3 Easy Natural Glass Cleaner Recipes to Try at Home

Here are three natural glass cleaner recipes you can easily make for just pennies at home! They're totally nontoxic, natural, and safe for the whole family.

Top 10 Cleaning and Laundry Recipes

This recipe is part of a 10-part series of natural cleaning and laundry recipes. You can find a list of all of the recipes here. This natural fabric stain remover recipe is also found in my book, Detox Your Home, which you can find on Amazon. It includes more than 80+ recipes, research and lists for natural products you can purchase all to help you go natural in your home!

Why Make Your Own Glass Cleaner at Home?

1 – It's cheap!

You'll save so much money by making it at home. And since glass cleaners are so easy to make, you might as well make it at home.

2 – No Artificial Fragrances

Glass cleaners in the stores, like Windex, have always given me headaches. Why? They contain artificial fragrances.

Artificial Fragrances

I’ve written about the dangers of artificial fragrances many times here on the blog! Artificial fragrances can trigger asthma attacks, worsen allergies, and cause inflammation in the sinuses that can lead to more frequent colds and respiratory infections. Yikes! That’s why I prefer to scent my homemade products with essential oils.

Fake fragrances disperse particles of formaldehyde and phthalates (thy-lates) into the air. Phthalates are small particles of plastic that are used to bind the artificial fragrance molecules together. We then breathe in those tiny particles of plastic, and they get into our nose and lungs – yuck!

Artificial Fragrance is a class of 3,000 different Chemicals

The term “artificial fragrance” stands for more than 3,000 chemicals and companies do not have to disclose which chemicals are included. So there’s no way of knowing if the chemicals in the product are safe for our health or not. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather be safe than sorry.

3 – Because You Don't Wanna Mess with Chlorine and Ammonia

Traditional glass cleaners contain both chlorine and ammonia which we breathe in when cleaning. These chemicals are known respiratory toxins and like fake fragrances, can trigger asthma, allergies and irritate your lungs, eyes, and cause headaches. Not only that, you'll be getting them into your bloodstream through your skin. If you have children, you'll have to worry about your children putting their mouths and hands on the windows and ingesting the chemicals that way!

The Recipes

Vinegar

Vinegar is completely safe and a very effective window and all-purpose cleaner! However, we all know it kinda stinks. So you can make some citrus-infused vinegar (see my tutorial on that here) to lessen the scent, add your choice of lovely-smelling essential oils to it, or do one of the other two recipes I've added here.

Thieves Household Cleaner

I wrote a whole post (see it here) just about this one cleaner! It smells like Christmas (it contains lemon, clove, eucalyptus, rosemary, and cinnamon essential oils) and is both a glass cleaner and all-purpose household cleaner. It's totally safe, biodegradable, and nontoxic as well!

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Get a Waterproof, Vinyl Label on Etsy!

You can purchase the natural glass cleaner recipe label in my Etsy shop. The labels are professionally printed on vinyl, waterproof paper. Having the label on the bottle means you never have to look up the recipe again!

• Get the natural glass cleaner recipe label by itself here
• Or get a set of printable 10 cleaning and laundry recipe labels here

Would You Rather Buy Instead of Make?

Here are some safe and natural products you can purchase on Amazon that have a rating of A on the EWG.org. Click on the links below to purchase on Amazon.

• Better Life Natural Glass Cleaner ($11.78 for 32 oz)
• Aunt Fannie's Glass and Window Cleaner ($8.49 for 16 oz.)
• ECOS Natural Glass Cleaner ($13.16 for 22 oz.)
• Thieves All Purpose Household Cleaner Concentrate ($22 for 24 oz. but it's super concentrated)