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

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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.

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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.