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I’ve been making my own cleaning products for years. When I first started, there weren’t any recipes or tutorials available online and there was a lot of trial and error… mostly error.
Natural Home Products that Work
Did you know, for instance, that vinegar and liquid castile soap together make a nasty slimy mess? Or that vinegar is better for making pickles than for cleaning many surfaces?
I didn’t, but I definitely found out the hard way!
Now, there are dozens of pre-made “green” cleaners available. Some are really good, but all of them are much more expensive than making your own.
Over the years, I’ve saved hundreds of dollars (and avoided putting dozens of plastic bottles in landfills) by making my own cleaners and you can too!
I found a company that shares my passion for natural cleaning products (pre-made and homemade) and you can get most of my natural cleaning supplies for free this week:
Grove Collaborative
One of the questions I get most often when I post DIY cleaning recipes is:
Where did you get that awesome spray bottle?
and I didn’t really have a reliable source for them. I’d ordered some online before but they hadn’t always been great quality and I refused to recommend a bottle that would stop working a few weeks after purchase.
When Grove Collaborative offered to create a limited edition Wellness Mama + Grove glass spray bottle (made in the USA) for homemade cleaners and print my cleaning recipe right on the back and send it to you for free, I jumped at the chance!
What is Grove Collaborative?
Great question. They used to be called ePantry and I had heard of them but never tried them until recently. Now, I order many of our household staples from them, including:
- Toilet paper
- My favorite razor ever
- Glass spray bottles
- Washing soda
- Bon Ami
- Wool dryer balls
- Laundry soap
The best part… this week, you can get several of my favorite things for free:
Never tried Grove Collaborative? You get all of this:
- 16-ounce Glass Spray Bottle
- Metal Cleaning Caddy
- Orange Essential Oil
- Bon Ami Cleaning Powder
- 60-day free VIP trial and free shipping
That is a value of over $40 at completely no cost when you try $20 of their products. In fact, when I ordered, I got $70 worth of products I already love and use for under $25 with the discounts and free products including:
- Glass spray bottle
- e-Cloth microfiber
- Orange essential oil
- Liquid castile soap
- Apple cider vinegar
- Dish Soap
- Kitchen sponges
- Toothbrush
- Baking soda
- Bon Ami
Click here to lock in your free products and savings!
Already a Grove Member?
If you are already a Grove customer, they’ll add a pack of walnut scrubber sponges to your next order at on cost. Just click here.
How it Works
- Go to Grove Collaborative by clicking here.
- Take a simple 4-question quiz to help them find your favorite products.
- They will create a custom cart of products for you to try and add the spray bottle, microfiber cloth and essential oil for free. It will also apply free shipping.
- Change or delete any products you don’t want (just keep at least $20 in there to get the free stuff!)
- Check out, save tons of money and free stuff shows up at your house!
- If you join their VIP program, you always get free shipping + 5 free gifts each year!
The things I ordered were substantially less expensive than the same things at our local store and I now get natural toilet paper and recycled razors (two things I ALWAYS forget at the store) delivered automatically.
Reasons I Like Grove Collaborative:
- Flexible delivery schedules — automatically receive monthly shipments or edit delivery dates to get products exactly when you need them
- Custom baskets — They make suggestions, but you can always make changes or add/remove products
- No surprises — you’ll get two reminder e-mails (one week and one day before a scheduled shipment) so you can make any necessary changes
- Great customer service — They have an entire Community Happiness team!
- Free Stuff Through Monday– Until Monday, you can get some of my favorite things for free! (Unfortunately, they can’t ship to Alaska, Hawaii or Canada).
With all the money you’ll save, grab some good coffee or herbal tea and spend 30 seconds making this simple homemade cleaner.
Important Disclaimer: I worked with Grove to create this spray bottle and free offer for you, but it is not a sponsored post. If you choose to grab these free products, I do receive an affiliate commission, which helps me keep the blog up and running. You receive discounted and free products and my thanks for supporting my website! See my full disclaimer here.
Ever tried Grove? What are you waiting for?
