There are quite a number of reputed wood floor cleaners available in your nearest departmental store, home decor store and on the internet. However, recipe for homemade wood floor cleaners are be easy to use, cost saving, and just suitable for typical stains. It is important to ensure that the patina or glaze of your wood floor is not disturbed by application of homemade cleaners. Therefore, it is always better to use mild ones that have least detrimental effects on wood texture.
It is also important to ensure that the homemade cleaner smells fresh and clean, and shows the desired result so that you would love to use it repeatedly instead of costly branded products. A cup of vinegar mixed with water or quarter cup borax added to a gallon of water with baby shampoo or liquid soap could be a great cleaner to remove sticky and stubborn stain. This smells great after a rinsing and restores the natural floor color.
Hardwood floors are simple to clean as these are automatically treated to be stain resistant. However, pet stains on hardwood floors are difficult to remove. A finishing polish or lacquer cleans and cover scratches. A teaspoon of vinegar, one teaspoon of vegetable oil mixed with one quart of water could be a useful cleaner for deep and tough stains. This recipe for wood floor cleaner will clean the pet stains easily. You need to mop the floor and rub the stain gently to clean such stains and then clean the floor with sufficient water.
Vegetable soap or oil soaps are also good recipes for wood floor cleaner. Use a spray bottle and sprinkle the appropriate solution of wood floor cleaner. Clean it with washrag or swiffer mops that are gentle on the floor.
Readily available Clorox mops could be a good solution to stubborn stains. However, all branded products are expensive. Baby shampoo mixed with water or alcohol (6-8 ounces) mixed with right proportion of water (30-32 ounces) could be an easy recipe for wood floor cleaner. Window cleaner mixed with hot water in appropriate proportion is also a useful recipe for wood cleaner. The economic recipe for wood floor cleaner that serves multifarious purposes could be made by mixing quarter of a dishwashing soap or liquid, a cup of lemon juice, two cups of vinegar to two cups of water.
All these recipes for wood floor cleaners are inexpensive and effective solutions to clean hardwood floors.
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