We are getting ready to start a new theme and challenge here on our site and we encourage you to join us!
We will be starting this challenge just after the first official day of Spring starts (next Thursday, March 21st is our starting date!) so we wanted to give you around a week to gather the items needed before we dive in and start making our own cleaning products and then start getting our homes cleaned out little by little this Spring!
We make our own homemade cleaning products using natural ingredients! Not only is it much, much healthier, but it is also a lot cheaper (even with using coupons on pre-made cleaners).
I have been doing this for years and I make anti-bacterial cleaners too with special ingredients listed in our previous post HERE.
We are going to be making 23 cleaning products and your shopping list is below. It will cost around $12 for the ingredients and most all of the ingredients will make several batches for that $12 too!
Here’s what we will be making:
- Floor cleaners for different floor types
- Anti-bacterial Cleaning Wipes
- Mold and Mildew Remover
- Vacuum Cleaner Deodorizer
- Fruit and Veggie Wash
- Glass/Window Cleaner
- Antibacterial Cleaner
- Bathroom Scrub/Homemade Soft Scrub
- Air Deodorizer
- Stain Remover
- Kitchen/Food Area disinfectant
- Drain Cleaners
- Toilet Cleaners
- Carpet/Car deodorizer
- Garbage Disposer Cleaner
- Handsoap
- Sensitive/Baby Laundry detergent
- Regular Laundry detergent
- Dishwasher Soap
- Dish Soap
- All-Purpose Cleaner
- Fabric Softener (4 Easy Recipes)
- Dishwasher/Washing Machine Cleaner
- Homemade Jet Dry
- Heavy Duty Natural Cleaner
- Magic Eraser and Gentle Wall Wash
Now please note, there are only 9 ingredients plus essential oils (which really are essential for these cleaners and worth every penny in our cheap essential oils post HERE) to make all of the above! We hope your home, family and health will be much improved and appreciate these products!
Also, after the home cleaning, we will be sharing our homemade personal care and also many medicine replacements in the future. It is too much to share here. Let’s get cleaning out of the way first!
Here’s your shopping list that you can just print off and grab quickly at Walmart or other local stores!
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- -Kirks Castile bar soap 3-pk (found in the hand soap section) WM=$3.28 ($1.09 Each)
- -Kirks Castile liquid soap 8oz. (found in the hand soap section) WM =$2.83
- -Pure Ivory Bar Soap (found in the bar soaps section of Walmart)(for baby and sensitive skin detergent) 10-pk for $3.97 or 3 bars for $1.24 making it as low as .38 each bar
- - Zote Large 14.1 oz (top shelf next to laundry detergents) WM=.97, Kroger = .99
- -Zote Soap Flakes 17.6oz. WM=$2.64
- - Fels Naptha 5.5oz. (found on laundry aisle, but near specialty laundry products) WM=.97, Kroger=$1.69
- - 76 oz. WM= $3.97
- - 55 oz. WM= $3.97
- -Morton Ice Cream Salt and then blended to make it a little finer 4 lbs. in grocery section/spices aisle WM=$1.88
- -Morton Coarse Kosher Salt 48 oz. (3 lbs.) WM=$1.88, Kroger =$1.89
- -Kroger Brand Coarse Kosher Salt 48oz. (3 lbs.) Kroger= $2.49
- -Great Value (Walmart brand) .15 each
- -Kool-Aid brand WM=.25, Kroger =.25
- -Great Value (Walmart brand) 1-gallon= $2.48, 64oz. = $1.92, 32oz.=$1.22, 16 oz.=.82
- -Heinz Gallon WM=$3.28
- -Heinz Cleaning Grade (6% acidity vs. 5% acidity) Kroger= $3.79
- -Kroger Brand 1-gallon=$2.49, 64oz. = $1.49
- -Kroger Brand Cleaning Grade (6% acidity vs. 5% acidity) 64 oz. = $2.49
- -Sam's Club or Costco Brands $3.98 for 2 1-gallons (2 gallons total) = $3.98 ($1.99 each)
- -16oz. WM=.52, Kroger=.57
- -32oz. WM=.88, Kroger = $1.00
- -Great Value (Walmart brand) 1lb. box =.54
- -Kroger Brand 1ib. box = .99
- -Arm and Hammer ½lb. box WM=.58, 1lb. box WM= .82, Kroger=.83, 2 lb. box WM= $1.46, Kroger = $1.89, 4lb. box WM=$2.24, Kroger = $3.59, 12lb. bag (192 oz) WM= $7.57, 13.5 lb bag Sam's Club = $6.59
- -Hospitality Brand sold at Walmart 4 lbs. box (64oz.) = $1.98
- Don't forget the Essential Oils - this is the heart of the cleaners. https://thethriftycouple.com/2013/03/15/hot-deal-on-essential-oils-to-use-in-our-homemade-natural-cleaning-products/
- Pumice Stone $1.88 (cleaning section at Walmart)
- Paper Towels (Walmart brand BIG roll with 140 sheets =.98 - this is not for cleaning, we recommend re-useable rags, but to make cleaning wipes)
- Microfibre rags or old t-shirts (the dollar store is a good place for this)
- Spray Bottles (you can recycle some from your home as long as they did not contain chemical products or harsh ingredients, otherwise, get new ones from Walmart for .98)
- Old Toothbrushes - instead of throwing them away, keep a pile for cleaning purposes
You can also use this list at any other store and as your price point to beat. Many of these items may be found in the dollar store.
