 I hope that you're ready for a lot of cleaning, motivation and inspiration because I am taking today, most of what's left of today, and then the whole day tomorrow to totally disinfect and clean my house from the absolute top to the bottom. So I'm sure that this video is pretty long and I have a lot to tackle. Obviously with a lot of sickness going around, the virus, all of those things, it's just really important I feel like to keep our homes disinfected and very, very clean right now. And we had our own set of sickness. I had the flu last week. And so I just really feel like it's important for me to get every nook and cranny possible. Because of what I'm cleaning with, I'm actually gonna flip the camera around and show you guys something kind of cool over here. So I recently switched all of my cleaning to essential oils and Norwex cloths. And you guys have been asking a lot of questions about these. If they really work, do they work effectively? Those sorts of things. I'm gonna do a little test here with a cleaner that we all know and use, wipes and then also the Norwex cloth. Okay, I'm gonna take this chicken, smear it all over the top of this. Oh my goodness, it smells so terrible. So terrible, it stinks so bad. Maybe I shouldn't have let it sit out so long. And then I'm gonna put it back over here. Next I'm gonna take my blue light over this so you can see where the chicken juice was smeared. And then I'm gonna take the cleaner that most of us use, spray it over the top of this and grab my wipes. And of course, one thing that you do have to keep in mind is most cleaners, you have to leave them sit for 10 minutes. To truly do that, you have to soak down the entire surface and then continually resew it, which I don't think many of us do. I know I don't, whenever I use wipes and cleaners and things like that, I'm not coming through and continuously making it wet. And unfortunately, what this does is it dries and gets all dried up with that stuff way, way before 10 minutes is up. So, oh, I got a little more cleaner up here. Make sure that it's wiped up good and then we'll do the bottom. So I'm gonna set my wipe over here and take my Norwex cloth and wipe the bottom half, making sure that I get all of that chicken and nastiness, all of it wiped up. All right, I'm gonna grab my blue light here and as you can see, it's already drying. So it's only been like two minutes and you can see that there is so much left behind. So much. And down here, we've got nothing but scratches on my stove top. I'll go over it really well so you guys can see that there really isn't anything left. And up here, lots of scary, scary stuff left behind. Now the worst part about it is, is cross contamination. So there's times that we wipe something up like that and say that my daughter puts a little bit of her snack on the counter and as I walk by to throw this in the trash can, I just wipe that up on the counter. So let's go ahead and put this down here where we were all cleaned up and there you go. It put the chicken juice back on the bottom part where I had it all clean. So I'm gonna go over all of this one last time with the Norwex cloth so you guys can see and there you have it, all gone. When you're done using your cloth, the first thing that you wanna do is take it to the sink and wash it out with warm to hot water. And you're probably wondering how it works. So the cloths are actually made up of threads that are one two hundredth of human hair. So you can only imagine how teeny tiny that is. So they pick up all of the bacteria and dirt and grime and then you rinse it out with water which obviously rinses out some of that. And then whatever's left behind, there's actually silver woven into the cloth and silver is something that they use even in emergency rooms to treat burn victims because it kills bacteria so well. I started out in the entryway and I'm actually dusting the walls down with my dry mop head for my Norwex mop. It also comes with a silicone brush that you can remove the dirt as you're cleaning. Another great thing about Norwex is you can use essential oils along with Norwex. So I went ahead and made an antibacterial spray and my cute label is from Bella Design Co. I will leave her link below. She's a small shop and makes lots of adorable labels and things that you can use as you create things with your essential oils. To make the antiback spray, I did a half cup of white vinegar and a cup of water. I mixed in about 10 drops of on guard and 10 drops of eucalyptus oil. The great thing about your cleaners that you make with essential oil is yes, the Norwex cloth does remove bacteria but having an extra little cleaner along with it helps so that you don't have to do as much scrubbing. So I'm sure you're wondering how do you maintain your Norwex cloths, especially with them having silver in them? So Norwex has a special laundry detergent that you see right there in my laundry room in that bag and you use that to wash your cloths. You don't wanna use regular laundry detergent because the cloth will collect it just like it collects