Michigan State University Extension
Home Maintenance And Repair - 01500444
06/24/03

Homemade Cleaners - Finding the Ingredients


Common basic ingredients used for most homemade
cleaners can be bought in the grocery store. If you want
some of the more uncommon ingredients, here is a list of
where you can usually find them. Not all paint or
hardware stores will carry them; phone to find one that
does, as some ingredients are not much in demand today.

Acetone---hardware and drug store (is in nail polish
remover)
Art Gum---art supplies
Boiled Linseed Oil---hardware or paint store
Denatured Alcohol---hardware or drug store
Fuller's Earth---hardware or drug store
Gum Turpentine---hardware or paint store
Neat's-Foot Oil---shoe repair shop or hardware
Oxalic Acid---hardware or drug store
Pumice Powder---paint or hardware store
Raw Linseed Oil---hardware
Rottenstone---hardware
Stick Shellac---hardware
Tung Oil---paint store
Whiting---hardware (or school athletic department--used
to mark white lines on fields)

This article was written by Anne Field, Extension
Specialist, Emeritus with references from Georgia
Extension bulletin, Home Furnishings.

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