Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Super homemade glass cleaner

At last I found somebody have similar interest but with more time - Crunch Betty.  This is the glass cleaner formula from her blog, well experimented in different ingredients.

1 cup hot water
1/8 cup vinegar
1/8 rubbing alcohol 70% isopropyl (first aid)
1/2 tbsp cornstarch

No matter how awesome baking soda is, it can't clean glass with streaking, and a lot of it.

This formula works without streaking.  It's easy to make instantly.  It cost very little.  The result is perfect if your glass isn't too dirty, as in exterior windows.The vinegar smell goes away very soon, and smelling not as strong as my CLR biodegradable.

The best use of it is via a dry microfiber cloth.  There is no lint.  I wash them after use and they last a long time.  But themselves aren't a green product.

For the outside window, you need some elbow grease if you clean them once a year.  I don't know if other glass cleaners fairs better.  But I can use baking soda first to rub out the stains, rinse the glass thoroughly, then the super glass cleaner.

Being professional, the problem is that her blog is full of other not so good stuff to make up the numbers.  Do you want to make your own shampoo?

The reason I like this one is that I can safely use it around the kitchen windows without moving away the other things that may one day in touch with food or eating utensils.

A bad one for example, commonly found all over in other places, is use vinegar mixed with water for carpet cleaning.  The mixture is half and half, making it quite expensive compared with carpet shampoo.  One gal of carpet shampoo can be used many many times diluted.  One gal of vinegar last a few times at most.  And if you put that much vinegar on the carpet all over the place, the smell ...

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