Keeping your bathroom clean doesn’t have to cost the Earth – in more ways than one – and with these budget busting tips for cleaning your bathroom using natural products, you can help save money, and the planet.
Avoid store bought cleaning solutions
While it might seem convenient to simply grab a bottle of your favorite chemical cleaner from the store, making your own, natural cleaning solution is super easy and a whole lot cheaper, not to mention better for the environment. Once you’ve got the ingredients (you may already have them in your home), you can make up a large supply of the solution so that it’ll last you just as long (if not longer) than your usual store-bought product.
For your own easy, efficient, cheap, versatile and natural cleaning solution, simply get together the following ingredients along with an empty spray bottle or two:
- White vinegar (or apple cider vinegar)
- Baking soda
- Essential oils or fresh lemon/lime/orange juice
- Water
For tubs and tiles:
Combine 1 and a half cups of baking soda with half a cup of warm water and 2 tablespoons of vinegar for a fantastically effective tub and tile/grouting cleaner. If you prefer not to use a plastic spray bottle, you can add the ingredients to a jar and shake it well each time before dipping your cloth in it, or pouring it onto the affected areas. You can also add lemon juice to make it smell fresher.
For toilet bowls:
Pour a cup of baking soda and a cup of vinegar into the toilet bowl, leave it for at least a few hours before flushing. For more stubborn stains, you may need to scrub a little before flushing, but only after the mixture has been left to work for some time.
For mirrors and shower stalls:
Vinegar is amazing for cleaning glass, and will effectively clean mirrors and shower stalls when diluted with water and sprayed on, before being wiped off.
For faucets:
Take a lemon, cut it in half and simply wipe it around your faucets to help get them sparkling clean. Vinegar and baking soda combined can also be used to help fizz away stubborn stains and leave your entire bathroom looking and smelling hygienically clean.
Dishwash soap everywhere!
If budgetary constraints are concerning you more than most other issues when it comes to cleaning your bathroom, why not just use the dish soap that you already have? Dish soap is great for cleaning a multitude of different uses and gets many areas of the home, including the bathroom, spotlessly clean and streak free.
Get the professionals to clean your bathroom:
While you might not think that it can be cost-effective to hire someone to clean your bathroom for you, by the time you’ve bought the products and invested the time to clean it, a pro could have come in and got the job expertly done for you, instead. With their cleaning tips and vast experience, they’ll deep clean it so that it’ll remain clean for longer, and doing it yourself, it’s always tempting to cut corners and skip bits!
Bathroom cleaning doesn’t have to be a chore, neither does it have to be expensive and time consuming. With the above advice, your bathroom can get clean, and stay clean.