How to Make Apple Cider Vinegar at Home
Thanks so much!! What a fantastic offer! I’ve already received mine, but my bottle wasn’t a WM logo and no recipe. Can you share it please!! THX! 🙂
All Purpose Cleaner Ingredients
1 tsp borax
1/2 tsp washing soda
1 tsp liquid castille soap
Essential oils of choice- I use 4 drops lemon, 4 drops lavender and 10 drops orange
Glass spray bottle for storage
All-Purpose Cleaner Instructions
Place borax, washing soda and soap in a spray bottle (preferably glass).
Add 2 cups of warm water. Distilled is best, but any water that has been boiled will work. Cover bottle and shake well. Use as needed. I use as bathroom cleaner, floor pre-treater, kitchen cleaner and on toys to disinfect.
I too live out of the country – Mexico- and find it VERY hard to find these sort of products….arrrgh!
No luck with this web site. It is not set up for screen readers so after trying to choose 3 products, I wound up with $96 worth of items I did not order, could not find a way to remove them nor could I find a check out button. I wrote to Christina but did not receive a reply and today is the last day for the promotion. It is not a very user friendly site.
What device are you on? I haven’t ever had trouble with it…
I’ve been having trouble also. At first I couldn’t “cancel” a product out of my list but finally found that there was an X above each product to do just that. Now today, I get a notice that the sale ends at midnight so I chose what I thought was about $20.00 items. But when I went to check, I couldn’t find them—the shopping cart wouldn’t open. Then I found them. They had been added to the order that was supposed to ship in Sept—AND the 3 free gifts mentioned in the reminder was NOT listed. So I’m still wondering. If I want to make a quick send now order, how do I do it? Confusing.
Same thing happened to me! I’m so disappointed!!!
I am not impressed by this company….there prices on Dr. Bronners products are higher than our grocery store’s.?
I read on their site that they price match. Might want to look into that if you like the idea of it coming through the mail.
I’m glad you found a new company for cleaning products after the Branch Basics fiasco. I’m going to pass on anything pre-made due to that experience. By the way, are you planning to write a follow-up post like you said you would after someone called you out for stealth deleting the BB recs six months ago?
I am going to write a follow up, but I didn’t stealth delete their links, just removed them because they were no longer available.
Thanks for sharing this Katie! They have great prices on some hard to find locally items. I had some trouble processing the payment (who would have thought it wouldn’t work if you used a +4 zip code?) and talked to Christina at customer service. Right now, they are offering a free 60 trial for the VIP program and if you decide to keep it, they will bill you just $19.99 for the remainder of the first year. Just thought I’d pass that on. I didn’t see the offer on the website, so, if anyone else wants this offer, they may have to call customer service.
I tried them. But according to the EWG, the companies they use are not that great.vsl while they may be a little better than the original brand name cleaning companies, they’re still not what one would expect for natural! I returned everything and canceled account with them. I was rather disappointed….
I placed an order with Grove Collaborative to try the products you suggested. When trying to find further information on preventing automatic shipments, I found only comments from previous customers claiming their money was taken without authorization. If you have any information on how to cancel this subscription, please share it. I’m very nervous about having used my debit card to place this order and am worried that my account has been compromised. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Just delete all items in your cart and it won’t ship again…
I had the same experience! This felt very sneaky and dishonest – I had no idea I was signing up for monthly subscriptions, and I had to take out extra time to sort things out over the phone because my emails were not being responded to. The staff didn’t really seem to care much, they just repeated their policy. I won’t do business with them again if I have to remember to to UNDO an order every time I make it. Too bad.
I joined Grove last year and I love it! I’m a big fan of 7th Generation products and they have everything I need. You can’t find most of these items in any stores in my area. And best of all, it’s delivered right to your doorstep. Also, they keep everything that you have ordered and you decide whether you want them included in your monthly shipment or not. I like the fact that you can change the delivery to the following month if you don’t need anything at the time. The annual fee is not so bad either. Join up, you will be glad you did?
This looks like an amazing company with extremely great prices. How long does this offer last?
Maybe some of these companies could extend their offers to Canada?
Yes I agree .I was excited to order until I found they don’t deal across our border. Oh well their loss.