Make Your Own Daily Shower Cleaner

9th August, 2010 - Posted by carsi - 3 Comments

I like using a daily shower cleaner because I’m lazy, and it cuts down on the time I have to spend actually scrubbing the tub. Just spray it on after a shower and it keeps it fairly clean for awhile. Anyway, I ran out of my store-bought, chemically shower cleaner recently so I’ve been looking for some ideas of how to make my own green cleaner. I came across these instructions and these instructions and sort of improvised with a bunch of the ingredients–baking soda, lemon juice, vinegar, and tea tree oil–and put it in an old spray bottle. It turned into this slightly unappealing yellowy color, but it smells really nice and seems to be working so far!

3 Comments

Eric

August 11th, 2010 at 12:34 am    


Doesn’t the vinegar and baking soda simply react with each other and form sodium acetate? Whether sodium acetate is an effective shower cleaner is a question I don’t know the answer to, but I don’t think the people in those links know either since they only discuss the cleaning power of the initial ingredients.

carsi

August 11th, 2010 at 8:29 am    


hmm I don’t know the answer either! If you’re worried about the vinegar and baking soda, that second link recommends just using tea tree oil and water, so that would probably avoid the sodium acetate problem.

katherine

August 11th, 2010 at 10:43 pm    


Eric, you are banned from leaving comments

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