Household Cleaner Recipes

"After months of preschoolers with markers, slime, play dough, wet nail polish, and of course, food on my dining room chairs, I couldn't stand them anymore. (The chairs, not the kids! lol) I really needed to try to get them clean, and prefer homemade remedies to store-bought chemicals. I found this recipe posted on http://do-it-yourself.tribe.net/thread/480e9776-2d06-4ecd-b0cf-bd4fbd56d307..."

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Ingredients: borax, pure soap flakes...

"This method is nothing short of a miracle to clean kitchen hood filters. Non-toxic and cheap, cheap, cheap! The only problem you should have is finding the right vessel. I used a roasting pan, but maybe using a disposable aluminum pan would work. Add the soda at the beginning to the cool water so it doesn't fizz and overflow. As embarrassing as..."

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Ingredients: water, baking soda...

"My MIL found this in her local newpaper in Redding California and shared it will all the girls in the family as we all have small kids, especially boys, that are in one stage or another of being Toilet Trained. You all know how that can smell up your bathroom when they miss the toilet as they learn to aim. This also applies to some adults I know...LOL...."

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Ingredients: lemons, white vinegar...

"bleach alternative color safe"

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Ingredients: hydrogen peroxide, essential oils...

"I found this recipe on yahoo answers so I put it here for safe keeping. I live in East Tx and we have ant problems year round. I can't wait to try this."

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Ingredients: tea, orange oil, molasses...

"I have had the itchiest, most irritating mosquito bites ever in the last couple of days! Usually they don't bother me that much but this time, they are driving me crazy!!!! I remembered reading somewhere that baking soda is soothing so my husband and I came up with this recipe. There was a tiny bit of burn on some bites, but they are the ones that I..."

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Ingredients: water, baking soda...

"this is perfectly safe around kids.. it works and it is very inexpensive as it only has 3 ingriedients"

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Ingredients: glycerin, liquid, baking soda...

"My kids and former husband were bad about leaving their glass full of melting ice on top of their desks or next to their chair. I've found this works pretty well on most water stains on wooden furniture. This works best if you can get to the water mark earlier, rather than on one that has been there for years. This works best if you mix a little cigar..."

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Ingredients: cloth, mayonnaise...

"For soft & fluffy woollens, from Bosisto's...Please note...The second ingredient should be methylated spirits...not sure whether mineral spirits are the same but that's all Food.com would accept."

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Ingredients: mineral spirits, eucalyptus oil...

"This is apparently ideal to keep earwigs, slugs, snails & slaters at bay. From Bosisto's Eucalyptus Oil site."

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Ingredients: liquid dishwashing soap, eucalyptus oil...

"Embarrassingly easy.You can use fresh mint by all means,I prefer to use dried because I think the tea comes out stronger. Not just for upset stomachs,this is a really refreshing tea with a spicy-fresh flavor that I like to drink anytime it's cold outside. This is another good tea for when you have a cold;and of course it's good for indigestion,nausea,or..."

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Ingredients: fresh ginger, fresh mint leaves...