe that you can make to add to white🙃 wash? I love everything that you do and teach.
Beautiful...I just love it all.x,x,x,x thank God I found you and this site.
I am so grateful..xox
Thanks for the tips I got ur book its great
Happy to hear it - thanks very much for your support :)
i have to wait on the book, saving my pennies now. :)
Great ideas! I am working hard to get away from chemicals in the home. Gonna try your toilet cleaner!
Let me know how it goes! Thanks for watching :)
Love the diy receipies super helpfull
Thanks for watching Rosemarie!
agreed. Hydeogen peroxide is a new one for me. Many thanks, will try it out!
my fav is toilet bowl cleaning.. i follow all ur cleaning recipy. tx u from india
I love my all purpose cleaning. I make it with marseille soap. I just grate a little bit from the block of marseille soap and melt it with some hot water. I ad about 4 teaspoons of baking soda. I will put the ingredients in a spray bottle. Then i fill up the rest of the bottle with water and put some lemongrass oil in there and shake it before use.
This isn't a DIY but I love this all purpose cleaner called Odoban they use eucalyptus as their main saler.
great video
Thanks! Love DYI cleaners. So much cheaper and healthier
I had a lot of trouble with my kitchen sink clogging. I tried all natural declogging stuff but it wasn't working. So I tried 1cup of baking soda, I made sure it was all in the drain, then added 1cup of white vinager to the drain and quickly closed it because the fumes from the baking soda and vinager are quite strong. Let it sit for about an hour and rinse with hot water. It work well for my sink.
Hi Melissa! My favourite diy cleaner is: talc powder to remove oil or oily stain of clothes. Leave the stain dry (i.e.: do not soak it in water!) sprinkle with heavy layer of talc powder, let sit for at least an hour of two, brush away and launder as normal. That should do the trick!
Also, getting rid of chewing gum that got stuck to clothes! It sounds insane but freeze - yes! Freeze the garment overnight in the freezer, the chewing gum will freeze too and the next day you can gently scrape it away and launder as normal! The joys of having children 😂😂😂
what is the best thing to use in an acrylic bath tub to clean it ?
where did u get your shirt? so pretty! thanks for the tips!
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You look good with your hair up like that!
I've used the combination baking soda/detergent/vinegar/peroxide for as long as I can remember, almost 30 years now. Any of the combinations will work as a charm for almost anything. While I hate bleach, in Argentina there's a gel bleach that I use more than ever. And for disinfecting surfaces I love Lysoform in liquid version. So my cleaning things are very little and extremely effective!
But not natural and environmentally friendly, I think that was the focus of her recipes.
loving the shirt
I love adding vodka to my DIY cleaners as a disinfectant. It has no scent, dries fast, and freshens fabrics!
Peachy Clean Great suggestion! I will definitely try this!
Thank you! I'd much rather use vodka than nasty smelling vinegar
vodka doesn’t disinfect especially diluted in your solution because its only 40% alcohol
thanks for the tips. your channel is very useful. i live in CANADA as well so do you have a tip on how to keep your winter jackets smell nice. i am a clean and neat freak and hate how my winter jacket smells especially after going to starbucks or tim hortons. i can always wash my clothes but dont know what to do with my winter outwear. please and best of luck for your channel.
It would be very nice to see a video for items like mops or tools for the elderly or disabled, Those of us who cant clean on a regular bases, So we need things to help for some kind of short cut, other then paying someone, lol love your videos
My favorite shower cleaner ( hope this is not toxic )..Ammonia and dawn dish soap , fill the spay bottle up halfway with Ammonia and squeeze in Dawn ( 2 good squeezes ) shake and spay shower , let sit for 20 min if you can and rinse..I did not do research on ammonia so hoping its safe love the diy cleaner
I have a solution of apple cider vinegar, water and dish soap that I use as all purpose cleaner to clean my toilet, sink, tiles and glass splash back etc. i love it!
Saving these :). Also, any suggestions on how to clean the area between the windows on your oven door?
I saw a video on this once, you literally have to unscrew the door and the inside part of the door to get inside the glass. I just got a used stove and it's got drips in between the glass... it's driving me crazy, but I'm scared to take it apart LOL
Thank you so much for these "recipes". I am really trying to use healthier options so will get around to making these!
Question though- does it matter for which mixtures of its stored in a plastic or a glass spray bottle? Some people say not to use essential oils in plastic bottles? That holds me back bc I haven't been able to find glass spray bottles in my local stores.
Try to make small portion, because these diy is made from natural product which has less shelf life. So try to make smaller portion for which can be used once.