Replace five conventional household cleaners with these simple castile soap cleaning solutions. Save money and eliminate toxic cleaners from your home!
Castile soap is one of my greatest green and natural loves. It is made from plant-based oils and free of artificial foaming agents, harsh cleansers and detergents, petrochemicals, and anti-bacterial agents like triclosan.
I use castile soap as the base for almost all of my homemade natural cleaning recipes because it is so effective. And don’t be put off by the price of a bottle! Castile soap is concentrated, so a little goes a long way, making it very budget-friendly!
Because it has so many different uses all around the house, you can replace multiple different products with this one versatile soap.
How to replace five conventional cleaning products with homemade castile soap cleaning recipes.
1. Replace Multipurpose Cleaner
Replace your conventional multipurpose cleaner with an effective homemade solution using just three simple ingredients: castile soap, tea tree oil, and water. Click here for the easy directions! I use this instead of 409 or Clorox Anywhere cleaners in my home.
2. Replace Disposable Disinfecting Wipes
Instead of throwing away disinfecting wipes after one use, make your own homemade reusable disinfecting wipes with castile soap and essential oils. I’ve been able to stop using Clorox disinfecting wipes since coming up with this recipes.
3. Replace Scouring Scrubs
This homemade soft scrub uses just castile soap and baking soda. Or this recipe is a little more heavy duty with the addition of salt and cream of tartar. Try them both in your kitchen and bathroom!
4. Replace Floor Cleaner
Combine 1/4 cup of castile soap with 2 gallons of hot water in a bucket. Add essential oils according to your preference – lemon, lavender, peppermint, or eucalyptus are great ones to try. You can mop just about any type of floor with this solution.
5. Replace Dusting Spray
Fill a spray bottle most of the way with water and add about 1 Tbsp castile soap and 10 drops of lemon essential oil to the bottle. Shake gently to combine. Spray directly onto a microfiber cleaning cloth and use to dust and wipe down surfaces around your house. Also check out my experience with two different homemade dusting spray recipes.
These cleaning solutions are a great way to get started with homemade green cleaning! Get yourself a bottle of castile soap and discover all of the ways you can use it to simplify cleaning around your house!
What is your favorite way to use castile for cleaning your home?
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These are some very good recipes! I’m definitely recommending your post to my sister because she’s recently trying to minimize all the chemicals at her home and to use mainly natural solutions when cleaning. All the recipes are quite simple and seem to be quite efficient. thank you for sharing!
There’s some good recipe. I can help my family to fix some household. Thank you for recipes.
Can you mix all of those ingredients and leave for long time, does the effect of the disinfecting oils loose power after time?
My husband hates the smell of the vinegar, would the essential oil eliminate the vinegar smell?
The oils would help to cover up the vinegar smell, but it’s still there a bit. My husband hates the smell of vinegar too, so I don’t usually use it when he’s around. You can mix these cleaners together and store them for a while, but I wouldn’t let them sit for more than a month or two. I usually use mine up before that time though. Hope that helps, Emily
What a great read! Purging always feels great. I really like your tip about up-cycling; it’s so great when you can appreciate an item all over again.
I love learning all about Castile soap and it’s MANY uses!!! Thank you!! I found one that already had the tea tree oil in it so it makes my life even faster to make up a less harsh but better cleaning solution!! I apprecate your help!!!