Tuesday, March 6, 2012

My Favorite Homemade Cleaner

I received this recipe as a wedding gift.  No joke.  The crunchies will probably flip because it uses ammonia instead of vinegar, but I really like how ammonia cleans.  It's an amazing degreaser, but folks are turned off by the smell (but for some reason highly perfumed stuff is fine) and the scare factor (just don't mix it with any product that may have chlorine bleach in it).  I've actually used ammonia solutions to wash years of cigarette smoke scum off of walls and blinds easy-peasy.

To make 2 quarts (conveniently, the size of an ammonia bottle):
1/4 cup Ammonia (I use Lemon)
1 cup Rubbing Alcohol
1/2 teaspoon dish soap (I'm bad and just do a small squirt)
Water to make 2 quarts

I use this stuff everywhere: to soak off the gunk on the stovetop, to clean my laminate floors, my daughter's "artwork" on the furniture (the alcohol helps dissolve ink).

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