What goes in the bottle
Lynn lists it out before she starts: a cup of water, four tablespoons of Dawn and two tablespoons of alcohol, plus a spray bottle that has the air pump built into it. She says if you have the old Powerwash bottle you can save it, recycle it and refill it, and she is reusing a pump bottle she already owns rather than buying another.
She says up front what she uses it on: countertops, stoves and dishes, and the vent hood over the stove that gets all that greasy film on it, which she says this homemade spray will make come straight off. She also says there are a lot of homemade Powerwash recipes going around now, and this is the one she found that is working great for her in a kitchen where she does a lot of cooking and messes up a lot of dishes.
How Lynn mixes it
She starts with one cup of water, then measures four tablespoons of Dawn, which she points out is a quarter cup. Using the same cup she fills it to half of that, which gives her the two tablespoons of alcohol.
The alcohol is the part she will not skip. She says you have to use it, because if you do not, your little sprayer will get stopped up with the Dawn. Looking at the cup she also points out the alcohol separating and sitting on top of the Dawn before she stirs the two together.
Everything after that is about not making bubbles. She stirs the Dawn and alcohol together slow so she does not bubble the Dawn up, since a bottle full of suds is hard to fill, then adds that mixture to the water real slow and gives it a light mix. She uses a funnel and pours slowly into the bottle, then puts the sprayer back in, tightens it and gives it a little shake.
How she uses it
She goes down her list on camera. It makes a great eyeglass cleaner, and on dishes with grease or anything stuck on she sprays it good and lets it soak around 5 minutes before washing.
On the kitchen surfaces she sprays the top of her glass stove, where it works up bubbles, and says it works good on countertops too. For the inside of her oven door she lets it soak around 10 minutes before wiping, and her takeaway there is that the longer you let it soak, the cleaner it will come.
What it costs
The savings are the whole point for her. She says the store version runs about $7 a bottle, and doing it this way puts about 50 cents in your bottle, and repeats at the end that it is around 50 cents compared to almost $6 to $7 a bottle at the store.
Once it is mixed and in the bottle, she holds it up and says what is in the bottom of it looks just like the blue Powerwash, and she sprays it so you can see how it comes out before you mix your own. She signs off saying spring is just around the corner and they will be needing Powerwash spray for a lot of spring cleaning.
Follow the labels on every product you mix, and test any cleaner on a small hidden spot first.