Make Your Own Floor Cleaner For Swifter

Homemade swiffer cleaning solution recipe.

Make your own floor cleaner for swifter.

Attach it to the swiffer. That really is it. Add 1 cup of lemon juice. Mix 3 1 2 cups warm to hot water with 1 3 4 cups white vinegar.

Then i discovered that you can actually make your own swiffer pads and solution. We make our own with just 3 ingredients. How to make your own swiffer pads and solution. Combine the ingredients in a large bowl.

For the cleaner all you really need is water and white vinegar. But i ve got to admit that i m a little tired of spending the money on them. Not only are they reusable but they re gentle on floors and they smell amazing. Measure out 3 cups of vinegar and add it to the bucket.

While i make it a point to clean and mop my kitchen floors twice weekly i like to use my swiffer for a quick cleaning pick me up around my kitchen. Even bottles of commercial mopping products run anywhere from 4 to 15 depending on the brand. The cost of commercial floor cleaners is crazy. Pour 4 cups of hot water into a bucket or pitcher.

I use swiffer sweeper and wet jet but i noted it started leaving floors very tacky so i looked up solution and a lot of people were complaining about it being tacky and a couple thought it caused death of pets after licking floor so i got a refillable cleaner with washable pads now use vinegar water and dishwash liquid and floors stopped being. Water and vinegar and a couple of drops of dish soap. Insert a funnel into an empty swiffer solution bottle and pour in your homemade solution. For how to clean vinyl floors or other types of floors add the ingredients to a plastic or glass spray bottle and shake well.

You can also combine the ingredients in a bucket but you ll have to dump out any leftovers once you ve finished cleaning the floor. Using a swiffer mop for instance runs about 0 32 per wet pad and you have to use two or three of them in even a small kitchen or bathroom. And while i ve always loved my swiffer for its simplicity i don t love the cleaning solution itself. It smells toxic to me and i avoid it like the plague.

Or you can dip the swiffer mop head directly into the solution and mop your floor as normal. Don t worry your floors won t reek of vinegar. Buy a microfiber cloth and cut it to size. Save money or save the planet.

Spray the cleaner liberally on the floor and wipe with a mop. Instead of buying a new bottle of swiffer cleaning solution every. Here are 13 ways to make your own swiffer pads. Water distilled vinegar dish soap.