| This is another one of those "make at home" type | | | | So, according to my calculations, using the |
| things that I found somewhere on the internet and | | | | homemade recipe would cost you about 24 cents |
| actually tried out. I can give you some actual, real | | | | per use. Using a store bought brand of toilet bowl |
| feedback on its effectiveness and savings. | | | | cleaner would cost about 63 cents. This works out to |
| Just last week, I tried out some homemade toilet | | | | approximately a 62% savings on your toilet bowl |
| bowl cleaner. And believe it or not, it worked out | | | | cleaning. |
| quite well. I found the benefits to be many, the | | | | Now, in terms of dollars saved, is this going to make |
| user-friendliness of it to be wonderful, and the | | | | you a million dollars over the course of a year? |
| savings seem to be there as well also. | | | | Absolutely not. However, below, I listed out all of the |
| This is what I found. The list of ingredients for my | | | | benefits that I came across during the use of this |
| homemade toilet bowl cleaner call for: | | | | homemade stuff. |
| 1 ½ cups of white vinegar | | | | --Ease of use. As opposed to other homemade |
| 1 cup of baking soda | | | | recipes that you actually have to mix up, with this |
| ¼ cup of salt | | | | one, you're just pouring the ingredients into your |
| 5-10 drops of essential oil | | | | bowl, so there is really no preparation time to make |
| Basically, you pour everything in, mix it up a little with | | | | it or storage of it. This was a big plus to me. |
| your toilet bowl brush, and then let it sit for 20 | | | | --Also, now, rather than polluting the environment |
| minutes. Then, go back, scrub down the bowl and | | | | with an empty toilet bowl cleaner container every |
| flush. It's that simple. | | | | month or so, you will now only be throwing away |
| Before I get into the cost breakdown of this, let me | | | | the big gallon jug of white vinegar about once every |
| tell you something. The "amounts" on this recipe | | | | three months. A benefit for the environment. |
| simply seemed to be way too much to for one | | | | --Third, a lot of the commercial toilet bowl cleaners |
| cleaning of your toilet bowl (unless of course, you | | | | (especially the blue ones) can do harm to your toilet |
| have an extremely large or extremely dirty toilet | | | | plumbing and pipes. Obviously, these ingredients are all |
| bowl). Therefore, I eyeballed it pretty much, but I | | | | natural, so you can eliminate that issue as well. |
| basically cut the amounts on this recipe in half. | | | | --And finally, the savings involved. Again, I won't |
| Oh, and the essential oil thing really only seems to be | | | | break the bank with this savings idea, but every |
| for fragrance purposes. It says it serves an | | | | penny helps. |
| antibacterial purpose, but I would imagine that you | | | | Overall, I'd give this recipe an A+. I think the savings |
| could eliminate this as well and still have the same | | | | are minimal, but when you add everything up, it has |
| effect. | | | | many other benefits to be reaped. |