A Pseudo Domesticated Queen: 2 Homemade Cleaners YOU Can Do

I was thinking about how it's hard to reconcile the need to be frugal and the effectiveness of the chemistry products that are so enticing (especially after my lovely experience with ammonia in chemistry freshman year of college). That AND there's no way I can clean anything with bleach and NOT get it all over my clothes. So, through the interest of keeping my sanity, I decided to try mixing a few concoctions that will fight the tough dirt and ick of the world!

The first one is a homemade antifreeze spray:

That sounds sketch, but let me explain why this was so important to make this. On Sunday it was around 10 degrees outside and the night before it was 33 degrees. JUST the temperature before water can be ice, meaning it rained liquid for a solid hour. THEN it froze. A half centimeter of ice. SO much ice, I didn't have a scraper, NOTHING. But when it came down to it, a recipe I picked up worked magic and dissolved the ice (after pouring a whole tub of salt over my car to no avail). This is a helpful recipe to dissolve ice and scrape it away. Move on with your life.

What you'll need:
1 small spray bottle
3 cups of window washing liquid (I bought a refill for windex, generic, and instead of a spray bottle full)
2 full bottles (12 fl oz each) of Isopropyl Alcohol
4 T Iodized salt
1 Gallon jug (leftover milk perhaps?)
Water

What you'll do is start by filling up the jug 2/3 of the way with HOT spout water. That will help everything dissolve faster. Pour in the 3 cups of window washing cleaner, the two bottles of alcohol, and the salt until full. It should look like this: 

In the gallon                                                                                  Pour in the bottle

Save the gallon and refill the bottle when you're done! 

THE SECOND!

It's the moment you've been waiting for, deeper cleaning power than bleach, with the toxins of a mere cooking ingredient, stronger than a moving train. It's VINEGAR!!

What you'll need:

1 spray bottle

1 bottle of vinegar (32 oz)

Water.

Directions: pour the vinegar in the gallon, fill the rest up with hot water, pour into the spray bottle.

 DONE

The effect of this is so safe, that you can even have it around your kids. Plus because of its acidity, you can bet it will kill those pesky germs and fight grease! Check out these before and after pictures:

This stove has been ratchet since the day we moved in, not even fixed by bleach!

Before:

AFTER!:

A total change! Vinegar is also able to cut through stains, grime on dishes, leather stains, glass, toilets, surfaces, marble and SO MUCH MORE. Plus, it's cheap, so holler for a dollar honey boo boo!

This has been another episode of my random domesticated spree, hope you gleaned valuable information from it! Until next time! Hugs, Kauffee