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****Scroll down to the bottom if you’d like to know right off the bat why this is a Witchy Recipe***

So, this method of creating a concentrated citrus cleaner has been going around the internet for a while now. It’s super simple to make, disinfects, and is an extremely effective cleaner. I’ve been using this recipe for a while now, and it cleans everything from cooked on crud on the stove, to mystery stains in the fridge, to not-so-mystery (but let’s not think about it) junk in your toilet bowl. It’s very cost-effective to make as well. All you need is citrus peels and white vinegar.

Start off by collecting your citrus peels. I’ll usually just throw them in an empty mandarin crate so they’ll dry instead of rot.

Grab a glass jar, and fill it with your peels. Really cram them in there. Compact them as much as possible (Picture 1).

Fill the jar with vinegar, wait a few minutes for it to settle, then add more if need be. You want the vinegar to reach the lip of the jar.

Screw the lid on tightly, then turn the jar over a few times. Leave in a dark corner of your counter for about two weeks, turning the jar daily.

You’ll know your cleaner is ready when the peels at the top start looking greyish (picture 2), and the scent of vinegar is gone. (Yes, you read that right. Once the cleaner is ready, it smells like citrus, not vinegar).

Transfer the contents of the jar into a bowl, and, using a potato masher, mash the living daylights out of the peels. Decant into a spray bottle, filtering through a fine cheesecloth.

Fill the remainder of the bottle with water. (about 1 part concentrate to 3 parts water)

How about we get to the witchy part of this recipe?

Now, this is a simple DIY cleaner recipe, but I took a moment to look up the magickal properties of various citrus peels, and Lo! & Behold!, they pretty much all have purification among their properties:

Clementine: Purification, transformation, protection, joy, inspiration

Grapefruit: Cleansing, purification

Lemon: Energizing, health, healing, physical energy, purification

Lime: Purification and protection, promoting calmness and tranquility, and strengthening love.

Mandarin: Awakening, Inspiration

Orange: Purification, joy, physical energy, magickal energy

Tangerine: Promotes energy, strength, and vitality. Awakens joy and dissolves negativity.

So, once you’ve made your cleaner, you can either use it as is, or bless/charge it to remove negative energies while you clean. It would be quite simple to make a blend of several citrus peels, such as lemon for purification, orange for joy, and lime for protection, making a multi-purpose, multi-intent blend!

Happy Cleansing Cleaning!