Instructions for a Homemade Toilet Cleaner

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“Homemade Cleaners,” by Mandy O’Brien and Dionna Ford, provides more than 150 recipes for a naturally clean home, including instructions for making a heavy-duty homemade toilet cleaner.
“Homemade Cleaners,” by Mandy O’Brien and Dionna Ford, provides more than 150 recipes for a naturally clean home, including instructions for making a heavy-duty homemade toilet cleaner.
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All you need to make a heavy-duty homemade toilet cleaner is borax, vinegar and essential oils.
All you need to make a heavy-duty homemade toilet cleaner is borax, vinegar and essential oils.

Homemade Cleaners (Ulysses Press, 2014), by Mandy O’Brien and Dionna Ford offers a safer solution to commercial cleaners with toxic chemicals with tips, tricks and formulas to make your home sparkling and germ-free. Using ingredients like vinegar, baking soda and even vodka, O’Brien and Ford tackle everything from countertop cleaners to air-purifying plants, enabling you to avoid using products that can cause skin irritation, asthma and other harmful side effects. The following excerpt from the chapter “Bathrooms” teaches you how to make a heavy-duty homemade toilet cleaner.

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In the bathroom, most surfaces can be cleaned with all-purpose cleaners, and counters can be given the same treatment as kitchen counters. But toilets, tubs, and a moist environment present a unique set of challenges. Don’t despair. Those issues can be overcome with these simple answers to your bathroom needs.

Toilets and Tubs

Even though the kitchen harbors the most bacteria in the house, that’s not to say your bathroom is pristine. Every time you flush your toilet, an aerosol spray of water droplets, laden with bits of feces and urine, explodes into the bathroom. The bacteria contained in those bits of waste travel as far as eight feet from the toilet, onto your bathroom sink, the floor, and even your toothbrushes. Closing the toilet lid before flushing can limit the spray, but it won’t completely eliminate the spread of bacteria. Nothing is safe.

  • Published on Nov 26, 2014
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