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. 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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