Home Chemical Lab

About.com has recipes for cleaning products you can make at home. This list includes oven,window, floor, tub, tile, and furniture cleaners. I've noticed that you can make just about any sort of cleaner there is using vinegar, ammonia, bleach, and baking soda (not all together). This is in comparison to the $5-each bathroom cleaner, oven cleaner, surface shiners, and all other ultra-specific cleaners you can buy at the store.

On the other hand, I've also noticed that dollar stores have a whole aisle of $1 cleaners. So yes, you can make probably a year's worth of cleaning products with just the $6 worth of ingredients above. Or you can buy them all at the dollar store for ten to fifteen bucks a year, and not have to make any effort or have all those bottles of bleach and ammonia sitting around.