the bacteria and it will eventually clog up your fibers and your silver. The best part is that laundry detergent will last forever if you use it just for your Norwex cloths because you only need one teaspoon in each load of your Norwex things. So the reason that I started in the entryway of our home is because this is where most of the bacteria that comes from the outside comes in. 85% of contaminants come in in the first four feet of your front door. All right, so Norwex also makes a mop which is absolutely amazing considering what I just said. So I've been using my Norwex mop a lot in the front door area of our home just because I know that it's getting rid of all of the bacteria that comes through our door and eliminating possible sickness in our home. Next I moved on to the dining room area. The girls have been playing in here and I just picked everything up and put it all away. So if you check out the description box you'll see that there is a link there for Norwex. I wanted to let you guys know that anyone that orders today will have their name put into a drawing for a Norwex mop and I will be announcing the winner in my last cleaning video of April. So the reason you can use essential oils with Norwex is because they're non-toxic and they are so powerful in such tiny amounts. So since there's only a few drops in that entire bottle it's not gonna overwhelm the silver and the fibers. As you saw in the beginning Norwex is incredible at removing things. So just to show you how well their window system works I took a stick of butter and put it all over this mirror. Since Norwex cuts grease so well they are amazing to use around your stove area. And the purple cloth is a polishing cloth or a window cloth but I use them to polish a lot of different things. Another thing I wanted to note is I washed all the rest of the glass in this room without rinsing out the Norwex cloth. So it still had the butter in it but it hung on to it and did an excellent job. I also started using wool dryer balls in my dryer just to get a more clean, healthy way to eliminate static and save energy by drying my clothes faster. I add a few drops of essential oil right onto the dryer balls and it makes my laundry smell so good. Knowing that as I clean all of the bacteria is getting removed from every single surface I wipe over is such a great feeling. And I feel like it's less work being able to do it this quickly. All right, so I climbed up and did the top of these cabinets because it's right above the stove area and there was a nice layer of absolute grime up there. This is gonna become a way more regular thing for me. I didn't realize how dirty it was up there and I feel like it probably hangs onto odors and not to mention bacteria. The first thing I did whenever I started with the stove is I wiped it out just getting all of the debris that I could. Then I grabbed my cleaning paste that works amazing along with the envirocloth and went ahead and scrubbed out the bottom of the oven. I was actually pleasantly surprised at how much I got off and whatever was left behind was just stains in the bottom of the oven. Anything you said you would frame stuff up. Because of the small fibers on the dry mop head it really does a great job at collecting dust and pollen and of course cobwebs. But right now since we live in North Carolina the pollen is so thick and it does get on everything. So I thought while I'm going to the house and doing a lot of deep cleaning I'm gonna go ahead and use that to wipe the walls down. Of using lemon oil whenever I'm mopping it just makes the entire house smell so good. And again I reached for my cleaning paste to do my sink. I used to do this a lot in our other house and I kind of forgot I had it. And since I've been picking up my Norwex and really getting rid of a lot of cleaners that say they're natural but whenever you look at the ingredients they're actually a lot more chemical laden than you think. I really, really have went back to using this cleaning paste. So if you kind of think of the envirocloth which is the blue one and the gray one you saw earlier there's a lot of different colors you can color coat your home so having certain colors for the toilets having certain colors for the kitchen that kind of thing. So if you think of the envirocloth as the real muscle it's what removes all of the dirt and grime and then the window cloth is what polishes everything. I love running my diffuser while I clean it really just lightens my mood and makes the house feel so fresh. And the good old dusting mitt collecting all the pollen. Of course since I was doing deep cleaning the couch had to be swept out. Can you guys tell I've got a few toddlers? After really digging into this deep clean I decided to split it into two videos because it was just so much footage. So this is the first half I will be putting the second half of the deep clean footage out in a few days so keep your eye out for that. Also don't forget to check out the links in the description box and thanks so much for watching. I'll see you guys in my next video.