How To Make Natural Bleach For Your Laundry That Doesn’t Color Or Ruin Your Favorite Fabrics

Chlorine-based bleach is an age-old, inexpensive method used to whiten laundry and remove stains, but is tough on your clothes and adds harmful chemicals to your life and the environment. Luckily there are natural alternatives that are as effective and cheap as bleach and safe to use.

Reasons Why You Should Avoid Bleach And Go Green

Can cause burns and nerve damage.
Excessive exposure to bleach may cause skin, mouth, lung, and eye irritation.
Many home accidents are related to bleach and household products. Most of those bleach accidents involve children and can have fatal consequences.
When bleach is mixed with other products, toxins are formed. Many of those toxins are carcinogens. These chemicals build up in our environment and end up in our water and food supply.
During the bleach production dioxins, a chemical that’s is harmful to people and the environment, are formed

DIY: Natural Bleach For Your Laundry That Doesn’t Color Or Ruin Your Favorite Fabrics

Easy, cheap, and very effective to boost, soften, whiten, and clean your laundry. And it removes bad odors and won’t color or ruin your clothes. Pinky promise.

2 cups 3% hydrogen peroxide food grade (or dilute 35% food grade hydrogen peroxide with distilled water)
2 cups fresh lemon juice or lemon juice concentrate
10 to 30 drops lemon essential oil (or any other oil of your choice)

Add the ingredients to a gallon jug and fill the rest with distilled or filtered water. Shake gently to combine. Store in a dark place, to avoid oxidation of the peroxide.

How To Use This Color and Fabric Safe Bleach Alternative

To soften, brighten, and boost your laundry: add ½ cup to 2 cups homemade bleach in your washing cycle for white loads, and ½ to 1 cup for color loads. For extra softening and odor remover, also add to your rinse cycle.
To whiten your whites: Add your whites to the washer with several cups of the homemade bleach and hot water. Mix the bleach and whites and let soak until the water has cooled. Add laundry soap and run as normal. For extra whitening and softening, add another cup of homemade bleach to the rinse cycle.

Other Uses

Multi-purpose cleaner: Pour mixture into a spray bottle and use as a normal cleaner for table tops, refrigerator shelves, mirrors, windows, chrome, etc. Or add it to your water to clean floors.
Tub, tile, and grout cleaner: Make a paste with the alternative bleach and baking soda and scrub your tub or tiles with it. Let sit before washing off.
Toilet Cleaner: add ¼ of a gallon to your toilet tank, let sit for 10 minutes and flush. Add another ¼ of the gallon the bowl and add ¼ cup of baking soda. Swish around with the toilet brush, let sit for another 10-15 minutes, flush and clean with toilet brush.

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