Clean Your Car using Household Items:

Keeping your car clean has many benefits and will not only preserve it better from the elements, but it can also have a healthy effect on your mood and self-perception. By making use of ingredients you find around the house, you can avoid expensive cleaning products and enjoy a well-maintained car.

For Exterior:

Add one cup of baking soda to a gallon of soapy hot water to make a powerful cutting agent, especially for your car's winter build-up.

Kick out tree sap with Denatured alcohol, Denatured alcohol also dissipates tar and sap well or you can use peanut butter. Dab peanut butter or solid shortening onto the affected area of your car and allow it to sit for about a minute. After that, try wiping off with a cloth.

Wash your car with hair shampoo. Shampoo is the best option you can use to cut grease and grime on the body of your car. Shampoo for kids is ideal, as its gentle ingredients won't harm your car's paint.

Mix 2 teaspoons into a 2 gallon (7.6 L) bucket of water. Use only a soft cloth. Don’t use much shampoo, as undiluted cleaners can also damage your car's paint.

Use a clean dust-mop to reach difficult places. If you have difficulty reaching the roof, hood, or other places, this is a great scrubber that can help you out.

For Hard Surfaces and the Center Console:-

Wipe all surfaces clean with a damp rag. This will remove excess grunge from the surfaces of your car and prevent you from spreading dirtiness to your seats or floor.

Use toothpaste on stains. Stains for leather or vinyl seats can be removed by gently scrubbing the affected area with toothpaste.

Develop a mixture of water and rubbing alcohol. Spray this mixture on hard surfaces and then wipe them with used fabric softener sheets so you don't leave lint behind.

Try a solution of one part vinegar with one part linseed oil. The shine it leaves behind on your leather seats is an added bonus.

Sprinkle some baking soda in your car's ashtray. This will absorb the smells and odors and keep your car fresh.

Apply homemade protectant to vinyl and hard surfaces. Mix one part fresh lemon juice with two parts olive oil in a small bowl of your choosing. Do not apply this solution to pedals, levers, or anything you need to drive. This protectant leaves behind a smooth seal that you don't want to slip on while operating your vehicle.

Dab a small amount on your cloth. Use this solution on the dashboard, plastic surfaces, and vinyl surfaces. It will give the hard surfaces of your car a beautiful shine.

For Cleaning Fabric:-

Vacuum completely and take out all soil and trash conceivable. Remove grease stains with corn-starch. Sprinkle these kinds of stains with corn-starch and set your timer for 30 minutes. When your time expires, vacuum the corn-starch and check the condition of the stain.

Some experts recommend using a little water with the corn-starch to make a paste. Use the equal parts vinegar and water in a spray bottle to make a mixture. use this mixture to stains and allow for a short soak before blotting.

Soften scorch marks with a raw onion. This works great for burn marks left by cigarettes. Use a cut onion to the burn, and after you notice that the juice of the onion has been absorbed into the fabric, soak the stain in water to lessen the unsightliness of the damage.

Make a general, heavy-duty cleaner. In a heavy-duty spray bottle, mix one cup of Dawn dish soap (blue), one cup of white vinegar, and one cup of club soda. Use mixture liberally and scrub with brush to lift and remove stains.

For Window:-

Save it for last. You might want to take care of windows first, but many people prefer to save this for last to prevent any splatter or mist from clouding a clean window when working on other parts of the car.

Forgo paper towels. Newspaper and microfiber towels are highly absorbent and you don't have to worry about leaving lint or streaks behind. This is also a cheaper alternative, as cloth can be reused and newspaper is typically less expensive than paper products.

Wipe windows clean from top to bottom. It will stop clean up drip marks or trails. It will your missed spots.

Make your own mixture, take a cup of water, half a cup of vinegar, and a quarter of cup alcohol for your homemade window cleaner. After this process, your mixture is ready to be used.

In the lack of alcohol, you can use vinegar and water to good effect, too.

Spray your cleaner onto your windows. Make sure to wipe window from top to bottom perfectly.

Use a Steel Wool (0000) to remove stubborn watermarks.

Gently rub the windshield with the steel wool in a circular movement.

Wash and allow to dry.