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Homemade Softscrub Cleaner Recipe
Here’s a quick and easy recipe for a great soap scum buster on the tub surround or a great cleaner for around the kitchen and bathroom.
Homemade Softscrub
1/2 cup baking soda
1/2 cup liquid dish detergent
1/8 cup – 1/4 cup vinegar
- Mix the baking soda and dish detergent first, then add the vinegar. Adjust the baking soda or vinegar amounts until you have the consistency you like working with.
Tips:
- Just use whatever’s on sale or a generic brand of dish detergent and you’ve got yourself some super cheap, yet very effective, homemade softscrub!
- Use the amount of vinegar that gives you the consistency of softscrub that you prefer. Vinegar’s a great grime buster–so don’t be shy with it.
- If you just want to do some spot cleaning and don’t need a large amount of softscrub, give the spot a light squirt of dish detergent, sprinkle a generous amount of baking soda on top and scrub. You won’t need to bother with the vinegar for small spots like this.
- Try heating the vinegar in the microwave first before mixing it in with the other ingredients. You don’t want it super hot, but a warm temperature that’s comfortable to work with.
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Found the dish detergent to make this recipe too soapy… I was hesitant to use it to clean my child’s bathtub for fear of it making the tub slippery. I would just leave the detergent out.
I wouldn’t leave the soap out entirely, but add just a little at a time until it has a little foaming power, but isn’t hard to rinse off.
Vinegar really does work good on soap scum. I it to clean my vinyl shower curtain by throwing it in the wash with a couple of towels, a cup of vinegar, and some detergeant. It comes out looking like new!
I tried this cleaner on my shower, which had soap scum and hard water build up. It worked great!! I did find it too soapy, it seemed to take forever to rinse all of the bubbles away. Next time I make it I’m going to try and decrease the soap by half and perhaps add a bit more vinegar.
This recipe does not make chemical sense. Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, a mild alkaline substance. Vinegar is 5% acetic acid, obviously a mild acid. Mixing the two together will form a neutralization reaction. You will get a foaming of carbon dioxide, which has no real cleaning power but the advertising people make it sound good. Perhaps this formula works, but I would guess substituting another liquid for vinegar such as water might work just as well.