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Homemade Window Cleaner Recipes & Tips
Recipe #1
2 cups rubbing alcohol (70 percent isopropyl)
1/2 cup ammonia
1 tsp dish detergent (liquid)
top with water until you have 1 gallon of window cleaner
Recipe #2
2 cups water
3 TBS vinegar
1/2 tsp dish detergent (liquid)
Recipe #3
1 gallon water
1/4 cup vinegar
1 tsp dish detergent (liquid)
Recipe #4
1 gallon water
1/4 cup vinegar
2 TBS lemon juice
squirt dish detergent (liquid)
Recipe #5
1/2 cup white vinegar
1 gallon warm water
Recipe #6
2 TBSP cornstarch
1/2 cup household ammonia
1/2 cup white vinegar
1 gallon warm water
- Mix the ingredients in a bucket, make sure cornstarch is thoroughly dissolved before using.
From Homekeeping – A Natural Shine To Cleaning (Recipes):
Windows & Mirrors: Store these solutions in spray bottles.
- One part vinegar added to four parts water
- One cup cold strong black tea with 3 TBS of vinegar
Window Cleaning Tips
- Spray windows with preferred cleaner solution then wipe clean with crumpled newspapers. The newspaper helps prevent streaks.
- Avoid cleaning windows and glass when the sun is hot and shining on the window–glass will dry too fast and there will be streaks.
- Also wash one side of the window in an up and down direction, on the other side scrub side to side. This will help determine which side of the glass has the streaks that need to be polished out.
*Updated: These tips were previously published on Tipnut and they’ve been combined into this page for better organization and convenience.
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V very old way of cleaning windows is using the above solution with news paper, use a cloth to wash them then dry the windows with scrunched up newspaper, not coloured ink though. It really does work and afterwards you can throw the paper in the recycle bin.
I would skip the recipe with ammonia since that stinks really bad, it is not so good for your health when inhaled and it is a greenhouse gas.
See the wikipedia entry on ammonia.
You can also use 1 gallon of water and like 2 cups of corn starch and mix them up. It doesn’t leave any streaks!
Recipe #1 works great! I have been using a similar recipe for years and it is a great multi purpose cleaner. It works at cutting grease in the kitchen too. I make this up and use it to clean the bathroom, kitchen and windows.
would it be a bad idea to use the one with rubbing alcohol for cleaning eyeglasses? what about vinegar?
Recipe #1 Is amazing it works so much better than the others. Ammonia doesn’t produce greenhouse gases. Johan is wrong
Ammonia is only poisonous when mixed with certain chemicals..bleach. Also the smell of either Ammonia or vinegar dissapates quickly and leaves no odor. Vinegar is a wonderful cleaner around the house…repels ants, cleans garbage disposal, great in laundry…and cheap! Plus, your family will think you’ve canned all day when you clean!
Window cleaner, counter top, etc.
To one gallon of water add:
1 tbls. Joy
2 tbls. PineSol
3 tbls. Amonia
5 drops of blue food coloring, for color
The best window cleaner I ever used.
Our church has a lot of windows and I use this to clean them. It is so cheap to make and it smells so good and this is the best window cleaner I have ever used!!!
My mom has used recipe #1 for years. It works amazingly well. It doesn’t small strongly of ammonia at all.
My family has made and used recipe #1 for some years now. Really a wonderful cleaner to get all that buildup off outside windows! And, preferably we really like to use Dawn as our dish detergent.
Thanks for sharing!
Tamrah
Don’t do windows, but it seems to me a cleaning crew told me once to use equal parts white vinegar, alcohol, and ammonia maybe cut it some with some water.
Doesn’t the dish detergent leave a film that makes the windows get dirty faster??
Never mix vinegar and ammonia… they will not react well and will make toxic fumes…..
Hi Fia, are you thinking vinegar and bleach are a dangerous mix? There are plenty of recipes (both online and in books) that mix vinegar with ammonia.