Home Tricks: How to Clean Your Home – Even Your Oven – with Baking Soda, Vinegar and Lemon Juice

Maintaining a clean and tidy home is important to maintaining a healthy and stress-free environment, but many cleaning products on the market are filled with harsh chemicals that can be harmful to both your health and the environment. Fortunately, there is a simple and natural alternative that can effectively clean your home without the use of harsh chemicals: baking soda, lemon, and vinegar.

These three common household items have powerful cleaning properties that can tackle a variety of cleaning tasks, from removing stains and grime to disinfecting surfaces and freshening the air. In this article, we’ll explore the effectiveness of home cleaning with baking soda, lemon, and vinegar, and provide tips and tricks for getting the most out of these natural cleaners.

What do I need for DIY cleaning my house:

Toilet
I put 1/2 cup baking soda, 10 drops grapefruit essential oil, and 1/4 cup white vinegar in the toilet and scrub it while it fizzes. The smell makes me happy. The porcelain shines.
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Bathroom
I use blogger Amanda Watters’ bath mix (1/4 cup liquid castile soap, 10 drops thieves or tea tree oil, and a cup baking soda). It leaves the bathroom clean, but all it takes is a good amount of elbow grease and a little water to leave it shiny.

Countertop
For an all-purpose spray, I make a solution of equal parts vinegar and water and add lemon juice. It’s a little more acidic than my usual cooking spray, but it smells fresh and cuts through grease gently.

Oven This is
always the cleaning job I dread the most and for which conventional cleaners charge a small fortune. I coat the inside of my oven with a paste of baking soda and water. Left for at least an hour, preferably overnight, it works perfectly (with a good dose of vigorous scrubbing).

The Floor
I clean my hardwood floors with a solution of 1 teaspoon of Castile soap and 10 drops of tea tree oil in 1 gallon of warm water. It’s great: the floor is perfectly clean. In fact, my whole house is dandy; mixing the ingredients is not much work: all I needed was a fork and a glass. Once rinsed, I could happily make an omelette with them.