Natural Homemade Toilet Bowl Cleaner
This natural homemade toilet bowl cleaner is quick and easy to make, costs pennies, smells divine, and really works!
Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 3 1/2 cups
Ingredients
- 1 cup distilled water
- 1 cup baking soda
- 1 cup liquid castile soap
- 1/4 cup distilled white vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon tea tree essential oil
- 1/2 teaspoon lavender essential oil
Instructions
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Stir the baking soda into the water.
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Add in the castile soap.
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Then gradually add in the vinegar a little bit at a time. It will foam and fizz like soda.
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Lastly, add in the tea tree oil and lavender essential oil.
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Transfer this mixture to an old toilet cleaner squeeze bottle. Give the bottle a shake before using.
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This works to clean the toilet seat and toilet bowl.
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For really dirty bowls you can apply straight vinegar or make a solution of 1 cup borax and 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice.
Recipe Notes
Recipe from Sophie Uliano
Photo by Trent Lanz and styling by Alicia Buszczak
Comments 18
What a fun post; I’m gunna try this out this week! Thanks Tess; loved seeing you last weekend at BlogHer Food.
Miss you already and hope all is well in Cali.
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Thanks Amie,
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Super cool!
I actually make mouthwash that has similar ingredients. 🙂
Oh, WONDERFUL!
Could you please share your recipes with everyone? I would love to post it here with your permission?
I made this today and just used it to clean my toilets and it is amazing. It made both of my bathrooms smell amazing. I am checking out Sophie’s website now. Thanks for another great easy recipe.
I am so glad you liked this! Sophie is great!
I have been using vinegar for a long time. But I will try this for variation.
Yes, vinegar is FANTASTIC.
I can’t wait to hear what you think of this for variety!
Just reading the title made me happy. Few only wants to talk about cleaning the toiler bowl. Baking powder to clean my kitchen sink is my favorite. I’ve never thought of using it as a toilet bowl cleaner before but I’m really excited to see how it works.
Great! I can’t wait to hear what you think!
I always love to learn about ways that others clean their homes with natural products. Thanks so much for sharing!
Me too! I love collecting new natural remedies and recipes.
Thank you for that recipe I will try it for sure! Do you use it for anything else?
Pleasure! This recipe is FANtastic! I just use this one for the toilet. I use the other recipes for different things. But plain old vinegar, lemon juice, water, baking soda, or natural oils works on most things!
Yay! Thanks for the feedback, I’ll definitely switch to making my own cleaning products 🙂
Pleasure! Yes, they are so easy to make, really work, work out cheaper, and are much kinder on the environment.
Great tool to use to clean out the toilet holes under the rim—-a bicycle spoke. The end is threaded to make cleaning much easier, you can bend it into any shape that helps, and it’s CHEAP and lasts forever. New spoke at a bike shop–about a buck, or use one out an old wheel if you have one.
Awesome tip. Thanks for sharing.