Natural Wood Polish
I’ve talked before about how the harsh commercial cleaners we use could actually be effecting our hormones. But there really is no reason to go run out and buy up all of the expensive “green” cleaners either. Using normal household kitchen products not only works just as well, it’s much, much cheaper.
Here’s what we use for a wood polish/dusting spray:
Now I don’t know how long this would last sitting around in the cupboard so I tend to mix only what I need, when I need it.
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Donielle is an amateur herbalist and natural momma to two littles (with another babe in heaven) after struggling with infertility. She has a passion for nourishing nutrition, natural living, and spreading the word on how food truly affects our health. Her blog Naturally Knocked Up focuses on fertility and reproductive health and her book on natural fertility will be available in June 2012. She also runs a local blog (Grand Rapids Natural Living) and is active the local community in order to provide the area with resources and information for natural families.
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I use the same recipe you use. Sometimes there is less lemon juice (I use the juice from one lemon), sometimes more. The best thing is that it really doesn’t matter. It has worked well for me and I love the scent!
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I use it on our unfinished kitchen cabinets. The lemon juice is the cleaning agent, so if you don’t need cleaning and just want shine you could just oil the wood. I typically use a more 1/1 ratio when I use it.
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My husband found this recipe elsewhere on the ‘net, and polished all our bedroom furniture. It worked amazingly well!!
We’re phasing out all our commercial cleansing products, and are converting to natural/homemade products and Norwex cleaning cloths, etc.
It’s fantastic!
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