Cleaning with Vinegar, essential oils AND the best broom/mop by rubbermaid

 I have seen it all over pinterest.  The many uses of vinegar.   For a lot of us, cleaning with vinegar may be a no brainer.  My mom always used apple cider vinegar to clean our wood floors growing up.  Still some of you may be shy because we all know that vinegar has a very pungent smell and you may not like it.  So I am going to share with you a secret that I use.  I put essential oils in my vinegar water to combat that vinegar smell.   Now vinegar itself is an amazing all natural cleaning product, with an almost infinate shelf life.  It is a great deoderizer for smells because the natural enzymes break down the bacterias or enzymes in bad odors.  Seriously click here to read about why vinegar is an all purpose cleaner that can save you a bundle because you do not need to go buy all of the name brands.    Also with our puppy kya, who you got to see in last post, using vinegar on our floors helped potty train her because it destroys the stuff in their urine that makes them want to keep peeing in the same spot. 

But why the essential oils? Well for one thing it leaves my house smelling like the oils and not the vinegar, even after it has dried.  It is fresh and clean!  And secondly essential oils themselves have amazing anti-viral and anti-bacterial properties.  I have used a lot of brands and my choice brand is doTERRA essential oils.  While one bottle alone can be somewhat pricey all you need is on drop.  I know it is crazy but seriously.  Just one drop. And they also have an infinate shelf life.  To save money I signed up for wholesale which of course is great.  They are all natural and totally safe even for your young kids.  Check out more about doterra  here.

On to the post then! 

So I use Kroger brand white vinegar and the essential oils I  used today were cassia and wild orange for a citris spice smell for fall.  Also cassia is a strong antibacterial.  I filled up my sink just dumped in one glug of vinegar and a couple drops ( one will do the trick I just get product happy ) of each oil.

I use a rubbermaid micro fiber mop and broom that are itnerchangable. In my other pics you will see how it works.  I prefer this and the broom head because they pick up dust, crumbs and animal hair better then a normal mop or broom because you are not sweeping sending a lot of the stuff into the air, you just push it  along and it creates friction that makes it all stic to the micro fiber.  And I can take these and throw them in the washer for re-use.  I love it and my house feels much cleaner since I  have used this and ditched the traditional broom and mop.

drop it in, and let is soak

wring it out.  I re-soak an wring out about 3 times when I mop my floor.

attatch and mop.  Do not mind the little microfiber slippers I wear when I mop.  Silly looking but they help clean and do not leave footprints on my floor.  Its like towels for eat foot to gently dry. I picked them up at walmart for 5 bucks, and they ar also machine washable.   So once attatched I just mopped away. 

When I am finished my floor shines and there is literally no dust thanks to this awesome mop and the broom and they are VERY clean.  My house smells great long afterward.  When I get home from work 6 hours afterI have done this it still smells like I  just mopped.  And not like the vinegar, it smells like my essential oils.  Using the vinegar saves me money on your normal brand cleaning products, its safe and it is not just masking odors but breaking them down and getting rid of them. 

For cleaning floors I give vinegar a big A.  Again this was not new to me, using vinegar is a great home cleaner but I like my method better than just straight vinegar because you get a better odor with essential oils. 

And for those of you who are wondering what the broom attatchment looks like on my mop here is a picture of is and how it velcros on.  The blue mop head attatches the same way.  This products alone gets a big A as well.  Esepecially if you have indoor pets that shed, this mop/broom is a MUST have.  I picked mine up at home depoit for around 25.00 bucks.