Recipes For Household Products

Recipes For Household Products

Floor Cleaner

Use washing soda from the grocery store. You may add borax
and boric acid (to deter insects except ants). Use white distilled
vinegar in your rinse water for a natural shine and ant repellent.
Do not add bleach to this. For the bathroom floor use plain
bleach water—follow the label. Never use chlorine bleach if
anybody in the home is ill or suffers from depression. Use grain
alcohol (1 pint to 3 quarts water) for germ killing action instead
of chlorine.
Furniture Duster and Window Cleaner
Mix equal parts white distilled vinegar and water. Put it in a
spray bottle.

Furniture Polish
A few drops of olive oil on a dampened cloth. Use filtered
water to dampen.
Insect Killer
Boric acid powder (not borax). Throw liberal amounts behind
stove, refrigerator, under carpets and in carpets. Since boric
acid is white, you must be careful not to mistake it for sugar
accidentally. Keep it far away from food and out of children's
reach. Buy it at a farm supply or garden store (or see Sources). It
will not kill ants.
Ant Repellent
Spray 50% white distilled vinegar on counter tops, window
sills and shelves and wipe, leaving residue. Start early in spring
before they arrive, because it takes a few weeks to rid yourself
of them once they are established. If you want immediate action,
get some lemons, cut the yellow outer peel off and cover with
grain alcohol in a tightly closed jar. Let stand at least one hour.
Use 1 part of this concentrate with 9 parts water in a spray bottle.
Mix only as much as you will use because the diluted form loses
potency. Spray walls, floors, carpets wherever you see them. The
lemon solution even leaves a shine on your counters. Use both
vinegar and lemon approaches to rid yourself of ants.
To treat the whole house, pour vinegar all around your
foundation, close to the wall, using one gallon for every five feet.
Expect to damage any foliage it touches. Reapply every six
months.