Please note, all of the prices listed are based on our local Walmart's prices.
Finally, we also HIGHLY recommend that you take this week to not only gather these items around your home or buy the items you don’t yet have as well as print off and create your Home Management Binder downloads put together this notebook as you are probably going to want to store these recipes in your home binder. See all of the information on this in our previous post HERE about Put Together Your Home Binder with Free Downloads.
Enjoy and get your items together over the next week and look for
the start of this fun and healthful challenge in the Spring!!
Allison
So are you going to post later how to make each cleaner?
Cassie
Yes, of course 🙂 Part of the challenges will be to make these easy and safe cleaners. Then we will start cleaning our homes with them!
Heidi S
Looking forward to the dish soap recipe! 🙂
theresa
Is there a link on how to make these cleaners? I don’tsee the recipes and would like to make a couple
Raggy
Need recipes for making the above list on cleaners PLEASE
susan
dishsoap recipe? I want lol. btw I LOVE your site. I am going to start a binder as well. thank you soo much.
Nancy Thatcher
I read a thing that washing soda and baking soda are NOT the same thing. Washing soda should never be used as a food additive as it can be caustic to skin. One is sodium bicarbonate and the other is sodium carbonate. Please to not exchange one for the other..
Baking soda has a pH of 8 (7 is neutral) and is best known for its use as a leavening agent in cooking. It also can be used as a mild scouring agent, an antacid and an emergency kitchen fire extinguisher.
Washing Soda
Washing soda is a caustic substance with a pH of 11. Because of this, you should wear gloves when handling it directly. Washing soda is used as a laundry additive and cleanser but never in food. Here is the link to tell you about this.
Read more: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5594283_difference-baking-soda-washing-soda.html#ixzz2yeAAxhAw
Yad
Nancy,
Thanks for that, always good to know how to use all these ingredients.
Who knows what I would have done.
kbangoy
was wondering were is the hand soap, dish soap and Air Deodorizer recipes? Also
does any one have foaming soap recipes? Last question I have dogs that do there you know what on the side of our yard that has cement. I have tried everything for the smell!!!!! I clean and wash it daily help!!!!
Donna
Id like to know that stuff too if anyone has any good recipes?
I know on amazon kindle there is a how to make your own soap book for free, but I haven’t had a chance to read it yet.
I do have a recipe for carpet fresh though, its just baking soda & an essential oil. I eye it, but if I had to guess Id say I use a cup of baking soda and probably about 15 drops of peppermint oil in a tupperware container & shake vigorously. And then vacuum up after maybe 15/30 minutes 🙂 Peppermint is a good clean scent and it seems to rid odors better than others.
Also something I haven’t read anywhere that is ***VERY IMPORTANT*** most essential oils are toxic to pets in the concentrated form! So please be careful of where you are storing them and that if you are using them around your fur kids I always do a clean water rinse after just to be sure, as they can easily be absorbed into the bloodstream by their footpads. If they should get into it IMMEDIATELY call the pet poison control center at (800)213-6680, there is a small $40 fee, but it beats a Huge vet bill of ICU later down the line. Time is of the essence when it comes to poison and what you do at home could save your baby’s life
Anna
Try washing it down with powdered lime from your garden store.
elleninpa
Do you think I can substitute Dr. Bronner’s liquid castile soap for the castile bars? I have a lot of the liquid in three scents. What do you suppose the proportion would be?