Make Homemade All Purpose Cleaner With Bleach For Pennies

Let's face it you need bleach sometimes to really kill germs and this all purpose cleaner with bleach is so easy to make and costs practically nothing to make. It also is the secret to keeping my 60 year old tile and grout white in my kitchen.
1. Take an old spray bottle but make sure you have rinsed thoroughly because you never want to mix bleach with anything that has ammonia in it.


2. Take a bar of Zote or Fels Naptha (Zote is often three for a dollar at the dollar stores) and let sit in two cups of hot water until water is nice and milky. Pour that into the bottle.


3. Pour a half cup of bleach into spray bottle.


4. Fill the rest of the bottle with hot water and mix thoroughly.


This is a perfect cleaning spray for bathrooms, shower mold, kitchen tile and sinks.


I like to spray on my white sink and let sit to whiten the sink.
I have the original sixty year old tile in my vintage kitchen and this spray helps keep my tile grout nice and white.
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  • Dawn Maddock Dawn Maddock on Feb 20, 2017
    I love this idea however I like in Uk and cannot get zote bars could you give me any idea of an equivalent please.
  • Kay61009778 Kay61009778 on Mar 28, 2022

    Hello! Thanks for providing this solution recommendation.

    Couple of questions:


    1 What size spray bottle?


    2 Is the bar used only enough to make the water milky and then you remove the bar or is the entire bar in be diluted???

    3. What size bar are you referring to in your instructions? They do come in different sizes.


    These details are important ;)

    Thanks!


  • Maria Maria on Feb 04, 2024

    Do you dissolve the whole bar of soap or wait till the water is milky looking and take out the soap

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  • Linda Linda on Dec 13, 2015
    Thank you for the information. I'll try Freshco and see what they have available.
  • Pat2726688 Pat2726688 on Jul 14, 2016
    thats enough bleach to get the black out of a black hole. i don't see how this wouldn't work.
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