Blend well by giving it a good shake and spray onto your windows.
Castile soap and vinegar.
You also don t want to mix acids like vinegar or lemon juice with castile soap as the two will counteract each other and cause a film to appear on whatever you re trying to clean.
So if you mix the two of them together you are lowering the ph of soap or raising the ph of the vinegar.
Bronner s castile soap and vinegar can clean an entire house.
They are effective versatile biodegradable and non toxic.
But the sole point of this post is to emphasize that these two should not be mixed directly.
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Both are fantastic cleaners.
You can add a few drops of tea tree and lemon essential oil to the mixture to make it a bit more effective.
But they must be used separately.
Mix half a cup of white vinegar 2 teaspoons of castile liquid soap and 2 cups of distilled warm water into a spray bottle.
There is one exception where vinegar can be mixed with castile soap and that is by adding baling soda to the soap.
Combining vinegar with castile soap can also leave behind a white film.
Use newspaper to clean it leaving it streak free.
I do use one or two recipes with a teeny tiny bit of castile soap and vinegar and haven t had a sludgy reaction but just be careful as you re mixing up cleaning concoctions.
It s also important to remember that soap is a cleanser and not a disinfectant meaning it may remove some harmful bacteria but it doesn t kill it.
Vinegar is an acid and castile soap is a base when the two mix together the vinegar separates the soap into its original oils reducing its cleaning properties.
This is because the alkaline nature of the soap reacts with the acid vinegar and they cancel out each other.
The acid in the vinegar mixes with the castile to make a sludge.
Castile soap is at one end alkaline ph of 8 10ish and vinegar is at the other acidic ph of 2 3ish.
This is true for the castile soap and any acid any vinegar or lemon juice.