The great thing about using essential oils for cleaning is they can be combined with other items you may already have around the house, such as vinegar, baking soda, etc.
Many essential oils are great for cleaning your every day household items. They are all natural and can be a great choice over store bought cleaners. And they are pennies to make!
Essential Oils Recommended for Cleaning:
1. Scrubbing/Disinfecting Oils: Lemon, melaleuca (tea tree oil), lime, cinnamon, thyme, bergamot, wild orange and peppermint. Also blends called On Guard and Purify.
2. Deodorizing/Freshening Oils: Lemon, peppermint, clary sage, melaleuca, lavender, geranium, basil, and eucalyptus. Also Purify blend.
Kitchen Cleaning Tips:
1. All Purpose Spray: To make a cleaning spray, mix 5-8 drops of a scrubbing oil, listed above, and blend with 1oz. of water in a spray bottle. Shake, spray on counters, cutting boards, refrigerator, garbage, microwave, and other surfaces.
2. Counter Cleaning: Add 1-2 drops of lemon, On Guard blend, or another scrubbing oil, listed above, to a damp rag, and wipe down counters, tables and stoves.
3. Dishes: Add a few drops of lemon to dishwater for sparkling dishes. You can also add lemon to your dishwasher as well.
4. Trash Can Deodorizer: Add 3-5 drops of a deodorizing essential oil, listed above, to 1 TB of baking soda and mix well. Sprinkle into the bottle of the trash can!
Bathroom Cleaning Tips:
1. Diffuse On Guard blend or Purify blend into the air to help clean the air. No work involved!
2. Mirror Cleaner: Place 1-2 drops of a scrubbing oil, listed above, with 1 tsp. of white vinegar in a 1 oz. bottle with water. Shake well, and spray on mirrors. Use a dry rag, or even newspapers, to wipe off.
3. Shower Spray: Mix 5 drops of lemon and 5 drops of white fir with 2 oz. water in a small spray bottle. Spray on bathtub or shower.
4. Deodorizing Spray: Place 5-8 droops of a deodorizing essential oil, listed above, in a 1oz. spray bottle, and fill the remainder of the bottle with water.
Shake well, and spray into the air.
3. Drying: Put Purify blend, lemongrass or another favorite oil or blend on a wet rag or dryer balls and toss it in the dryer!
Furniture Tips:
1. Polish: put a few drops of Lemon, Purify blend, or white fir along with fractionated coconut oil on a dust cloth and wipe down wood for a simple furniture polish.
Floors and Carpet:
1. Multi-Purpose Floor Cleaner: Place 1 cup of white vinegar, 1 TB of dish soap or castile soap, 15 drops of a scrubbing essential oil, listed above, into a bucket of water. Mix and use to clean tile, hardwood, linoleum, ceramic, laminate and vinyl. Or you can use On Guard blend cleaning concentrate – super easy!
2. Carpet Cleaner/Deodorizer: Mix 1 cup of baking soda and 20-50 drops of melaleuca, lemon, Purify blend or another favorite oil in a glass jar. Close and shake the jar and let it stand overnight. Sprinkle lightly over carpets, let sit for 15 minutes and then vacuum.
Laundry Tips:
1. Washing: Many people make their own, I honestly haven't dug into that.
Two solutions I use, On Guard Blend Laundry Detergent or you can add a few drops of On Guard blend or Purify blend into the wash water.
2. Gum/Grease: Use lemon or to help get gum or grease off clothes.
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