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[sophiec123]

Can somebody please recommend a products or a few products that I can buy to clean my entire house? Sick of buying a ton of products every shop!

I was speaking to a cashier in Morrisons and she said she is eco mad and she's doesn't use any products to wash clothes and clean her house, only some cheap detergent with no fabric softener to wash clothes and white vinegar for her house. Can't help thinking that my house will stink of vinegar.

Do people actually do this?

Do people do this for other things? Washing hair etc? Really interested

Zoflora for EVERYTHING!! (Except washing up and washing clothes) I do my sides, floor, bathrooms, skirting boards literally everything with the stuff and it smells gorgeous!

I'm Team Vinegar, but I do use lemon or peppermint essential oil with it. I started off using vinegar without and the residents complained.

There are lots of recipes online, but the two easiest are a quick spray - equal quantities of vinegar and water. I do put a little cheap washing up liquid in it, but you don't have to.

For the cooker, sink etc, I heat the vinegar in a pyrex jug and add then add the same amount of washing up liquid.

I buy everything in bulk and refill spray bottles.

Zoflora is not eco-friendly and is a disinfectant so should be used sparingly. I put a few drops in (homemade) sprays for toilets and wipe it (very diluted) around the bin after I've cleaned it, but won't buy any more when I've used it up.

My washing powder is grated soap, borax and soda crystals but I have added some Aldi bio because I've read that modern washing machines can't cope with soap only. White vinegar instead of fabric conditioner. Again, I add a few drops of lemon oil to that.

I spent an afternoon making up bottles for upstairs and downstairs. Most take a couple of minutes to refill.

So, yes, it can be done!

Oh great! Thankyou for commenting guys! So for all round the house you use vinegar with essential oils in and a little dish soap? Do you have any other products for laminate flooring? I have a spray mop so anything that I could put in there?

Do you also buy bleach as well as the other products?

I don't use bleach any more. I do have some hydrogen peroxide that I use to clean up after pet accidents, and I know that you can use that as bleach.

The water/vinegar and (+ a little washing up liquid and lemon oil) is the spray I use all the time. The vinegar/washing up liquid mix is for when something more is needed.

For mirrors and glass, I use a vinegar/water mix with some isopropyl alcohol (you can use a slosh of cheap vodka instead).

I have wooden floorboards, ceramic tiles, vinyl and crapet on the floors around my house. No laminate. I make 5l of floor cleaner in an old vinegar container. Probably 4l water and 1l vinegar. Squirt of cheap washing up liquid and isopropyl.I have some 'Thieves' oil (which is a mix of spicy oils) I add for floors.

If the floors are really dirty, I mop over with hot soapy water with soda crystals added, let it dry and then spray mop over with normal solution.

For the wooden floorboards, I just use hot soapy water, but they're not the 'traffic' areas so they don't get done every day.

In fact, a lot of my cleaning is hot soapy water and a cloth!

Oh great thankyou! I'm honestly sick of having so many products just taking up space in the kitchen cupboard! Do you find you save money by doing it this way?

Definitely money saving. Supermarket cleaning sprays at least £1 a litre, double that for branded and again and again for 'eco friendly' from Waitrose.

Vinegar 60p a litre from Amazon at the moment - and that's going to be diluted!

That's really why I want to do it, every little saving helps so want to try and save where I can. Sorry to be a pain but do you have an amazon link? Xx

www.amazon.co.uk/Golden-Swan-White-Vinegar-Litre/dp/B00TZT6GQE/ref=sr_1_2_s_it?s=grocery&keywords=white+vinegar&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1537343659&sr=1-2

Bear in mind that brown malt vinegar is cheaper still. Also, you can often pick up small bottles of cheap white vinegar from the supermarket. I'm trying to save money, live more simply and use less plastic so I'd rather buy in bulk.

www.amazon.co.uk/Lemon-Finest-Essential-Aromatherapy-100ml/dp/B000NNS27W/ref=sr_1_13_a_it?keywords=essential+oil+lemon+100ml&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1537343886&sr=8-13

Again, look for cheapest per 100ml price - and good reviews. Also the delivery times.

www.amazon.co.uk/Lemon-Finest-Essential-Aromatherapy-100ml/dp/B000NNS27W/ref=sr_1_13_a_it?keywords=essential+oil+lemon+100ml&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1537343886&sr=8-13

I started using oil spray bottles, but they got passed to my daughter, and I bought some from ebay. I like the colour coding (yellow for quick spray, red for heavy duty, green for glass etc. They're like these:

www.amazon.co.uk/Valeting-Household-Cleaning-Chemical-Resistant/dp/B01MRUWZE2/ref=sr_1_7?s=kitchen&keywords=spray+bottles+750ml&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1537344170&sr=1-7

I price check between Amazon and ebay - Amazon often wins on Prime delivery or a 15% off for subscribe and save, I have two sets of sprays - one in futility room and one in bathroom. Bulk supplies are kept in cellar. Took me a whole afternoon to make up sprays and label them (google for free print labels). Now it just takes a couple of minutes to make a refill.

Awesome! Thankyou so much!

I've started!!

Dettol all purpose.

If you are near a Booker & have a card they sell a 5L container of white vinegar very cheaply

Sorry to keep coming back to this post but no need to start another..

I've been using my sprays etc and was just concerned about this being okay as I have a 8 month old baby. I've made..
-vinegar+water+lemon oil+dish soap=all round cleaning
-vinegar+dish soap+oil=bathroom cleaner
-zoflora+water=what I call a "spritz" 🙈

I'm just wondering if it's okay to use as it's quite strong and not really a pleasant smell. Anything else I can add?

Although I wouldn't spritz Zoflora around near a baby, I wouldn't worry about the others so much although I get what you're saying about the vinegar.

I suppose I wouldn't have a baby in a room that I was cleaning if I was using anything other than a weak vinegar spray. The spray I use to clean the shower (vinegar and dish soap) can be overpowering, even with essential oils added. However, I quickly spray it on and leave it. By the time I go back to wash it off, it's fine.

bio washing powder.
seriously!
I use it (tiny bit in warm water) to clean the whole house.