Powerful Natural Sanitisers for Your Home

Unfortunately, finding regular cleaning products in shops isn’t easy anymore. The global Coronavirus pandemic has made people stockpile on many essential and not so essential goods. Superstore and local shops are struggling to fulfill the demand for certain products and one of them being cleaning solutions and sanitisers. We already spoke to you about the importance of having your home regularly sanitised during the outbreak. But what do you do if you can’t buy the products you need? Today, we’ll share with you some powerful natural sanitisers you most likely have at home or can make yourself.

White Vinegar

White vinegar has great antibacterial and disinfectant effects. It can be used on a variety of surfaces and in addition to sanitising your home, it also helps removing some stubborn stains and the every nasty limescale. Perfect to use in the bathroom and kitchen.

Apple Cider Vinegar

Apple Cider Vinegar is highly acidic and kills bacteria and germs, as well as cleans burnt-on, greasy stains and limescale. It is ideal for cleaning your oven, toilet, shower head and bathtub or shower cabin. It’s a good idea to use it when you are sanitising your bins as well.

Vodka or Clear Alcohol

Alcohol is probably the most powerful natural sanitiser. That’s due to the high percentage of spirit. Some people even use it to disinfect and dress wounds. That’s a clear indication for the efficiency of alcohol for sanitising your home during a viral pandemic. That being said, you need to be careful what surfaces you use the alcohol on as it may damage some wood or plastic.

Hydrogen Peroxide

Sounds like a complicated chemical, but it really is a powerful natural sanitiser. It is proven to kill 99% of germs and bacteria, as well as remove mould from walls. This is important because a mouldy environment can have a significantly negative impact on people with respiratory conditions and potentially be deadly if they also contract the Coronavirus.

Steam

Using steam to sanitise your home is a brilliant method. It imposes no health risks and even helps people with allergies and respiratory conditions breath more easily. Steam cleaning also promotes better sleep at night because it changes the structure of the air and improves its quality. Steam cleaners remove stains from hard surfaces, fabric and glass. If you are treating your carpet with steam make sure you are following the manufacturers guidelines to avoid any damage.

Essential Oils

You may have thought that essential oils only smell good, but actually they have great sanitising properties. You can add them to vodka or soap and water solutions to increase the cleaning and disinfecting power. The nice smell is just a bonus value of using natural sanitisers.

Not only these household products are effective in sanitising and protecting your home from bacteria and viruses, but they are also kind to the environment. Perhaps, even after the current crisis is over you will choose not to go back to the mainstream cleaning products on the store shelves.

Bredon Hill Cleaning Services works with eco-friendly products because we recognise the need to protect the planet and more vulnerable people, who can’t afford to be exposed to harmful chemicals.