20 Best Borax Uses

Sprinkle borax on furniture and under cushions and let it sit for a couple of hours. Vacuum it up and you will remove any pet odors, or just odors in general on your furniture. Just keep your pets away until you vacuum it up, as it is not good for them to eat.

You don’t need expensive drain treatments, you just need half a cup of borax. Pour the borax down your drain followed by about two cups of boiling water. Leave for about 15 minutes, and then run your tap for a bit to flush it all out. The borax will clear up any clogs, as well as disinfect and eliminate odors.

One of the most popular borax uses is pest control. You can keep pests like cockroaches, ants, water bugs and other pests away by mixing equal parts of borax and regular sugar. The sugar draws the bugs in and the borax rids you of them. Just be sure to only use in places pets and small children won’t be able to ingest.

A small amount of borax will take pencil or crayon marks off of your walls, which is a great mom hack! Just test a small spot first to make sure it doesn’t remove any of your paint.

There are so many borax uses, but this one may be your favorite if you’re a cat owner. Mix a little bit of borax into your cat’s litter to keep it smelling fresh longer. The high pH of the borax works to eliminate the ammonia smell that comes from the lower pH of the urine.

For anyone that has carpet in their homes, we have some great carpet cleaning hacks for you. Borax does a great job of removing odors and stains from carpet without leaving it feeling tacky like a lot of the store bought powders do. Use 1/4 cup borax to one cup of water. Mix to dissolve the borax into the water. Spray or pour this mixture directly onto the stain (great for pet accidents). To deodorize, just sprinkle borax onto carpet and let it sit for a while before vacuuming it up.

One of the most popular borax uses is to use it as a laundry booster. You can use borax for your laundry in two ways. To make clothes cleaner and fresher, add about 1/2 cup of borax to your loads of laundry. If you have really stubborn stains, you can do a pretreatment using 1/2 cup of borax with one cup of warm water. Soak the clothes in this mixture for about half an hour before washing.

You may have used the rice in a bag trick when your cell phone has gotten wet, but did you know you can also use borax? Just place your cell phone in a plastic bag with about one tablespoon of borax. Be careful not to let it go directly into any cracks or outlets in your phone. Leave it for about an hour and your phone should turn back on. Borax to the rescue!

You may have flowers from a special occasion that you want to preserve or you may just love dried flowers. Either way, there’s a borax trick for that too. With borax and corn meal you can preserve flowers yourself at home.

Borax makes a great all-purpose cleaner for your home. Mix 2 tablespoons of borax with 2 cups of water in a spray bottle, and you have your own all-purpose cleaner. You can add lemon juice or your favorite essential oils if you want to make it scented. This makes a great cleaner for kitchen and bathroom surfaces, and is much cheaper than most store bought all-purpose cleaners.

There are so many household borax uses, especially when it comes to cleaning. Your floors can benefit from borax too. Just mix one teaspoon of dish detergent with 1/3 cup of Borax, one tablespoon of lemon juice and one gallon of hot water, and you have a great floor cleaner! This homemade floor cleaner is safe on tile, linoleum and hardwood flooring and will remove stubborn stains, even if they’ve been there a while.

Garbage disposals are tough to clean and great for bacteria and odors to thrive. Sprinkle a few tablespoons of borax into your garbage disposal and let it sit for about fifteen minutes. Run your garbage disposal with hot water for a few minutes, and you’re done!