Table of Contents[Hide][Show]
If you’re here, that means you are interested in some aspect of healthy living. Maybe you are improving your diet, working on sleeping, or drinking more clean water.
You’re working to make sure that you are only ingesting healthy foods, and it’s important to make sure you aren’t using the unhealthy ones on the outside either!
Chemicals in Cleaners and Beauty Products
Most conventional beauty and cleaning products are full of questionable or outright dangerous chemicals that can be just as harmful to your body’s largest organ as the chemicals you ingest. If you’ve gone out of your way to clean up your diet, it is time to take the next step and clean up the rest of your life!
If you have kids, this is especially important as they are even more susceptible to chemicals in cleaning products, shampoos, lotions, plastics, air fresheners, laundry detergent, etc.
Unlike healthy eating, natural cleaning/ living is an area where it most definitely is CHEAPER to go the natural route. With a few master ingredients, you can keep you house and body clean for practically nothing. At my house, the ingredients I always keep on hand for cleaning are:
- White Vinegar
- Borax
- Washing Soda
- Baking Soda
- Salt
- Lemons
- Liquid Castile Soap
For beauty/personal care, I can make practically everything with:
- Coconut oil
- Baking soda
- Shea butter
- Liquid Castile soap
- Apple cider vinegar
- Essential oils
Not Convinced?
Here are a few basic recipes for homemade cleaners and beauty products that you can easily make:
Natural Cleaning Recipes
Natural Homemade Laundry Detergent
Natural All-Purpose Cleaner Recipe
Natural Oven Cleaning
Natural Homemade Glass Cleaner Recipe
Easy Homemade Scouring Powder Recipe
Floor and Tile Cleaner Recipe
Health and Beauty Recipes
Natural Homemade Substitutes for Conventional Beauty Products
Seven Natural Remedies you Already Have at Home
Seven Natural Beauty Tricks From Your Kitchen
Natural Homemade Baby Wipes-Easy to Make
Make Your Own Natural Deodorant With This Simple Recipe
Natural Homemade Toothpaste- Easy Recipe
UPDATE: Remineralizing Toothpaste Recipe!
Natural Homemade Sunscreen Recipe
Natural Bug Spray Recipes that Work
Health Tonic: Vinegar of the Four Thieves
The Challenge
You are eating healthier, now its time to stop inundating your body with junk from the outside!
I challenge you to hit the bathroom counter, cabinets, under the kitchen sink, etc and get rid of all the chemical filled products that aren’t good for you or your skin! Some examples would be: all purpose cleaners, glass cleaners, disinfecting sprays, conventional deodorants, lotions, toothpastes, soaps, beauty products, etc. Give them to a toxic waste disposal place or, if you aren’t sure you are going to make the switch permanent, put them where you can’t use them for a month and see how you feel then!
What products will you get rid of? What will you replace them with? Share below!
I replaced my beloved Dawn dishsoap..
with seventh generation natural dishsoap
I got rid of all handsoaps with triclosan in them
and replaced with castille soap mixed with water
I got rid of my conventional shampoo and conditioner…
for an all natural version
now, the things I am working on getting rid of:
first my old deodorant, I tried your homemade version and I got a rash from it
I am trying to use just plain cornstarch powder and we’ll see if that works. baking soda plain gave me a rash too
oh, i just thought of something else… i use the diva cup instead of pads or tampons
I started my health journey this June and have already begun to do some of these changes. (Hope this counts). All homemade ingredients are natural 🙂
Liquid Dawn dish soap- Diluted castile soap and water 2:1409- diluted castile soap for granite counters with microfiber cloth disinfecting- homemade all purpose cleaner and disinfectantDeoderant- homemadetoothpaste- homemadesos pads- baking soda and scrub brush or scouring sponge padlaundry detergent- homemade windex- vinegar/water in a spray bottlepledge- homemade in a spray bottle with microfiber clothspray and wash for laundry stains- borax/ washing soda- peroxide combo/ peroxide/ washing soda/ biokleenbleach- boraxbleach toilet cleaner- homemade toilet scrub and homemade scouring powdersoap in shower- castile in spray bottle 409- homemade purgo floor cleanerSoon to make baby wipes *your recipein the process of ordering #2 foam pump bottles to add water and castile soap for bathrooms/kitchen/showerdawn- to cut gooey stickers etc. oil works great!Cascade- costco natural dishwasher detergent/ and soon to use my homemade dish detergent (after much trial and error)Spray for odor- cinnamon leaf essential oil on que tips dropped in garbage cans/ also vinegar and baking soda
ooo, thanks, i was wanting a recipe for dish soap and i was thinking to use castile. so you use 2 parts castile to 1 part water?
glass cleaner- natural glass cleaner
spic and span- all purpose natural cleaner
facewash
conditioner
hair volumizer- for your new recipe for hairspray using lemon and sugar
sunscreen- ordering ingredients to make your homeade version
toothpaste- baking soda
handcream, body creams, and lotions… all now for coconut oil
and dishwasher soap
How do you make your own dishwasher soap?
1 cup baking soda
1 cup borax
1/2 cup salt
1 packet lemon kool aid (unsweetened) {optional}
mix together
i store in an old applesauce container and use just enough to fill the soap thingy. 🙂
Thank you so much! I am new to all of this and eager to try some new recipes!
and my own shampoo and conditioner
Please tell me what your formula is— I would really appreciate that.
there are a ton of non-shampoo recipes, even specifying for hair type. mine has castile soap, jojoba oil, orange essential oil, and as bad as it is, i forgot the other stuff. i looked for the recipe and i can’t find it. but you can good no-poo or non-poo recipes and you can find a lot of stuff!
i have done this challenge for a while and can’t really find anything… but what i have done over the past few months, if it counts:
-toss deodorant
-i used to love 409, not sure why, but i did… and no more!
-i use baking soda for the toilets, sinks and shower
-i make my own laundry soap
-and get goat’s milk soap from a friend
-vinegar as a rinse aid and fabric softener
-my face scrub is a wonderful mix of brown sugar and olive oil
-and oil cleansing method of castor oil and olive oil with some yummy scent in it
-water bottle with lavender for the “smell good stuff” that helps my son go to bed
-hair spray with water, salt and orange in it… and soon to be hair gel with chia seeds
i did toss out the bath and body works lotion my little princess came home with from a friend’s house… she won’t ever know! and the coconut oil is so much better