This is my one of my favorite homemade cleaners. It is amazing and has just 2 ingredients: blue dawn and white vinegar. You also need any empty spray bottle. (Mine has the cleaner in it and I’m just adding more to it)
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Heat up 12 oz. of vinegar in the microwave. I heated mine up for 2 minutes.
After you heat it up, add it to your spray bottle.
Then add 10 oz. of blue dawn. {don’t substitute another dish soap} I got this huge bottle on clearance at Target for $2.50!
Shake gently to combine
Here is my dirty bathroom sink, don’t judge me.
Spray the cleaner and let it sit for a few minutes {when I clean my shower I let it sit for a few hours if it is really dirty, even overnight}
This cleaner just melts the gunk and grime right off your sink. You don’t even have to scrub it. I just wiped it down with a dry washcloth. A sponge makes it suds too much; trust me. It also does a great job of cleaning and shining your faucets. I use it to clean my kitchen sink too.
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It looks so much better, so nice and shiny! This cleans better than any other cleaner I’ve tried. I love that it is just 2 simple ingredients that I always have on hand. One thing to note, Dawn has ammonia in it so DO NOT combine it with bleach or any products that contain bleach!!
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12 oz. Vinegar (heated)
10 oz. Blue Dawn
Heat the vinegar for 2 minutes and add to a spray bottle. Add the Blue Dawn and shake gently to combine. Use to clean your sinks, tubs and showers.
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That’s a great tip! Thanks for sharing, I didn’t know Dawn has ammonia in it…I have been using the hand renewal one and I have granite counters. So Don’t use this on Granite. But my tub and shower are a who different story
Do u need to re-heat every time? How long is it good for once u mix it up?
Thnx!
I cannot use any dish soap other than Watkins. I cannot use any chemical type cleaner(dishsoap)..I cannot even use Seventh Generation or Meyers anymore, since they changed their ingredients. Is there anything else I can use to get the same effects? Can I use my Watkins dish soap and have the same results?
I say give it a try and use your Watkins soap, maybe just make half a batch so if it doesn’t work you haven’t wasted your soap.
This is my new all time favorite!! I use it in the bathroom to get rid of soap scum and in the kitchen to cut grease. It is amazing and I love it!! (And you only have to heat it up when you are combining it the first time. It does not separate. I have not had it “go bad” and I mix up a bottle and use it until its gone.
So excited you chose to do a post about this one. I usually use Bar Keepers friend if my sinks and tubs get really bad with hard water, but this will be a weekly cleaner!
I actually think I have an even better tub and shower cleaner and I got the idea from you Fab Fru Gals! I think you posted a DIY cleaner of some kind that had Borax in it and I have had the box just sitting around in my laundry room waiting… I opened it up about a month ago and decided to try just sprinkling it in my sinks instead of Comet as a scum and soap stain remover. You don’t even need to scrub much, just use minimal elbow grease with a wet sponge and your sinks and tubs have never shined more. You don’t need to rinse the surfaces off forever with water like with Comet to get it’s residue off–Borax just washes right down the drain. It’s inexpensive and eco-friendly and your surfaces will shine like new.
Maybe being nit picky, but since you said not to substitute any other soap…Does it have to be blue dawn? Or can it be a different variety? I’m not sure what the subtle differences are between the types and if that would change it enough to mess up this cleaner that sounds fab!
All I’ve used is Dawn with it so I’m not sure how another soap would do, from all the other things I’ve read online everyone agrees that the Blue Dawn is the best and to only use Blue Dawn
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I just checked my stockpile – all I have is orange Dawn. Should I give that a go or just go get some blue dawn while I am out shopping for the ingredients for the home made laundry soap?
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So rather than sitting and waiting – I got anxious and decided to try it with the orange dawn. After all I got on on a fantastic deal so if it doesn’t work out its not a huge loss.
I forgot how much I disliked the smell of vinegar but I will tell you this cleaner works WONDERFULLY! WOW. I am sold on this.
Thanks for posting it!
What am I missing? I tried this, with blue dawn even and had no luck at all! Are you using this just on toothpaste stuff or on the really tough stuff? Just frustrating that so many are super excited about it and all I got was blue lines that I had to scrub off with something else…
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I used it on the bathroom sink and the bathtub and the faucets. I sprayed it on and let it sit for a few minutes before wiping it off.
I even used it on my kitchen sink…and on my aluminum baking pans. They always get that baked on yello grease (yuck!) but after letting this sit on the pans for a little but that came off too with very little efford.
I am not sure why yours is leaving blue lines…did the dawn emulsify & turn color to a bright blue (like above) with the vinegar when you mixed it?
I’m sorry it isn’t working for you. I have used it on the tough stuff and it comes right off. Are you spraying enough on? I really saturate the area I want to be cleaned.
Okay, can anyone who has tried this tell me what you do about all the stinkin’ suds? I sprayed my shower doors, but when it came time to rinse it, there were so many suds I couldn’t rinse it clean, and my sponge is STILL saturated with soap…after 45 minutes of rinsing the doors, rinsing the sponge, and rinsing the doors again. I finally gave up. The suds were multiplying! I got so frustrated I just left it, and now my doors look worse than ever with all that smeared around cleaner dried on the doors…I followed the directions to the letter!
The instructions say don’t use a sponge, it suds too much..use a dry towel
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Hi I’m just wondering though if this would be disinfecting enough to use in bathroom etc? I always want to kill the germs and disinfect, yes even the sink…can you tell me if the vinegar and soap have anything in them that does this? I’d love to try…Thanks!
I was super excited about this and tried it when we were cleaning for our move from our apartment yesterday. I’m not sure what I did wrong in using it but will try it one more time before I dismiss it. I have one window in a small bathroom. I sprayed the entire shower (maybe I did too big of an area?) and almost immediately my eyes and throat were burning. I kept having to step out. So you really need super good ventilation. Apparently one open window and a door open to the hallway is not enough. Also, I had the same problem as one of the other posters. Mine left some dim blue streaks but mostly, it left major soap scum. I was confused, since the whole idea is to REMOVE soap scum. The only thing I can think that happened is that 1) I sprayed too much on and 2) in the time it took me to get from one part of the shower to the other, it had dried in a sort of film. I tried wiping it off with my dry cloth and it was already dried and fixed on to the tile. It was just like wiping at soap scum. Yes, when I was making it I did heat the vinegar and mix it with the Dawn and my whole bottle was a lovely shade of blue. I ended up mostly fixing my dilemma by waiting until everything was dry, wetting a scrubber sponge, and the scrubbing and rinsing the dried parts off. Took me about twice a long.
Any input? I really wanted it to work!
I tried this today on a very gunky sink. It had gunk around the faucet and handles base, and was starting to mold. Sprayed it on heavily, let it sit 15 min or so. Wiped down with paper towels. The slight soap residue is what gives it the shiny look and prevents future gunk, mold, toothpaste, etc from adhering for several days. It works like the Scrubbing Bubbles Extend-A-Clean does. But much cheaper!!! Thanks!!