DIY All Your Toiletries and Cleaners with SIX Ingredients

Inside You’ll Find: Homemade DIY Toiletry and Cleaning Recipes with VERY FEW ingredients!

This post may give you the wrong impression of me. 

I’m no Ma Ingalls, toughing it out on the prairie and grinding my own wheat!

(Though I DO have the simplest bread recipe ever for you to try! Seriously, it takes a couple minutes, four ingredients and is ready in under an hour!)

I don’t have ample time on my hands. Far from it. 

I’m running a three ring circus over here and I need to keep things simple and cheap! But I also want to reduce the nasty chemicals in our lives. The following recipes for household cleaners and toiletries are at their most simple! I wanted to give you a list of six ingredients that can make just about everything you need! 

(I will admit, I cheated twice. The glass cleaner has cornstarch, and the sunscreen needs zinc oxide and beeswax, but I though I’d include them anyway if you’re looking for solutions for those needs!)

Are you ready to learn what six ingredients I use to make practically everything?

Drum roll please….

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Six Ingredients to Make Practically All Your Household Goods

Baking Soda

Vinegar

Castile Liquid Soap ( I get a big one, but there are certainly smaller more affordable options available!)

Rubbing Alcohol

Coconut Oil

Essential Oils (See below!)

 

A note on essential oils: If you’re just getting started with oils, look through these recipes and see which ones you want to make. Like, if you want to do the toothpaste, I suggest a minty oil! If you’re making handsoap, an antibacterial blend like this one would be smart!

If you can only get one, I think Lemon Oil will cover the most bases. It’s got a lot of good antibac qualities, cleans like a dream and smells heavenly! If you’ve got the money, get the antibac blend, lemon, Lavender Oil, and Peppermint Oil. You’ll be able to make pretty much everything you want with those, plus some great smelling room spray! 

Curious about my thoughts on why I don’t use the big name brands of essential oils and how to know if it’s a quality product? Here’s why I don’t buy MLM essential oils. 

Toiletries

Hand Soap

Castile Soap, Water, Essential Oils, Foaming Dispenser (See the full foaming hand soap recipe HERE!)

Hand Sanitizer

Rubbing Alcohol, Aloe Vera (or Water if you have a spray bottle), Essential Oils (See the DIY Hand Sanitizer Recipe HERE!)

Shampoo

Baking Soda and Castile Soap (Learn how to turn this into a DIY shampoo!)

Conditioner

Vinegar (See how I use household ingredients to wash my hair!)

Deodorant

Coconut Oil, Baking Soda, Essential Oils (Bonus if you have Arrowroot Starch) (Discover the simple homemade deodorant recipe HERE!)

Toothpaste

Coconut Oil, Baking Soda and Peppermint Oil (Bonus if you have Stevia) (Get the Homemade Toothpaste Recipe HERE!)

Moisturizer, Shaving Cream, Make-Up Remover

Coconut Oil (Self Explanatory!) 

Bug Spray

Water, Rubbing Alcohol, Essential Oils (Read the Bug Spray Recipe HERE!)

Bug Bite Relief

Lavender Oil

Sunscreen

Coconut Oil, Essential Oils, Beeswax, Zinc Oxide (Learn the Homemade Sunscreen Recipe HERE!)

Sunburn Relief

Vinegar, Lavender Oil

Burn Relief

Lavender Oil (Can be used straight on skin!)

Headache Relief

Peppermint Oil (Dilute with Coconut Oil and Rub on the Painful Spots. Don’t Get in Eyes!)

Nausea Relief

Peppermint Oil (Give it a sniff! Or dilute with coconut oil and rub on stomach!)

Household

All Purpose Cleaner

Vinegar, Citrus Peels, Essential Oils (Get the All Purpose Cleaner Recipe HERE!)

Glass Cleaner

Vinegar, Cornstarch, Warm Water (Get the Glass Cleaner HERE!)

Floor Cleaner

Scrubbing Cleaner (Sinks, Pots, Tubs etc)

Baking Soda (Learn how to use Baking Soda to Get Up the Tough Stuff HERE!)