Cleaning with EO's

We had some family over on the 4th and I decided to clean a bit with some Essential Oils. 

We recently got a new puppy, Zoe  Zoe is 5 months old and was born in the shelter. Her mother was surrendered to the shelter while she was pregnant.  Our big problem is potty training.  She won't poop outside so lately our house has not been smelling too great! We are working on it though, and look at that face- how could you be mad at it?

I found a recipe in one of my doTerra facebook groups.  I altered it a bit-here is what I ended up using.  This covered our whole family and dining rooms.   I did this 4 times to make it more manageable and because I was unsure how much I really needed. This is what I ended up using.  

Here is what you will need :
2 cups baking soda
do Terra Purify Cleansing Blend
do Terra On Guard Protective Blend
1-2 Essential Oils of your preference for scent-I used Eucalyptus and Cedarwood, as I let my hubby pick!


Like I said above, I did this 4 different times because I wasn't sure how much I would end up needing.  Each time I did it, I added the below:

1/2 C baking soda
5 drops Purify (cleansing blend from doTerra)
5 drops OnGuard
10 drops each of Eucalyptus and Cedarwood

I did each oil separetely and used a fork to mix it into the baking soda. I covered the bowl with a paper towel and left it for about 30 minutes and went to work on the toilets (that is below).  I sprinkled it all over the carpets and left it for an hour.  Then vacummed it up.  It was so nice to not have an overpowering smell and to know I wasn't using chemicals!  The smell of poop was completely gone!  (please note this was not used for stains- just an odor deotorizer- I will tackle the stains another day.)
My mom had been watching my son at our house this week and noticed the poop smell was all gone, I was so happy!

Now, onto the toilets!

I use Norwex cleaning cloths.  You need nothing but water for them- but my rep tells me its ok to use EO's with them.  So I made a cleaning solution of 10 drops each of Purify and OnGuard in a 10 ml glass spray bottle- Half filled with distilled water.  I used this and my norwex microcloth to wipe down the bathrooms and the outside of the toilets.  For the inside of the toilet, this is the process I followed.  You can do a search on you tube for different variations of this, but this is what I used:
1/2 c baking soda
10 drops On Guard doTerra Protective Blend
1/2 c white vinegar

Put the baking soda in the toilet, then the 10 drops of OnGuard (you could also use Melaluca or Purify- I just was borrowing Purify from another WA and didn't want to use a lot of hers).  Put the vinegar in and you get a little fizzy reaction (my 4 year old thought that was cool the first time, but after that was like, "ah, seen it" HAHA).  Then take your toilet brush and clean your toilet like normal. After I cleaned the toilet, I let the solution sit in there until I was done with the carpets.  My toilets came out sparkling.  And no harsh chemicals or nasty smells.

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