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Rid your home o the chemicas and petroeum-based ingredients ound

in most ceaning products by making your own. ested by the Queen o

Green, these homemade ceaners are versatie, aordabe, and eco-riendy.

Cuts grease

Deodorizes

Disinects

Fights moud & midew

Lits dirt

Sotens water

Whitens

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Borax

Essenti

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tip Labe your fnished products and store them saey away rom chidren and pets.

Recipes with washing soda and borax are ess toxic than commercia products, but rarey

totay benign. Use them with caution or ony or heavy-duty jobs. Washing soda, or sodium

carbonate, is more caustic and has a higher pH than its cousin, baking soda. Borax, or sodium

borate, is a naturay occurring akaine minera sat but aso used as a ow-risk pesticide.

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Essentia ois are optiona; avoid them i you are sensitive to scents. Lemon, ime, graperuit, tea tree,

emongrass, avender, and eucayptus ois have antibacteria, antiunga and/or grease-cutting powers.

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Lqu any apUse cup per ull load

7 l water

cup soap granues

cup borax

cup washing soda

0 drops essentia oi (optiona)

Add l water and soap granues to pot. eat unti diuted.

Pour into pai with 6 l water, borax, and washing soda. Stir

unti dissoved. Add essentia oi. Soap wi ge as it coos.

For hard water, add more washing soda. o whiten whites,

add cup baking soda to oad.

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Bx-fe lquany apUse cup per ull load

7 l hot water

cup baking soda cup iquid castie soap

1 cup coarse sat

Dissove dry ingredients in hot water. Add soap and stir.

Powrd ny apUse 12 tbsp per load

cup soap granues

cup borax

cup washing soda

0 drops essentia oi (optiona)

Combine dry ingredients. Stir in essentia oi.

Tip o soten abrics, pour cup white vinegar into rinse

cyce (no the wash cyce).

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Gla d m caneWipe wih newspaper o avoid sreaks

cup white vinegar

cup water

Pour into spray botte.

Tip Beore switching to this green ceaner, cean up the

waxy residue traditiona brands eave behind with a 5%

rubbing acoho-to water-soution.

an t ceRemoves smudges rom sainless seel appliances

Tbsp oive oi

Tbsp white vinegar

Drip oive oi onto rag. Rub surace to get rid o smudges.Drip white vinegar on the other side o rag. Wipe and et dry.

Ft pohSince wood nishes vary, always do a es pach

cups warm water

Tbsp oive oi

Tbsp white vinegar (or emon juice)

Pour into spray botte. Shake we, spray, rub, and poish

with rag.

surface

cleaners

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-pp cuA non-abrasive or ubs, iles, sinks, ec.

2 cups baking soda

cup iquid castie soap

cup water

Tbsp white vinegar

Combine. Pour into squirt botte and shake beore use.

Rinse we.

-ppe pwdAs eecive in dishwashers as i is on oiles

cup borax

cup washing soda

cup white vinegar

Combine dry ingredients. For toiet: sprinke onto surace,

scrub, and chase with vinegar. For dishwasher: add

dry ingredients to soap dispenser and vinegar to rinse

dispenser.

A-ppo prayFor ubs, iles, couners, microwaves, foors, ec.

gaon hot water

cup white vinegar

cup iquid castie soap

Tbsp borax

0 drops essentia oi (optiona)

Combine a ingredients. Pour into spray botte.

all-purpose

cleaners

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