I kinda freaked out a little at the effectiveness of this one.īut, alas, it was still a bit difficult to get the hairspray off, and although there were no streaks, I was pretty sure we could do one better – by combining all the ideas here into one gargantuan, massively effective glass cleaner. It’s absolutely, without a doubt the secret ingredient to clean, shiny, amazing mirrors (and windows, I’m sure). Homemade Glass Cleaner 3: Vinegar, Water, Cornstarch Would your friends lick your mirror after this? Probably, but you have weird friends. You know, like you want your glass cleaner to be. It’ll do in a pinch, and the alcohol does give it more oomph than just using vinegar. Initially I thought it was comparable to store-bought glass cleaners – until I saw the results from the next two recipes. I had to use a bit of elbow grease to get the hairspray droplets off the mirror, and it left behind a few streaks. This was the most widely spread recipe I found online. Homemade Glass Cleaner 2: Vinegar, Alcohol, Water Mirror-licking aside, this probably isn’t going to satisfy you like your old glass cleaner does. You just seem like those sorts of people. I assume you all have friends who like to lick mirrors. Just don’t expect anyone to want to lick your mirrors after using it.
Judgment: If you’re out of glass cleaner and don’t have any of the ingredients for the ones below, use vinegar. Also, there were more streaks with this formulation. It wiped off the toothpaste like a charm, but the hairspray pretty much stayed put. I put straight white vinegar on the first section of mirror, and it worked surprisingly well, though it wasn’t fantastic. Again, alert the sciency awards people (and let them know I like white chocolate). So instead of a true-life picture, I’m giving you my artist’s rendering of what each section of the mirror looked like. They were all relatively successful, but one was a stand-out winner. It was completely impossible to tell, via pictures, how well each formulation worked. My initial plan was to show the results of the sectioned off pieces of mirror so you could see which recipe worked the best. Someone alert the people who give out the sciency awards for masterpieces. It was a scientifically controlled masterpiece. Then, I divided up sections with fancy blue painter’s tape. To prepare for the epic showdown, I splattered toothpaste all over my bathroom mirror, and then topped it off with a few healthy spritzes of Fiance’s icky hairspray.
#Recipe for vinegar window cleaner plus#
Really, these are just recipes that use almost the same ingredients – plus or minus a few. So, here we have: Battle for the Title of Best Homemade Glass Cleaner! All I could get my camera to capture of the “testing mirror” before testing. And then I came up with an award-winning fourth. In all the searching I did for glass cleaners, I found three options I wanted to try. Remember how running out of store-bought things works when you want the impetus to try making something at home? In any case, I haven’t had the courage to venture back into the realm of homemade glass cleaners until this moment – when I happen to be out of my 7th Generation. Tip time: For extra-shiny, streak-free mirrors, do a final wipe with (black and white) newspaper. YOU clean it up”) and things got back to normal. It looked like you were brushing your teeth in an old Bela Lugosi film.įinally, when I got tired of pretending I was a vampire, I scrubbed it down with some old dry newspaper (paper towels were like, “Um, no.
It was disastrous.Ī black film clung to my bathroom mirror for weeks. Last year, I tried to make my own glass cleaner with black tea and vinegar.
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