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I find mopping my floors is daily (or more often) event in my home. Wintertime here in the Pacific Northwest means a lot of rain and when you live in the country and you mix rain with dirt, well you have a lot of mud; mud that seems to get brought into the house on a regular basis. I am sure many of you living in the country can relate to this.
I have tried many products over the years to keep my floors looking sparkling clean. In the last few years I have become more focused on getting away from store bought chemically laden (and expensive) cleaners. I found I can easily make up a batch of floor cleaner that is natural and easy on the budget.
Here is the recipe I make:
Homemade Floor Cleaner
1 cup white vinegar
1 gallon warm water
Mix in your cleaning bucket and use this to clean your floors. You can add a little essential oil to this to give it fresh scent. My favorite oils to add are orange, lemon or rosemary.
Even wood floors can be cleaned with this as long as your mop is damp (not too wet) and no puddles of water are left behind.
What to Clean your Floor With?
The biggest trend I see in cleaning floors is to use those popular “Swiffer” mops. The problem I have with them is that you need to rely on purchasing the little cloths continually (and it is still a chemical type cleaner being used). I also was never very happy with the job they did. I guess with country living I need something that can handle the tough job of cleaning up after kids and pets.
I have discovered a mop that is similar to the “Swiffer” but has washable cloths that can be reused over and over. I have bought a couple of these over the last few years. I found my first one from a cleaning company called The Clean Team. The second one I found at Home Depot. I like the one from the clean team the best. You can see a picture of one HERE. These mops have paid for themselves countless times over the years and I felt were well worth the cost to invest in them.
This is how the mops are used and the process used to clean my floors: I make up my floor cleaner in a small bucket and leave it in my laundry room. When I need to wash my floor I dip the reusable cloth cover in the cleaning water and put this on my mop, then I mop the floor. When the cloth cover is dirty, I take it off and grab another clean one to dip in my bucket and continue the process until my floors are clean. My bucket of cleaning water never gets dirty and lasts me much longer and I never am rinsing mops in dirty water. Then I wash the cloth covers in a load with my other cleaning rags.
Crystal and her husband Tobin, along with 6 of their 8 homeschooled children make their home on 18 acres in SW Washington State. Crystal enjoys caring for her home and family and her farm. You can visit Crystal’s website: The Family Homestead or Crystal’s Country Store where she sells her own goat milk soap, ebooks and more!
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