Hi guys, welcome back to my channel.
In today's video, I'm going to be testing out some DIY completely natural home made
cleaning products.
Some of you will know I make lots of cleaning videos here on YouTube and I've been trying
the be more mindful of the products that I clean with by buying nontoxic or plant based
cleaning products.
But today, I want to test out completely natural stuff that you can make at home and see if
it even works.
I'm a mom to three boys and I don't love the idea of filling my house with chemicals so
if these natural recipes for cleaning products are easy enough to make and they work, I would
definitely consider switching out some of my products.
So let's see how we get on.
And if you like this kind of thing, definitely give it a thumbs up and if you're new to my
channel, I would love for you to consider subscribing and yeah, let's see.
So first off, I thought I'd start with a really easy recipe.
This is one for natural glass or mirror cleaner and all you're going to need is water and
distilled white vinegar.
So I'm just adding two cups of water into an old sprat bottle that I've hung onto and
I'm going to add a quarter cup of distilled white vinegar.
I bought this huge jar for just a pound and you will see a theme throughout this video
that distilled white vinegar is in a lot of these recipes because it is such a good effective
natural cleaner.
I didn't realize, but because it's so acidic, it breaks down build up and dirt and obviously
it is natural.
So I'm using this, I'm testing it out on my windows which are absolutely disgusting at
the moment.
The boys have had water play out there, there's fingers all over the place, so I'm going to
wash one of my window panes with the vinegar and water mix.
I must admit, it did smell.
That's why I was pulling that face.
So when you use it, you can really smell the vinegar, but as soon as it evaporates, you
can't smell it anymore.
And then I'm going to wash another window pane with just a traditional window cleaning
product.
I basically wanted to see which one out of these two products worked the best, the natural
recipe that I just made or the traditional product with chemicals in it.
And to be honest, once I've washed my two equally dirty window panes, you couldn't really
tell which product had cleaned which.
Neither one really had smears.
They were very much like for like.
So this one was a real win for me and this is an extremely cheap product to make.
Next up I wanted to test out a completely natural toilet bowl cleaner because toilet
cleaners can have so many harmful chemicals in them.
So for this recipe, you just have to combine some baking soda, vinegar, and an essential
oil and I'm using the scent of pine.
It honestly smelt amazing and essential oils seem to be another theme throughout these
natural product recipes.
They make the products smell so very good and they really do go a long way.
So for this, I'm combining half a cup of baking soda and half a cup of vinegar and it had
this really cool reaction.
I felt like a scientist making this one.
And then you just add in about 10 to 15 drops of the essential oils and it smelt so very
good.
I kept saying "Oh, it smells so good."
But then to apply this, all you have to do is pour it into your toilet bowl and if this
is a natural product that you make quite often, you can buy a [squeezy 00:03:12] bottle specifically
to use these homemade recipes but obviously this is the first time I'm testing it out
so I'm just pouring it in with this jug and then I also scooped out a bit of the paste
and put that into the bowl as well.
The vinegar and baking soda in this product are both deodorizers and the vinegar is also
a disinfectant so I let that sit for a minute while I wiped down the rest of the toilet
and then I used my toilet brush to scrub the bowl.
And this did work really well.
The bowl looked really clean and as I said, it smelt so good.
The only downside to this product was it was more of a fath to obviously make and then
use and that only covered one of my toilets so I think if I could find a way to make it
in bulk and save it in a jar and then use it as I needed it, that would be a lot better.
Next up, I'm going to be testing out this completely natural multipurpose surface spray.
So for this one, all you need to do is combine a quarter cup of vinegar, then a tablespoon
of baking soda, and a liter of warm water in a bowl and those three ingredients seem
to be the bases of any good natural cleaning products.
So I'm going to mix that together and then I'm going to take the rind off of this lemon
and put it into this spray bottle that I will be using for this product.
This will add scent to the product but it also looks really pretty and I'm also going
to add in a few sprigs of rosemary, again, because it looks really cool, but it will
also add a scent to the product.
And then I'm going to take half of that lemon and squeeze it into the mixture.
This has loads of natural cleaning properties in it and again, it will smell nice.
You can also use essential oils in this kind of surface spray but I just ended up using
half of the lemon.
So then you're just going to add your mixture to your spray bottle.
I didn't have a funnel, so I just kind of had to get it in there.
And that is it.
How beautiful does this look?
And over time, it gets a little bit more yellow.
And then I'm just going to test it out on my surface and I was blown away with this
product.
