Spring cleaning/cleaning wipes recipe

HOME-MADE CLEANING WIPES RECIPE

I really like this idea I found on http://organizedhome.com/. Go there for the paper towel/pine-sol version. Stay here for my more economical/cheaper version. :-)

I have always thought those cleaning wipes looked very convenient, but I have never allowed myself to buy them!

I made these today using my own home-made cleaning solutions and old rags instead of paper towels. The rags clean so much better than paper towels!

Here is one of the recipes I use - gleaned from books from the library and internet studies of essential oils!:

Cleaning solution

• 1 cup of vinegar
  
• 2 cups of water
• One squirt of dish-washing liquid (about the same you'd use to do the dishes)
• 25 drops of essential oil (I currently have lemon-grass, pine, and tea tree/Melaleuca in my cabinets). I could go on and on about essential oils ,but I'll say a couple of basic things to help anyone who doesn't know what they are to understand. If you have a big interest in them, the library and internet have a lot of interesting books about them.
  

Essential oils can be bought at health food stores, nature stores, and they have tea tree oil at Walmart in the vitamin section! We also have a health store here in in town where I bought my lemon-grass & pine oils. The essential oils I listed above are all disinfectants and they smell wonderful! They not only disinfect but some have healing properties (especially tea tree oil!)The ones I mentioned usually cost around $5 a bottle, and they last a LONG time. I have had mine for months! Much better than spending $3 a week for pine-sol or lysol ...and they smell so much better !

Mix 2 cups of water, 1 squirt of dishwashing liquid, & 25 drops of essential oil. The essential oil also discourages molding! :-)

If you don't have essential oils and want to try this, you will still have clean kitchen or bathroom with just vinegar. The essential oils add a very pleasant smell and disinfectant qualities!

Pour all of this over the rags and into a Rubbermaid, Tupperware, or whatever type of container you have on hand that will hold three cups of solution and rags. You can drill a hole in the top but I think that they dry out too fast if you drill a hole.

VERY CONVENIENT!