Glass Cleaner

Again, we have a simple recipe with everyday ingredients.  However, I was skeptical that something that resembled watered down milk could clean my glass. 

The acid test was what I like to refer to as "Gracie's Art." These charming, surrealist images are created with her little doggie nose on any glass surface she can reach (approximately 6-18 inches from the floor). Thus I have the canine equivalent of the Louvre on my patio windows and a small, cutting edge installation on the mirrored doors to the coat closet by my door.  Any glass cleaner has to cut through that and not leave a streak.

Again, the recipe for this came from The Everything Soap Blog. 

I tossed the ingredients into a bottle in less time than it took to dig out the corn starch from the back of my cupboard.  I have a small kitchen, but I love to cook. Thus I have more things packed into the few cabinets and drawer than I would think possible. Thanks to endless hours of playing Tetris on road trips as a kid and my dad's lessons on packing, I can make the feat work.

Taking my runny milky mixture to the mirrored entry way doors, I started spraying. There was a moment of absolute doubt and I was already composing my "it was a failure" post. I wiped for about a second or two more and then it was clear. I moved down the mirror to Gracie's art. This would be the deal breaker. Lo and behold, it cut through the caked on doggie art and left no streaks whatsoever.

It took a bit more elbow grease than some of the other options out there, but again, for the price difference and the knowledge that you're not layering on the chemicals, it is worth ten extra seconds of wiping. This gets a 10. Ditch those glass cleaners and start using this. For pennies you can have a big bottle of glass cleaner and no unnecessary chemicals.