How to Make Natural Cleaning Products: 10 Homemade Recipes
Make 10 natural cleaning products at home: an all-purpose castile spray, glass spray, scouring cream, oven paste and toilet soak, with safe surfaces.
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A little know-how. More room for life.
Products and methods
Cleaning products and methods: what works, what to skip
Green cleaning here means using less: fewer products, less hot water, and nothing stronger than the job needs. These guides check popular home remedies against what they actually do, including where a homemade or “natural” option doesn’t clean, or damages the surface. “Natural” isn’t automatically safer or kinder to a surface, so read each guide’s cautions before you try a recipe.
6 guides · Edited by Huy Hoang · Updated
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Where to start.
- How to Make Natural Cleaning Products: 10 Homemade RecipesTen homemade recipes, and the surfaces each one suits.
- Hot or Cold Water: Which Actually Cleans Better?When hot water helps, and when cold is enough.
- Toothpaste Cleaning Hacks: Which Work and Which DamagePopular toothpaste hacks: which work and which damage.
Products and recipes
Homemade cleaners and household hacks, with where each one belongs.
Toothpaste Cleaning Hacks: Which Work and Which Damage
Toothpaste works on sneaker soles but can scratch silver, phone screens, chrome and matt paint. 12 popular toothpaste hacks rated, with what to use instead.
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More room for life.What Is Sugar Soap and How Do You Use It?
Sugar soap is an alkaline wall cleaner. Mix ½ cup in 5 litres of warm water, wash from the bottom up, rinse, and keep it off aluminium and brass.
Read the guideWater, energy and reuse
Using less hot water, and finding a second use for what you already have.
Hot or Cold Water: Which Actually Cleans Better?
Choose the right water temperature for laundry, dishes, bathrooms and floors, with care-label checks, disinfectant guidance and practical energy-saving advice.
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Clever Household Uses for Old Newspaper
Which newspaper tricks genuinely work around the house — and which ones, including the one everyone repeats about windows, mostly do not.
Read the guidePests
Natural pest control for Australian homes.
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