Dont you just hate home made cleaning stuff?

Question

I dont know if its got a name but stuff like using vinegar and water to clean windows and baking soda to clean kettles. I find it really annoying that people would do this sort of thing lol! Whats wrong with a quick spray of Mr Muscle and a cloth, rather than dogs urine applied with a toothbrush?

Answer 1

Mr Muscle and household products have way too much chemicals. Not good for your lungs and can also cause cancer

Answer 2

Not at all!
Actually chemicals are the dogs urine - ish - lol.
A lot of cleaners are toxic to you. Note the "use in a well vented area" or "make sure you rinse it all off" or "keep out of reach of children" or "dispose of properly" or "don't pour down the drain" or "don't mix with that or this it will create deadly fumes", don't use on this or that. Those are for real. Read the labels on your cleaners and see how appealing it sounds to use. Some of the cleaners you use - read the labels and you'll find some are aleady the green cleaning stuff you detest but at a rediculously high price. Make it yourself in that case.
It's called cleaning "green". I don't use a lot of the stuff but use Dawn dish soap or plain old soap to wash things down. I don't use vinegar because it's too acidic for my old house and would do more damage than good. Vinegar and baking soda are actually very good disinfectants and kills odor.
The vinegar and water beat any chemical for cleaning windows - and don't forget the newpaper lol. And some of the window cleaners you buy are the same as homemade recipes - for real lol. Some just mix a few things up themselves instead of buying it for ten times the price.
Want a great drain declogger? Pour 1/2 cup of baking soda in your drain then follow with a cup of vinegar and stand back. Then wash it all down with hot or boiling water. Once a week is a charm on drains. Don't do this if you've used Draino or something in the last week (there's those warnings again).
And green cleaning is cheaper. A bottle of vinegar for 99 cents as opposed to a $6 of toxic chemicals.
As the saying goes, don't knock it 'till you've tried it.

Answer 3

Dear Deano, People have been cleaning things longer than you have eventhought of being alive. They have not always had Mr. Muscle or Mr.Clean or The Ty-D-Bol man and they got along just fine with their vinegar and baking soda. If you want to spendore money and pad the pockets of the advertisers go right ahead. I'll stick with the less toxic homemade stuff, thank ya' very much :)

Answer 4

Well, I don't clean with dog pee, otherwise I might be a little irritated too.

But I do try to use as many natural solutions as possible. I have yet to find an affordable and effective solution to everything but when I do, I swap it out to replace commercial products.

Usually commercial cleaning products are an overdo...they are needed as a result of laziness. I consider these things as natural remedies too: Elbow grease, allowing time for the product to work, adding heat or steam, letting something soak, cleaning up bigger messes right away, and keeping up with your avg home maintenance like vaccuuming and dusting.

When a cleaner promises to do miracles with no scrubbing lickety bang...you can assume that there are unnecessary chemicals involved and frankly, even though I know most of us are strapped for time, I'm just not going to be that lazy. We all have choices to make how we spend our time, and there are eco-friendly ways to clean that are just as easy and efficient as any Swiffer product out there. Plus spending a little time taking care of your home on a regular basis is easier than crisis intervention when the mess is really bad.

I try to embrace a kindness to the planet, but I am by no means a purist nor am I perfect. Sometimes you can make a complicated mess using natural materials when a few drops of bleach are all that is needed. That is when I reach for bleach. If you use these kind of chemicals, you can be a lot more responsible than most users by using appropriate amounts of them, the smallest amount needed. But just because I make a bleach spray to use on my tile grout, does not mean I add a cup of bleach to every load of white laundry. And there are "straight" versatile products like bleach, a relatively simple chemical, and then there are potions straight from the belly of hell like toilet cleaner, with so many chemicals in them that you can't even use them without a fan running. Some would argue this point and that is fine.

I think it is delightful that you can buy a gallon of vinegar for two dollars and replace literally hundreds of different products with it....everything from drain cleaner to air freshener to fabric softener. I really love that. It means that I can mix it different ways to solve a multitude of problems, and I don't have to worry about it making me or my cat, or the planet sick. AND it IS only two bucks.

Answer 5

Bet if I told ya that those lovely chems in your cleaners, hygiene products & food causes prostate problems & sexual dysfunction...ya might think again???

Just a smidge of the ol' Come On Sense...those chemicals mix with body chemicals, but nobody wants to tell what chemical "re-action" is caused....the things that make you go "hmmm!!!" It makes your AMA & it's affiliates smile all the way to the bank & Mediteranean vacations, Sweetness!!!

Ever read a label from your mold & mildew bathroom cleaner??? It states "Do not use in confined, unventilated areas"...DAH!!! If your bathroom wasn't confined & was well-ventilated, you wouldn't have mold & mildew to begin with!!!...this is the sense of your "consumer protection" wonders in the FDA...go figure!!!

Really want some brain food??? Pick a chem on any label of any cleaner you bought off the store shelf...go to OSHAs web site & look up what they require to handle that chemical in the work place...there are NO regulations placed on chemicals used for homes as of yet!!! And you know what else??? You pay about $3.70 for a 24 oz. bottle of Lysol Cleaner, vinegar & water with a touch of lemon juice does the same thing for about $.35...start saving for your own mega-vacation, yes???

Answer 6

No, as a matter of fact I love homemade cleaners I live by them have used them for years never had any problems with homemade cleaners they are the best and least expensive cleaners around, commercialized cleaners don't always work and are unhealthy to use and with homemade cleaners you don't have to have many cleaners sitting under your sink cluttering up all that needed space Homemade cleaners work very well if you use them correctly and make them up the correct way, I clean homes have tried and tested all these homemade cleaners so I can vouch for them being very good have always had great success with these natural cleaners Good Luck !

Answer 7

I clean all my roasting and broiler pans with oven cleaner. I buy Windex. I never use vinegar except on a salad. Baking soda is for making cookies. I use bleach to disinfect, and ammonia to degrease. Usually straight from the bottle. I buy Noxon for polishing brass, and Ivory liquid for hand washed dishes and Electrosol and Jetdri for the dishwasher. Tide, Bluing, bleach and Bounce softener sheets for laundry. I use plenty of paper towels and I don't care either. I buy white washcloths in those 10 packs to clean the bathrooms and floors and throw them away when they are stained.

Answer 8

I am afraid I have to agree!!! I cannot stand my home smelling like a chip shop. and yet I am allergic to chemical cleansers, so the solution is a steam cleaner. It cleans my house without harmful chemicals, kills germs and house dust mites, and sterilises my toilets, work surfaces, without bleach, and best of all without VINEGAR, which stinks worse than dog pi$$

Answer 9

You must own stock in Procter & Gamble.

Answer 10

that stuff works better than those chemicals...and they are environmentally safer, not to mention cheaper!!! don't knock til you try it!!