Household cleaners can be very expensive, so give my homemade furniture polish recipe a try! With just a few cheap ingredients, you can rid your house of gross chemicals and save a ton of money in the process.
Homemade Furniture Polish
Supplies:
- Vinegar (I use white because it’s cheapest!)
- Olive Oil
- 1 Empty Spray Bottle
This cleaner and homemade furniture polish can easily be customized.
A few examples of this would be to substitute some of the vinegar with lemon juice. This will also clean and disinfect, but will also smell great and add some natural citrus oil to the mix. Another thing you could do is to add a few drops of your favorite essential oils! The vinegar does initially stink when you are cleaning with it, but the smell does fade away, leaving you with a clean surface, minus chemicals!
To Make:
Seriously, you just pour in a generous amount of vinegar and a few drops to a tablespoon or two of olive oil.
Close up your spray bottle and shake it up a bit each time you use it to evenly disperse the ingredients. (My kids love this part because they say it makes the cleaner look like pee. Whatever makes them want to clean, right?!)
The vinegar cleans and disinfects while the olive oil protects your wood surfaces, leaving them shiny!
Green Cleaning
I love to use this because it’s very inexpensive and because it is totally safe to use around my young children. My one year old has a tendency to lock himself in the utility room to try and spray all of the cleaners. He also loves to hijack the spray cleaners we use on the table and floor while we are distracted. He is a little trigger-happy! This ensures that he is not going to get sick or hurt when he’s being a little naughty toddler.
To make our green cleaning routine even better, we use reusable cloths for all of our cleaning needs. They’re simple to throw in with loads of laundry throughout the week, so it’s no extra expense to launder them.
Have you ever made homemade furniture polish?

I’m super excited to try this!! I don’t even own furniture polish but I need some for our table…I always just wipe it down.
Carrie recently posted…TEACH Documentary – A Glimpse into the Lives of Four Public School Teachers
Nice. i’m going to try this at home too.
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Wow what a wonderful idea! I need to try this. Carrie, A Mother’s Shadow
I make most of my own cleaners and have for years – I think they work a lot better than commercial ones and are safer like you said. I remember once when my oldest son – who is now 16 – used some type of cleaner I had (before I made my own) when he was about 3 or 4 and went in my closet and sprayed my clothes – it ruined a couple of pairs of pants I had hanging in there. Your story of your son reminded me of that.
Kimberlee recently posted…Working Out Week 18 of 2014
Oh, man!! That stinks when they hide out and make messes. Mine are all about it. 😉
Do you add essential oils to your liquid cleaners?
Jenn recently posted…20 Random Facts About Me #30Things
Love the DIY cleaners. 🙂 No need to worry about the kids getting into them. Never thought to use olive oil in a cleaner either, but I can see how it would make for a nice polish!
CJ Huang recently posted…Five Friday Finds #136
Whoah, I never thought to do it like this before! You are the BOMB! Thank you so much!
Katie Mcnaughton recently posted…What To Do When You Just Won’t Zip It
Looks like a great idea to try!
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Trying this now!