How to make homemade disinfecting surface wipes

It’s important to keep surfaces clean and disinfected – especially during a pandemic emergency. Because the coronavirus can live on surfaces for up to a few days, keeping up your cleaning regimen is essential to your health and the continued sanitation of the home.

The CDC recommends disinfecting areas where there can be large numbers of household germs — and where there is a possibility that these germs could be spread to others. Here are some hotspots to hit: doorknobs, faucet handles, toilet flushers, bathrooms, phones, keyboards, remote controls, countertops, and tables. Keeping your hard surfaces clean is essential during the flu season. Here is an easy way to keep the cleaning as convenient as possible.

Moreover, they suggest the best way to keep a home clean is by using these guidelines:

  • Cleaning refers to the removal of germs, dirt, and impurities from surfaces. Cleaning does not kill germs, but by removing them, it lowers their numbers and the risk of spreading infection.
  • Disinfecting refers to using chemicals to kill germs on surfaces. This process does not necessarily clean dirty surfaces or remove germs, but by killing germs on a surface after cleaning, it can further lower the risk of spreading infection.

Since we all love the convenience of cleaning wipes, here’s an easy way to make them.

Here’s What You Need:

  • 1 roll of paper towels
  • Clorox
  • Water
  • Plastic cleaning container for wipes (I like to reuse old Clorox wipes containers)

Homemade Disinfecting Surface Wipes

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 roll paper towels
  • 1/2 cup Clorox (or any bleach)
  • 1 tablespoon liquid dish soap
  • 1-gallon water

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Add bleach and dish soap to water; stir well.
  2. Cut paper towel roll to fit into the desired container.*
  3. Pour enough solution over paper towel roll to fully absorb (2-4 cups).
  4. Remove the cardboard center from paper towel roll.
  5. Pull pieces of paper towel (wipes) from the center hole of the roll.
  6. Cover surface; allow to sit for 5 full minutes.
  7. Wipe with a wet cloth; air dry.

NOTES

There is always some of the disinfecting solution left over. Add it to a spray bottle for another use. Cotton towels can also be placed in the solution, used, laundered and reused.

This is a simple way to repurpose your old Clorox wipes containers and save a few dollars by making your own.

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My name is Tess Pennington, and I am the founder of Ready Nutrition.  I was raised by a prepper (before the phrase was coined) in Houston, TX where hurricanes would batter and bruise the coast every few years.  My father, being the extremely detail oriented individual that he is, was prepared for everything, beer fridge included.  Even when Hurricane Alisha came through in the 1980’s, we were ready for anything to come our way, and as the neighbors were holed up in hotels, we were comfortably living at home.

After graduating from college, I joined the Red Cross in 1999. Seeing that the Red Cross had contingency plans for everything, I realized how important it was to be prepared.  On 9/11, my Red Cross Chapter became the headquarters for dealing with the aftermath of that American tragedy.  Within a few hours, a command center was set up, volunteers came in by the droves, and we were ready.  I suppose you could say that was a defining moment in my life.  I admired this organization’s forethought to prepare, and it influenced my decision to put my own disaster plan into place.

I think we can all identify with the idea that everyday, somewhere around the world, there is a major disaster.  Whether it be natural, man made, or felt on a personal level with family disasters, many people are caught off guard and are ill-equipped to handle the unexpected.

Preparing for those disasters that I may come in contact with seemed only natural.  Why wouldn’t I want to get some items and supplies together?  I started this website, Ready Nutrition to document my journey on this preparedness road.  The more I learn, the more it changes my outlook on life for the better.

My hope is that we can learn, share and find insight together.

Please feel free to contact me any time with thoughts, ideas, tips and suggestions.

My thanks to you for visiting Ready Nutrition.

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