Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Add 2-4 tablespoons of borax to an amber glass spray bottle.
- Add hot water.
- Put the cap on the bottle and shake until all the borax is dissolved.
- After the borax and water solution has cooled down, add 10 drops of tea tree essential oil and 10 drops of eucalyptus essential oil.
- Shake to combine.
Notes
- Hot water is preferred over room temperature water to help the borax dissolve fully and quickly.
- The back of my borax box suggests mixing ½ cup of borax with 12oz of water. I have found that ½ cup of borax is just too much for a 16oz glass spray bottle. Most of it will remain clumpy and make spraying difficult. The 20 Mule Team website suggests using “a little less than ¼ cup” of borax with 16oz of warm water. I have found 2-4 tbsp to be a good ratio of borax to water to make an effective bathroom cleaner with no clumps floating around.
- While I usually list essential oils as optional in my homemade cleaning product recipes, I never leave them out in this bathroom cleaner. Tea tree and eucalyptus have too many good cleaning abilities to leave them out of this one!