There were no smears.
You couldn't really smell the vinegar.
I guess the lemon counteracted it.
And this is a product I could really see myself using every day.
I think it look so cool.
I could imagine you using prink grapefruit or different types of things.
And it worked so well, I can't say enough how impressed I was with how our countertops
looked after using this.
I also tried to make a completely natural laundry detergent and I was really excited
about this one because I do so much laundry in this house and I thought this would be
a really cost effective way to do the laundry and also nice to know that it's all natural
products on the clothes that your children are wearing.
So for this one, you pretty much need soda crystals and natural olive oil soap, and also
some essential oils.
I bought this organic soap from Holland & Barrett, grated it down, and it made so many little
soap flakes.
That was just from one little bar.
And then you take your soda crystals, I used four cups of soda crystals and then one cup
of the soap gratings that I just showed you, and then I used about 20 drops of a lavender
essential oils that I just showed you.
And again, this made it smell really really nice.
So all you have to do is just mix all of those things together in a bowl, give it a good
mix, and then I also poured it into a jar that I had which I thought looked really cool
so I could just have that in the laundry room.
And then you only need one to two tablespoons of this for a whole load of clothes.
I also added a little label because I thought it looked really really sweet and I thought
it would look great in our utility room.
So I was really excited about it, but I also wanted to give it a really difficult test,
so I got two white t-shirts and I just smeared soil over both of them and also some chocolate
as well.
So I was really putting it to the test here.
I'm rubbing a Penguin bar onto both of the t-shirts and then I also added some water
to make it really muddy.
The kids have come home from school and their clothes are pretty disgusting.
So I washed the first t-shirt with two tablespoons of my eco-detergent and then when I took it
out, it had not worked.
I was so gutted.
I think it might be because I didn't use a borax in this natural cleaner.
So many websites said to use borax, but I didn't want to risk it because I've also heard
that that can be an irritant to skin and my boys are really sensitive.
So that might be why.
But then, I tried to wash the other t-shirt the normal way I would wash it with normal
detergent and a stain remover and it all came straight out, completely white.
So that did really work, the more chemical product, unfortunately.
Then I thought, you know what?
I'm going to try the one that I initially did with eco detergent again.
I'm goin to try it with a little bit of stain remover.
Didn't really make a stain remover as well.
So I put all of that into the washing machine, really hopeful that it would work and unfortunately
after another cycle, it still didn't come out.
So let me know if any of you guys make natural laundry detergent because I'm desperate for
this to work but it might be the borax thing, I'm not sure.
Next up, I also wanted to test out an upholstery refreshing spray.
This is a trend and I myself love so many brands that do this, so I thought I would
try out a natural one.
So you'll need a quarter cup of baking soda, about 10 to 20 drops of essential oils, and
I'm using lavender, and then a cup and a half of water.
Mix that all together, put it into a spray bottle, and then you can just spray this onto
your upholstery and as I mentioned, baking soda is a deodorizer.
That is the first thing I put on the kids' beds if they ever wet the bed because it takes
odors away so very well.
So I'm just going to spray this over my couch and the essential oils, you can't believe
how much smell comes from just 10 drops of essential oils.
So yes, this one did work.
I really really liked the scent of it and I will definitely be using this.
I also wanted to mention a product I have talked about before on this channel, but the
other day, Jackson did this with his finger paint.
He just put it all over the wall and then I ran over with a wipe and I tried to wipe
it off and nothing happened.
I started to freak out.
I ended up using Cif on the wall and all kinds of different things and the only thing that
took this paint off was my magic white eraser.
You can get two of these for a pound in pound land and it takes so many marks and stains
off.
I would totally recommend getting one and it's natural.
So that is it for my testing.
I really enjoyed making this video.
Some of the recipes I could definitely see myself using in the future, especially everything
that was in a spray bottle pretty much.
I could see myself making it ahead of time and then using it.
I'm already using this around my surfaces.
It makes me feel really good.
Almost the same feeling as when you make a home cooked meal and you give it to your kids.
It's that kind of...
I don't know.
You feel like you've made it and you know it's good for them and you know it's not going
to harm anyone and so yeah.
I love this, also looks amazing.
A couple of them didn't work out as well as I had hoped they would but overall, the completely
natural cleaning products did really well.
So I hope you enjoyed this video.
Please put any of your tips or natural recipes in the description down below because I would
love to know what works for you in your home and thank you so much for watching and I'll
see you in my next one.
Bye, guys.