ZERO WASTE CLEANING PRODUCTS - Zero Waste Uppsala

ZERO WASTE
 CLEANING
 PRODUCTS

Let us remember the Rs:

 • Refuse: you no longer have to buy
   detergents in plastic bottles that can
   cause allergies and harm the
   environment (often very aggressive)
 • Reduce: you reduce the quantity of
   products you use at home (you don't
   need any specialized products)
 • Reuse: you can reuse the bottle and
   sprayer over and over again
 • Recycle: e.g. vinegar glass bottle
 • Repurpose: you can alter whatever you
   are no longer using and use it for a
   more practical reason! E.g. citrus peels
   optimal to contrast strong smells

Usual cleaning products are:

• Often filled with TOXIC chemicals
    • could cause asthma, allergies, skin irritation and
    • Risk factor for antibiotic resistant-bacteria

• Covered in plastic packaging
• Really polluting to our environment
    • ending up in the oceans causing harm to fish and
      wild life

CHEAP AND VERSATILE INGREDIENTS

                                                         • Baking soda / bicarbonate soda
                                                         • Castile soap
                                                         • White vinegar
                                                                Tip Get rid of the smell by
                                                                infusing essential oils or
                                                                orange/lemon peels
                                                         • Lemon juice
                                                         • Olive oil
Perfect sanitary and healthy cleaner using just simple
ingredients won’t harm you or the environment !!!
                                                         • Essential oils
                                                         • Salt

HOME-MADE
  Recipes

DISH SOAP
• 15 g palm oil free castile bar soap
OR you can use up whatever bar soap you still have at
home, but in that case please note that the dish soap might
not be free from harmful substances anymore!
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 300ml water
• 3 drops of your favourite essential oil (optional)
• 1 soap dispenser
• a jar for the surplus

Bring water to boil. Turn off the stove, add the soap
flakes. Stir with a spoon until the soap has dissolved. Let
cool. Add baking soda when the mixture is still warm,
but not hot. Shake before you transfer it into a soap
dispenser. Shake from time to time.
Your hands will thank you overtime!!

ALL purpose cleaner

• Equal parts vinegar
          Tip: infuse orange peels for a
          week to get rid of the vinegary
          smell)
• Equal parts water
• 10 drops e.o.
• A spray bottle
Used for surfaces: Everything: sink,
fridge, oven, etc
          Note: It smells a bit like vinegar
          but it dissappears after a little

Laundry powder
 • 40 g castile soap
 • 60g of baking soda
 • 60g of washing soda

Grate the castle bar soap into soap flakes.
Mix to combine all the ingredients. Blend in
blender if you prefer it completely pulverized.

Use 1 TBSP for load!

Fabric softener?

Fabric softener
         =
ALL purpose cleaner

 • Equal parts vinegar
           Tip: infuse orange
           peels for a week to
           get rid of the
           vinegary smell
 • Equal parts water
 • 10 drops e.o.

Other tips?

Toilet cleaner
                                             Mould and mildew
• White vinegar                              • Fill a spray bottle with white vinegar +
                                               e.o.
• Bicarbonate soda
                                             • Spritz area, leave it for 30 min
• E.o.
                                             • Scrub it off
Window and mirror cleaner
• 1 part vinegar                             Microwave
• 4 parts water                              • White vinegar
• E.o.                                       • Juice of lemon in a cup
Spray (not on a sunny day)
                                             Put it in microwave for 2 min
Air freshner                                 Leave door closed for 1 min
• Old spray bottle
                                             Open door, and clean with a cotton cloth
• Filled with water
                                             Everything should come out very easily
• E.o. (lavendar)
Spritz air or furniture, pillow before bed

Furniture polish                               Oven cleaner
• ¼ white vinegar                              • ¼ cup of bicarbonate of soda
• ¾ olive oil                                  • 1 tsp salt+ water (add the salt and water bit by bit to
                                                 get the right consistency)
• Juice of half lemon
                                               Cover and let over night
• E.o.
                                               Scrub everything off in the morning
You can store it in a bottle
Put a little bit on a cloth and polish ready
                                               Chopping board
                                               Rub half of a lemon on it
Floor cleaner
                                               If stubborn: squeeze and leave, then wipe
• ¼ cup of white vinegar
• Hot water
                                               Drain cleaner
• A squizze of castile soap
                                               • Bicarbonate of soda
                                               • White vinegar
Carpet deodorizer
                                               After 10-15 min: run hot water (only do it if you have
• Fill up a jar with bicarbonate of soda       metal pipes, the plastic ones could melt)
• 10 drops e.o
Shake                                          Clean white sneakers
Pour of the carpet                             • Baking soda
Leave it for 30 min                            • Cleaned tooth brush
Vacuum                                         • Laundry detergent

Tips you asked for:
Dish washer detergent

•   1 cup washing soda
•   1 cup baking soda
•   1 cup citric acid
•   3/4 cup table salt

Mix well to combine and that’s literally it!
Where I can buy my ingredients?

• Groceries (IKA, in Oriental and North African based
  shops, other local groceries)
• Online: AROMAZONE

Thank you!!