With spring cleaning season coming soon, today I am sharing natural spring cleaning essentials to clean your home without adding more toxins into your home!
I love to clean my home using cleaners and ingredients that are not toxic to me and my family. My son is getting to be that age where he loves to help me clean and I want to be able to give him something that I won’t be worried about him intoxicating himself with.
Why Use Non-Toxic Cleaners?
If you want to learn more about how and why you should use “green” cleaners, read more about it from my friend Meghan from Holistic Nurse Momma here. She shares 5 practical green cleaning tips like swapping dryer sheets with wool dryer balls, making your own cleaners, researching the products you do buy, avoiding antibacterial cleaners, and not buying air fresheners. Meghan also shares what dangerous ingredients to steer away from and why.
Lemon & Vinegar Cleaner
*photo credit: Marta Miatta from Out by the Door– “DIY Lemon and Vinegar Cleaner: Easy, Effective, All-Natural”
If you are looking for a super simple and all-natural cleaner to make for spring cleaning, this one is a perfect one to start with! It’s made with just 2 ingredients: vinegar and lemon peels! Talk about a fresh-smelling home for spring! Visit my friend Marta at Out by the Door here to learn more about how to make this cleaner!
Homemade All-Purpose Cleaner with Tea Tree Oil
*photo credit: Trina Ander from Simply Living This Life– “Homemade Natural All Purpose Cleaner”
This all-purpose cleaner is another essential to make and have for spring cleaning! All it takes is water, vinegar, and tea tree essential oil. Tea tree oil has properties that disinfect and sterilize so it’s great for all surfaces! Head over to Simply Living This Life for the exact steps on how to make this all-purpose cleaner!
Our all-purpose cleaning spray is almost identical to the one above but we use lemon essential oils instead. Feel free to give them both a try and don’t forget to leave ratings and reviews!
Natural Cleaning Essentials in The Kitchen
Natural & Homemade Oven Cleaner: Instead of using harsh chemicals that will linger and penetrate into your food, simply make this baking soda paste and let it do it’s job!
DIY Natural Dishwasher Detergent: Dishwasher pods are made using plastic and other toxic ingredients that we then consume on our “clean” plates. Think about the micro-plastics lingering in every bite and going into the bodies of you kiddos and loved ones. I know I sound a little dramatic but little things like this adds up and shows up in various health conditions!
Natural Cleaning Essentials in the Bathroom
DIY Toilet Bowl Cleaner : Use this mixture of Castile soap, hydrogen peroxide, vinegar, baking soda, water, and essential oils to give your toilet a deep clean!
Natural Cleaning Essentials in the Laundry Room
How to Naturally Remove Tough Stains on Clothes: Before going to town on bleach, whiteners, or stain removers, try these natural remedies first! When I first learned about them I was skeptical that they would work. But honestly that is all I use now and I would never want to go back! Some boiling water, sunlight, baking soda, and hydrogen peroxide can go a long way!
Let’s Talk Laundry Detergents!
Since we are talking about natural cleaning essentials in the laundry room, we can’t move on without addressing what laundry detergents we are using! There are so much harmful ingredients in typical detergents so here are a few recipes to make your own at home. It is honestly so easy and much cheaper to make it yourself than to buy natural detergents out there!
“Homemade Laundry Powder with Castile Bar Soap“: Violet from Right at Home has this laundry powder recipe that is a nice fine powder made with all natural ingredients and it works on all types of loads from delicates to heavy-duty work clothes.
*Photo credit: Violet from Right at Home: “Homemade Laundry Detergent with Castile Bar Soap”
Homemade Liquid Laundry Detergent with Essential Oils: If you are looking for a liquid detergent option, here is our recipe!
Ditch the Air Fresheners- Natural Ways to Make Your Home Smell Good
We all want our homes to smell good, clean, and inviting. Instead of buying toxic and way overkill (if you ask me) air fresheners, here are some natural ways to make your home smell good!
- Make Herbal Sachets!
Trina from Harvesting Quality Thyme shares this neat way to naturally scent your home using dried herbs. She sews the herbs into pouches and then distributes them in closets, drawers, or literally wherever you want! This can also help with repelling bugs and insects from your home and closets depending on what herbs you choose. After bringing in firewood, we started to get moths in the house so I want to make some of these sachets with moth-repelling herbs.
*Photo Credit: Trina from Harvesting Quality Thyme– “How to Make Herbal Sachets for a Naturally Scented Home”
- Make a Simmer Pot: Before company comes or whenever you’re in the mood, throw whatever blend you’re feeling into a pot and let it simmer. A nice spring simmer pot blend would be slices of lemons, lavender, and rosemary.
- Light a beeswax or tallow candle! Instead of releasing toxins in the air, beeswax and tallow candles actually purify the air.
Thank You!
Thanks for stopping by our online nest where we share all about homemaking: cozy decorating, delicious cooking, and non-toxic cleaning! Thank you to Harvesting Quality Thyme, Right at Home, Simply Living this Life, Out By the Door, and Holistic Nurse Momma for collaborating with us on this post to bring you great natural cleaner recipes and non-toxic living inspiration!
Great list! We use baking soda and vinegar for almost everything around here!
This is such a great list! I’m going to have to try your toilet bowl cleaner at some point! I typically use citric acid, but I’d love something that would remove grime a little more easily.