Making all-natural house cleaner with lemon

Recipes: 3 Natural Homemade Cleaners for the Entire House

March 31, 2015

By Christina Stanley

Heavy Duty Scrub

(good for porcelain sinks, toilets, tubs and rust stains; do not use on marble or granite)

ingredients to make natural household cleaner with lemon

Ingredients:

1 lemon, cut in half
¾ cup borax

Instructions:

Step 1: Place the borax powder into a shallow container or bowl.

Step 2: Dip the cut side of the lemon into the borax powder.

Step 3: Scrub surface, then rinse.

image: Getty / Russell Sadur

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Christina Stanley-Salerno is a recipe developer, food stylist, photographer and blogger at TakeBackYourTable.com. She has an intense passion for the family meal and as a work-at-home mother of two growing boys, knows first-hand the challenges of trying to get a meal on the table. Before going freelance, she was on-staff at Every Day with Rachael Ray where she had the pleasure of working alongside some of the best in the food business. She is now a full-time work at home mom, writing recipes for everyone from Momtastic to Parents.com. Creating simple, quick and healthy meals is her specialty and her trick to keeping the family meal a reality, even on busy weeknights.
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