Carol's Hublet on Cheap, Easy Window Cleaner

Got this window cleaning formula from a television show I just happened to switch to. They were giving ways to make cheap and easy cleaning products to use in your home. I already had the white vinegar and baking soda down pat but...not a window cleaner. Well at least one that works really well.

I have used vinegar but for me it is kind of like using ammonia. The smell is just too strong. This formula interested me because although it contained white vinegar, it also contained water and isoproyl alcohol.

I was doing a major bathroom cleaning project.  I don't do it very often, clean that is, so the bathroom was getting pretty toxic.  Cleaning caddy in hand, I ventured in.  The mirror was is a sorry state, toothpaste and mouth wash splashes, smears, crude and even a few spider foot prints.

I had both a commercial window cleaner and my cheap and easy in the caddy. So I did a side by side test.  Cheap and easy on the left, commercial on the right.  Of course the commercial cleaner did a great job and dried quickly with no streaks.  But I was astonished that the cheap and easy did just as good a job in the same amount of time.  Again there were no streaks, the crude was gone and it dried quickly.

This is how to make it. Get a spray bottle marked off in ounces.

• Put in 5 ounces of water-if your water is really hard you may want to used distilled
  
• 4 ounces of white vinegar
• 1 ounce of isopropyl alcohol-I found 98% at the drug store
• 1 micro fiber cleaning cloth-you can get ones made especially for cleaning glass-I love those micro fiber

The secret of this window cleaner is the alcohol. Oils are dissolved by alcohol and it is what makes the cleaner evaporate quickly.

If you are leary of using isopropyl alcohol, I would think that a shot or two of good strong vodka would be a good substitute. Ethanol, the type of alcohol in vodka, is not toxic as is isopropyl. 

Keep your eye out for the next thing that floats up from the Magic Eight Ball that is my brain.  As I remember something worth passing on, I will.