Natural Cleaning: with Essential Oils

Create a sustainable, non-toxic home with these simple cleaning recipes. Using essential oils to clean is effective and better for your home.

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We like a clean house and we can be a bit over the top when it comes to cleaning and organizing. We can’t go to bed with dishes in the sink and we won’t leave our house without the bed made, even when we am going to be gone all day long. Ok, so we have to admit that we enjoy cleaning.

We try to be more relaxed about it, but we just can’t. If our house isn’t put together, we feel stressed. We know it doesn’t matter and the next time we see it, we'll be unmaking it to go to sleep, but we still have to make it.

We absolutely can’t stand streaks on our mirrors and we like our carpet to have vacuum lines. We am telling you we am over the top and we know it.

A few years ago, we was overhauling the house and getting rid of toxic products in our home. It was actually during our spring cleaning routine, and we started making homemade products with our oils, and when we came to our precious cleaning supplies, we was skeptical.

Would we really be able to make products that work like Windex? Or what about that Lysol smell after our floors are mopped? What about the toilet bowl? Yup, we like cleaning toilets too!

We use a couple of essential oils and a few products to clean our entire house, and it still sparkles. We researched recipes and started trying different things. Let me tell you, we was impressed! We still get that clean, fresh look and scent without the chemicals.

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MY FAVORITE NATURAL CLEANING PRODUCTS

1. VINEGAR- Vinegar is great for cleaning because of its high acidity level. It can remove sticky buildup, dissolve soap scum, get rid of rings left by hard water, and cut grease. Vinegar can also kill Salmonella and E.coli, two bacteria you’ll want to kill.
2. BAKING SODA- Baking soda is great for absorbing odor and removing stains, making it a go-to for your natural cleaning. Baking Soda is a mild alkali and can cause dirt and grease to dissolve easily in water for effective removal.
3. CASTILE SOAP- Castile soap is gentle, safe and leaves surfaces squeaky clean. Castile soap is highly concentrated, making it cost-effective because you only need a little bit each time you clean, and each bottle will last you a long time.

If you’re looking for a quick way to find the ingredients and tools we use, we've linked them all together on our Walmart shop page for convenience.

MY FAVORITE ESSENTIAL OILS FOR NATURAL CLEANING

• Lemon- Learn more about lemon HERE.
• Wild Orange
• Lime
• Melaleuca

They can be used to cleanse surfaces, purify the air, and leave behind a pleasant aroma that makes your house smell clean and refreshing. We love diffusing citrus oils on cleaning day to get that lemon “LYSOL-Y” smell! These essential oils have powerful cleansing and purifying properties.

We love that they work! We keep it simple. As we am writing this, we am looking around to see if we am missing anything; we can’t believe how little we use when it comes to cleaning. Under our sink, where we keep the cleaning supplies, is pretty boring, but we like it. We like that our kids can help me clean without me having to worry about chemical burns or them ingesting it. We like that the ingredients are healthy and natural.

We am going to share the few recipes we use to clean our entire house, our dish soap recipe, and our favorite DIY foaming hand soap.

ALL-PURPOSE CLEANING SPRAY

You can use it on counters, bathroom vanities, kitchen surfaces, floors, and even mirrors; it doesn’t streak!

Do not use this spray on natural stone. If you have granite or marble countertops, you’ll want to use a homemade granite cleaner for those.

Ingredients:

• 16-ounce glass spray bottle
• 8-ounces vinegar
• 20-25 drops lemon essential oil

Directions:

• Add vinegar and lemon to bottle.
• Top off with water and shake well.

TOILET BOWL CLEANER

Ingredients:

• Spray bottle or Squirt Bottle
• Vinegar
• 15 drops melaleuca
• 10 dropslemon

Directions:

1) Add essential oils and vinegar to spray bottle and top off with water.

2) Spray in the toilet and let the mixture sit for a few minutes.

3) Sprinkle with baking soda and then scrub with a toilet brush.

This takes away that nasty ring, leaves a sparkling bowl, and eliminates odors.

Try these DIY toilet cleaning bombs for hands-off cleaning!

FURNITURE POLISH

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 10 drops wild orange

Directions:

Add ingredients to a mason jar and mix well. Add a dime-size amount to a cloth and rub on furniture to remove smudges and dust. It adds a nice, shiny, protective layer.

DISH SOAP SPRAY

Ingredients:

• 16-ounce spray bottle
• 1/2 cup castile soap
• 10 drops wild orange
• 10 drops lemon
• 10 drops lime

Directions:

Add essential oils and castile soap to spray bottle and top off with water. You can add 1 tablespoon to a sink of warm water or spray one time on each dish to wash individually.

See our new Gel Dish Soap.

FOAMING HAND SOAP

• 8-ounce foaming soap dispenser
• 1/4 cup castile soap
• 10-15 drops essential oil ( our favorites are lavender, wild orange, lemon, and on guard)

Directions:

Add essential oils and castile soap to a foaming soap dispenser and top off with water. This makes an all-natural, gentle, foaming hand soap.

Simple. With these few products, you will cover all your cleaning needs, and we have a lot of cleaning needs. As we said, we am a bit over the top when it comes to cleaning, AND we have 4 little kids, so believe me, these recipes are tried and true. Y’all, that’s it!

If you enjoyed this article, be sure to see our natural cleaning recipes post. It’s packed with some of our favorite at-home cleaning DIYs, all in one place!

Happy cleaning, our friends!