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Best All-Natural Way to Clean Grout

August 13, 2014 By Karen Cooper 7 Comments

If you follow me on Instagram, you got to see me clean my bathroom (lucky you!). I needed to get our bathroom ready for selling our home. I needed to clean the grout on our ceramic tile floor, but didn’t want to use bleach or other harsh cleaners. I found the best, easiest, all-natural way to clean grout, using stuff I already had in my kitchen!

The best all-natural way to clean grout using products from your pantry - thediybungalow.com

This is all you need:

All natural way to clean grout using what you have in your pantry - thediybungalow.com

You could use a toothbrush instead of, or in addition to, the scrub brush.

This could not be easier! Sprinkle baking soda on the grout lines (don’t worry about being precise about this). Then spray or pour vinegar over the baking soda. It will bubble up and make all kinds of good cleaning noises!

Then take the scrub brush or toothbrush and scrub the grout lines. You don’t need major muscles for the scrubbing; just a little pressure on the brush is all that’s needed. You can see the difference here:

See the difference using the best all-natural way to clean grout using what you have in your pantry - thediybungalow.comI could not believe the difference!

And, instead of smelling like bleach and maybe taking the color out of your clothing during this project, you can smell like an Easter egg! Vinegar smells way better than bleach and is less harsh on your skin, nasal passages, clothing, and the floor.

All clean using best all-natural way to clean grout - thediybungalow.com

The whole floor took me about three hours total.

Clean floor using best all-natural way to clean grout - thediybungalow.com

It looks so much better! #buymyhouse

Best all-natural way to clean grout - thediybungalow.com

NOTE: A few people noted that the vinegar will etch the grout. I researched this issue, and found conflicting information. So, try this on a small area of your floor first and make sure it doesn’t negatively affect the grout before tackling the whole floor.

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About Karen Cooper

Hi! I'm Karen. I call myself a “recovering lawyer” - I traded in my power suits for power tools and a life of DIY adventures. Join me for DIY, home decorating, repurposing and upcycling, and organizing projects and tips as I transform a 1929 Tudor bungalow into our home. I believe in merging old and new to make a house a home.

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Comments

  1. Dee @CupcakesandCrowbars says

    August 13, 2014 at 11:03 am

    Awesome, and you’re right – I DO have all these things already!

    Reply
    • Karen Cooper says

      August 13, 2014 at 11:06 am

      Yay! Get cleaning then! 😉

      Reply
  2. Cynthia says

    August 13, 2014 at 1:10 pm

    I am going to have to try this.

    Reply
  3. Sally says

    February 4, 2015 at 2:48 pm

    I learned that you can only use vinegar on tile if the grout is sealed. The man who put our tile floor down told us this. Hope this will help some folks.

    Reply
    • Karen Cooper says

      February 4, 2015 at 3:20 pm

      Great! Thank you for adding that!

      Reply
  4. Chelsie says

    November 9, 2015 at 3:58 pm

    Are you able to mix the baking soda and vinegar in the same spay container, and spray it on the grout in the shower?

    Reply
    • Karen Cooper says

      November 10, 2015 at 7:48 am

      No, don’t do that. The baking soda and vinegar react and create bubbles and gas and that’s what helps clean the grout. If you mix them before, it will bubble and fizz in the bottle, which will reduce the cleaning power plus will probably make a mess. Hope that helps!

      Reply

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