Combine Ingredients
Carefully mix together your cleaning ingredients in a new, empty spray bottle.
This eliminates the possibility of a dangerous chemical reaction between the new ingredients and the old cleaner.
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Homemade Glass Cleaner With Corn Starch
Yes, cornstarch.
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Why it helps is anyone’s guess, but a lot of people withformerly filthy windowsswear by it.
There are a couple of tricks to using this formula.
Mix the Ingredients
Combine ingredients in a clean, unused spray bottle.
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Label as glass cleaner.
If you’ve made two different glass cleaning solutions, mark this one as having cornstarch.
It’s free, it’s recyclable, and it leaves glass and mirrors without streaks and lint.
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Cotton rags and paper towels leave too much lint, and paper towels are a waste of paper.
This is the exception to the previously mentioned advice about mixing ingredients for the best performance.
Water is an excellent glass cleaner, but only if you also have a very high-quality microfiber glass-cleaning cloth.
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Thebest microfiber clothsare made of 70 percent polyester and 30 percent polyamide.
They also can cost upwards of $15 or $20 each.
Cheap microfiber cloths don’t have the same cleaning power and usually aren’t worth the trouble.
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If you have a cheap cloth, you’re probably better off with a blended solution and newspaper.
Household Cleaning & Sanitizing.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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