Create a Chemical-Free Car Cleaning Kit
Eliminating harmful chemical cleaners from our household was a goal on mine when my kids were babies. I took the leap and invested in Young Living Essential Oils and Norwex cleaning products in 2016 and I decided to create some DIY cleaners. One of the first items I made using essential oils was a car wash kit to give to my hubby for Father’s Day. I created some easy Essential Oils for cleaning the interior of a car which resulted in an awesome DIY Car Wash Bucket Kit with Free Printables!
Keep reading to learn how to make this fun Chemical-Free Car Wash Kit using essential oils and Norwex products! I also included the essential oil recipes so you can make a car wash kit of your own!
Disclaimer: This post is an extension of my own personal research and experience. It is not to be used in place of medical advice. The author disclaims all liability in relation to the use of this information. The statements made in this post have not been evaluated by the FDA (U.S. Food & Drug Administration). The information in this post is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. The information provided in this post is not a substitute for a face-to-face consultation with your physician, and should not be construed as medical advice. See my full disclaimer here.
WHAT ARE ESSENTIAL OILS
It’s okay if you aren’t entirely sure what essential oils are and their purpose – I didn’t either until 2016, however, I wish I knew about them 20 years ago!
Essential Oils are natural oils extracted from plants and trees. From Young Living’s Website: “Extracted through careful steam distillation, resin tapping, and cold pressing, the purest essential oils are far more powerful than the botanical from which they come.
Essential oils have enhanced lives for thousands of years, offering a variety of benefits from cosmetic and dietary purposes to spiritual and religious use.”
You can use essential oils topically, inhale them, or ingest them. When applied topically, the oils travel through your bloodstream and every cell in your body in about 20 minutes.
You can inhale essential oils by diffusing them or simply inhaling directly from the bottle. Some oils can be ingested by adding a few drops to beverages, food or in a capsule. I’ve personally experienced major positive health changes by ingesting essential oils after discovering I had an overactive thyroid and Graves Disease.
To learn more about essential oils, check out this post or scroll to the bottom 🙂
My favorite chemical-free cleaning products to use (other than essential oils) are from Norwex. I discovered Norwex while shopping at a home event right after we bought our house two years ago.
We had these amazing hardwood floors installed in our new house and I wasn’t sure what product I should use to clean them. After seeing a demonstration of the Norwex products, I decided to try the mop and cloths and they are now the only products I use to clean a majority of my home!
When I heard that Norwex had a car wash mitt, I knew it would be the perfect addition to create a chemical-free car wash kit.
The Norwex window cloth has the best window cleaning results I’ve ever seen… so much that I haven’t used Windex in years! In fact, since I started using essential oils combined with Norwex, we don’t have a single toxic chemical cleaner in our home.
Get everything you need to make the most out of your essential oils with these 15 Incredibly Useful Supplies for Your Essential Oils.
DIY Chemical-Free Car Wash Cleaning Kit
The recipes for the DIY essential oils cleaning products are below!
Supplies:
- Free Printable Father’s Day Labels (For Dad or Grandpa)- Below 🙂
- Essential Oils – Go here to get yours
- 16 oz Glass Spray Bottles – Here
- Sugar Dispenser – Dollar Store or Here
- Wheel Cleaning Brush – Here
- Norwex Car Wash Mitt – try Here or Here
- Norwex Purple Window Cloth – Here or Here
- Bucket – Dollar Store or Here
Directions:
Carpet Fresh Powder Recipe:
- 1 cup of Baking Soda
- 15 drops of Essential Oil of your choice
Stir soda and oil together. Place everything in a shaker bottle. I sealed the holes on mine with packing tape until it is ready to use. You can use this in the home as well 🙂
All-Purpose (Thieves) Cleaner Recipe:
- 16 oz of Distilled Water
- 16 drops of Thieves Essential oil
Shake for every use. Can be used in your home (on counters, floors, bathroom) or inside car (dash, doors, tires). I add lemon oil to my home all-purpose cleaner for a fresh scent.
WHERE TO BUY ESSENTIAL OILS
I only use Young Living essential oils because of the quality and their method of distilling produce the best essential oils available on the market today. In fact, Young Living has a Seed to Seal guarantee that surpasses any other oil company’s guarantee of the quality and purity of their oils. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’d rather pay a little more guaranteed quality oils than paying a little less for cheap oils that may or may not provide the same benefit.
Also, Do Not Buy Young Living Essential Oils from Amazon, eBay or other third-party sites.
