Fill (homemade cleaning recipe ingredients)

Fill bulk cleaning ingredients are sold in refillable glass bottles with cardboard refills. Ideal if you like to make homemade cleaning recipes, rather than buy commercial versions.

Use with plastic-free cloths and sponges. Choose Unscented for pregnancy/nursing and when cleaning near babies or pets (citrus oils are toxic to pets). Never mix vinegar or lemon juice with any bleach (causes toxic gas). For half-full bottles of chemical liquids, don’t pour down drain (dispose of at your local tip).

Northamptonshire Cleaning Soap is made from local cold-pressed rapeseed oil, and good for all-round cleaning and degreasing. Add a little bicarbonate of soda and table salt to make a homemade oven cleaner.

Citric acid (mix with a spoon if it’s clumpy on contact with air) is a good all-round cleaner, and can also be used to tackle limescale, and clean showers. Made from corn, it can chelate calcium and magnesium ions to remove remove limescale in kettles.

Biocarbonate of soda is a mild abrasive to cut grime. For hard surface cleaning, mix 1 part to 100 in water, or sprinkle in the bottom of bins or containers.

For homemade bathroom cleaner, mix 1 tablespoon with 1 capful of unscented biodegradable washing-up liquid and 250ml of cleaning vinegar. Don’t use on natural stone like granite or marble quartz, nor sealed grout or waxed surfaces. Test on a hidden area, and wear SEEP rubber gloves.

Cleaning vinegar (not the same as chip shop vinegar!) is good to shift limescale and clean glass, floors, bathrooms and work surfaces. Dilute or use neat, to clean bathrooms, mix with equal amount of water, spray on and wipe off, and for toilets, add 1/2 cup to the warm water in the bowl, leave for an hour then flush.

To unplug drains, pour boiling water down the plug, drop 1 tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda, followed by 250ml of cleaning vinegar, it will fizz. Wait 15 minutes, then flush with more boiling water.

Fill for Business offers wholesale accounts, with generous martins and free delivery. This would likely prove popular, as supermarkets (to keep profits on their toxic brands) rarely sell bulk baking soda and cleaning vinegar, they only sell the tiny bottles of baking soda for cakes.