I m not sure this even really counts as a diy it s so simple but you ll seriously wonder why you didn t start making your own refills sooner.
Make your own floor cleaner for swifter.
Here are 13 ways to make your own swiffer pads.
Add 1 cup of lemon juice.
Homemade swiffer cleaning solution recipe.
For the cleaner all you really need is water and white vinegar.
Save money or save the planet.
Combine the ingredients in a large bowl.
Water and vinegar and a couple of drops of dish soap.
While i make it a point to clean and mop my kitchen floors twice weekly i like to use my swiffer for a quick cleaning pick me up around my kitchen.
We make our own with just 3 ingredients.
The cost of commercial floor cleaners is crazy.
Mix 3 1 2 cups warm to hot water with 1 3 4 cups white vinegar.
Or you can dip the swiffer mop head directly into the solution and mop your floor as normal.
You can also combine the ingredients in a bucket but you ll have to dump out any leftovers once you ve finished cleaning the floor.
For how to clean vinyl floors or other types of floors add the ingredients to a plastic or glass spray bottle and shake well.
But i ve got to admit that i m a little tired of spending the money on them.
Water distilled vinegar dish soap.
Not only are they reusable but they re gentle on floors and they smell amazing.
That really is it.
Even bottles of commercial mopping products run anywhere from 4 to 15 depending on the brand.
Buy a microfiber cloth and cut it to size.
Attach it to the swiffer.
Using a swiffer mop for instance runs about 0 32 per wet pad and you have to use two or three of them in even a small kitchen or bathroom.
Measure out 3 cups of vinegar and add it to the bucket.
This will make 42 ounces to fit in a standard 42 4 ounce swiffer wetjet refill bottle.
And while i ve always loved my swiffer for its simplicity i don t love the cleaning solution itself.
Don t worry your floors won t reek of vinegar.
Pour 4 cups of hot water into a bucket or pitcher.
It smells toxic to me and i avoid it like the plague.
Instead of forking over the dough i decided i d make my own instead.
Insert a funnel into an empty swiffer solution bottle and pour in your homemade solution.
I use swiffer sweeper and wet jet but i noted it started leaving floors very tacky so i looked up solution and a lot of people were complaining about it being tacky and a couple thought it caused death of pets after licking floor so i got a refillable cleaner with washable pads now use vinegar water and dishwash liquid and floors stopped being.
How to make your own swiffer pads and solution.