We just finished potty training one kiddo. Now the baby has diaper rash that needs airing out. These circumstances call for some major clean up duty. Diaper free kiddos ALWAYS equal some sort of mess!
I know, I know we brag on Young Livings concentrated cleaner all the time. It's only because it is so.freaking.awesome. I no longer clean with any other product in my entire house. Bathrooms? Thieves cleaner. Kitchen? Thieves cleaner. Dishes? Thieves cleaner. Dusting? Thieves cleaner. So, naturally, when it comes to my floor, I use my Thieves cleaner there too! (I only wish I had had a bottle of this when we potty trained the puppy!)
We have about five different ways to clean our floors. I have all the floor types too: carpet, tile, and pretend wood floors. So here are different ways I use it to clean all our different floors.
Carpet:
Carpet Cleaner: place 2 cap fulls of thieves cleaner per gallon of water in the reservoir and clean carpets!
Carpet Freshener: fill mason jar with baking soda, add a few drops of thieves cleaner (or any essential oil, I love doing cinnamon around the holidays to make my house smell festive! Or, cool tip, most carpet loving insects hate tea tree!). Cut a circle of paper the size of the mason jar lid, then poke holes in paper to make a homemade sprinkle jar! Sprinkle mixture around carpets, let sit over night or at least 2 hours, then vacuum!
Spot Cleaner: mix one cap of cleaner to two cups of warm water. Use sponge or rough towel to dip in mixture and then scrub spot on carpet.
Tile:
Electric Floor Cleaner: I have a plug in floor scrubber that works on hard wood, fake wood, and tile. I use one cap of the Thieves cleaner in the water tank and fill the rest of the way with water.
Mopping: when the tile gets super dirty and has stuff stuck in the grout cracks that the electric cleaner can't get to, I use a heavy duty deck brush and scrub the tiles. I mix two caps of Thieves cleaner to every gallon, dip the deck brush in and scrub the floor. After I am done I use a towel to mop up excess water...but the glory of Thieves cleaner is, you don't have to rinse like you do with soap!
Hardwood/Fake Wood:
Electric Floor Cleaner: what I love most about this machine is I can move from tile to the wood floors without stopping! I use the same ratio. Also, I found it at a garage sale for a quarter of the regular price! Score!
Spray Bottle and Swiffer: this is my favorite method to clean the wood floors. I put one cap of Thieves cleaner in a spray bottle, top off with warm water, and spray the floor as I clean with my swiffer mop (Ok, ok the kids usually spray the floor while I follow them around hurriedly, trying to keep pace!). I put towels or old worn out cloth diapers on my swiffer head instead of buying the throw-away kind (plus ewww they put all sorts of nasty smelling stuff in those wet wipes!). I use to have a swiffer like mop that had a reservoir attached that you could refill. The kiddos played too hard with it one day and it's long gone now! But you could use Thieves cleaner in them as well, just stick to the same ratio of one cap of cleaner to two quarts of water.
Happy oiling, Mandy
