If you have particularly greasy areas you want help eliminating, other citric cleaners like grapefruit or orange essential oils also work wonderfully. Another excellent way to remove scuffs and stains from your wood floors is to use a cleaner made from Castile soap. Castile soap comes from vegetable oil and other natural plant ingredients that leave your floor clean and shiny. Adding a few drops of a citrus-based essential oil will also add to its fragrant appeal.
The best way to use this cleaner is to add a small amount to a spray bottle or leave all the contents in a large bucket. This decision will depend on the amount of floor space you need to clean. Squirt a little of the solution over the area and thoroughly scrub into the wood floors with a cleaning cloth. This recipe is also an excellent homemade wood conditioner that will seal off part of the wood grain, giving you longer-lasting protection for your floors.
If you want to apply a straight polish to your hardwood floors, a great way to do this is by using a small number of oils. A floor with an oil-based finish will require occasional reapplication of oil to keep it protected. Oil is absorbed back into the floor without creating that slippery, skating rink feel.
Mix the two ingredients in a small dish until thoroughly blended. Apply to the floor using a microfiber cloth and circular motions. This recipe is best added to the floor by hand, where you can buff the area dry for a smooth, even finish. A fantastic point about many of these recipes is that some of the ingredients are interchangeable.
Mineral and baby oils are easily replaced with jojoba or tung oil. Even linseed oil is a tremendous natural coating that works on oil-based surfaces. Essential oils can also be added to most recipes to give them a fragrance you love. Instead of lemon essential oil, you may want to try peppermint or eucalyptus. Whatever method you choose, make the recipe your own with these simple techniques. The recipe below is just what you need and will give your wood the perfect balance of cleaner and color protection.
As you may have guessed, this recipe will not make a tremendous amount of cleaner, though you can add to the amounts to make more as necessary. Instead, use a moderate amount of this wood cleaning solution to protect your floors from damage brought on by excess moisture. There are many different oils you can use to condition and polish wood floors.
Using a homemade furniture polish with coconut oil is one example of the many variations you can use to bring out the brilliant shine on your floors. This recipe will also restore hydration to worn, dry floors. Heat the ingredients in a container. The beeswax pellets need melting to appropriately blend with the oils, which requires adding them to a double saucepan or boiling them in a glass container.
Once the ingredients melt and thoroughly mix, use them on your floor. A mixture of lavender essential oil and olive oil gives a lovely scent that will always keep your house fresh with an appealing scent.
Step 2: Set up a double boiler Using a cooking pot and oven-safe bowl, create a double boiler Pour water in a boiling pot and heat the ingredients indirectly in the bowl on top of the water. Put on the stove and maintain low heat A double boiler provides a gentle way of boiling the contents indirectly.
It helps to melt the oil and prevent excessive heating that may lead to burning. You should avoid intense heating as it may cause the oil to heat faster and burn. Step 3: Making Liquid wax Break up 2 ounces of Carnauba wax into a bowl and grate 1. Pound the wax block firmly with a rolling pin to break the Carnauba wax into small pieces.
You can get both the beeswax and the carnauba wax from food stores near you or online. Place the mixture of lavender oil, olive oil, beeswax, and carnauba wax into the bowl of the double boiler and maintain low heating. Stir the ingredients gently using a wooden spoon until everything mixes and forms a uniform liquid.
Stirling is a vital practice to enhance the consistency of the final product that you need. The time that you will take to make the liquid wax will depend on the temperature of heat energy emitted by the stove that you will be using.
However, it would be safe to use low heating even though it would take a couple of minutes. Low heat is safe to use and monitor your ingredients as they melt and mix. When you have made a homogenous mixture, you can remove the bowl from the hot water in the pot and put of your stove or source of heat. I have new, high gloss laminate floors and was wondering if the wooden cleaner also works for that shiny finish unfortunately I think it was a bad decision to go for glossy Or does the olive oil make it streaky?
Hi, Steffi! Thanks for the kind words. I'm not sure how it would work for the shiny floors. I do know that Bona works great for them though.
It leaves no streaks and cleans really well. I have used it, and find that the all in one mop with sprayer that they sell is really great. Hope this helps! Thank you so much for the swift reply, dear Jessica. Very much appreciated and I will give the Bona a try as per your suggestion.
I was curious as to how long or how many times I may have to use this in order to get my older hardwood floors to come back to life? HI First time visiting your site. Great info for me. I plan on using the homemade polish you wrote about. My concern is using olive oil on wood floor.
Will that make it slippery? Mother uses a walker is the reason I ask. It leaves no residue behind, but I would wait for the floors to dry before having her walk on them. Can only olive oil be used? I have grapeseed oil on hand and would like to try to polish my floors. Just uncovering old hardwood floor that were under our carpet. I have no idea if its wax or some other finish on it. Would this wood floor polish be ok it if was any type of wood floor?
I want to use a floor polish on a linoleum kitchen floor. I am concerned about safety for my 8 month old baby who lies on the floor. We are trying to teach him how to crawl. We think it will be easier for him to crawl on a floor rather then on carpet. I just ran out of the wash and shine, the wife bought for our laminate flooring. So, on the computer I went, and found your recipe. I use essential oil the wife got a party, mixed up, used it, and floors look as good or better than the retail mop and shine, or whatever it's called.
Used their empty jug, too.
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