The reason I only buy oils directly from Young Living is the same reason I wouldn’t buy a designer handbag from the back of a van on a street corner. It’s probably not the real thing or has been tampered with in some way. You wouldn’t want to apply or ingest an “oil” that someone put something strange in or receive a bottle of “water” instead of oil (trust me, this happens all the time!). Please don’t be the one that gets scammed by buying essential oils anywhere other than Young Living!
Now that that’s out of the way, here are few more facts & benefits that Young Living offers:
- YL offers many membership benefits, including monthly essential oils, rewards programs to earn FREE product
- Young Living is also the only essential oil company that is approved by the FDA with a special line of Vitality oils and products
- YL has 22+ years of experience and is the only oil company that owns their own farms
Signing up to become a Young Living Member is really easy!
Here are quick step-by-step instructions on how to sign up for a Young Living account and a few tips & tricks to get your FREE products!
To try Young Living, go here (keep reading for a special gift from me when you sign up through my link!)
Select to become a Member.
I signed up as a member so I could get the starter kit, the discount, and the option to sell the products later. Since I started using oils in March 2016, I have enjoyed tons of FREE products from being a member.
I take advantage of the essential rewards where they basically give you money back to buy more products AND they send you free stuff every few months just for using the essential rewards program.
Here’s what the starter kit contains:
- A diffuser of your choice (dewdrop is pictured above and my favorite one)
- 11 different bottles of essential oil (includes their most popular oils!)
- Sample essential oils (to give to friends & family – or just keep selfishly for yourself, hehe)
- 1 roller fitment (pop this on one of the bottles for a fast roller ball bottle!)
- Literature on the oils
A Special Gift From Me
If you go through my link to sign up for a Young Living account (as a member), here’s what you get for FREE from me:
- 50 All-Natural Skin Care Solutions Using Essential Oils EBook ($17.97 value)
- Essential Oils Roller Bottle Recipes Cheat Sheet ($2.97 value)
- Printable Labels for 10ml Roller Bottle Labels for Essential Oils – 31 Printable Labels in Pink, Black, & Teal ($4.97 value)
Get everything above ($27.94 value) for FREE when you sign up through my link below! Once you’ve signed up, just send me an email with the subject line “Claiming my oil freebies” and I will send your freebies!
Let me know in the comments if you are excited to make these candles or if are an essential oils beginner and need more tips 😉
Pin this post with a DIY Car Was Bucket Kit for later…
~The free printable PDF includes:
- Bucket label (for either Dad or Grandpa)
- Bottle labels (All-Purpose Cleaner, Carpet Fresh, Window Cleaner)
- Car wash coupons (1 exterior & interior wash, 1 exterior only wash, 1 tire scrub)
- Blank labels/coupons (you can write in your own coupons or labels)
~Print labels on sticker paper or use double-sided tape to attach (I used double-sided tape on light-weight cardstock and it worked out perfectly!).
~For the coupons: print, cut, hole punch one end and tie together with a ribbon.
Here’s what the Grandpa label looks like…
Have fun making this chemical-free car wash Cleaning kit for Father’s Day with Free Printables!
Here are more Father’s Day posts that you might like…
Father’s Day Free Printable Greeting Cards
Have you notice that greeting cards these are days are really expensive?! Seriously, the hubby gave me a Mother’s Day card and when I looked at the price on the back (it’s a bad habit, I know) I saw that he paid close to $10 for it! Half the time these cards end up being recycled or stuffed in a drawer causing clutter, so that day we made a pact to not buy any more greeting cards. Besides, you can find so many free ones online or make them yourself! So, I put together a few greeting cards for my kiddos to give their dad this year and sharing them with you ????
–>Keep reading to get these Free Printable Father’s Day Greeting Cards Coloring Craft for Kids!
Dollar Tree BBQ Gift Basket For Dad
Summer is in full swing and we are ready for lots of backyard entertaining and BBQs with this summer gift basket idea!
–>>Check out this DIY Dollar Store BBQ Themed Gift Basket and how to create this frugal gift idea for under $5!
15 Clever Father’s Day Gift Ideas
Make shopping for a Father’s Day gift this year a piece of cake by giving him one of the useful items on this list. The hubby helped me come up with this list (thanks, hubby!) so you can trust that there are more men out there that want these things ???? The items on this list range from $14-$500 so there is something affordable to something to splurge on! If he already has everything on this list, keep reading for the best fail-proof gift idea.
–>>Here are 15 Clever Father’s Day Gift Ideas that Every Dad Should Know About!
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Laura Cox
What a great Father’s Day gift idea! Love the natural products too! BL