These homemade Thieves toilet bombs will keep your toilets smelling fresh between cleaning!
I’ll be honest…
I don’t really LOVE to clean my toilets. 😛
I have toddlers and boys, so messes happen often. I’ve discovered something that has helped to keep my toilets fresh and stink free between cleanings.
TOILET BOMBS!!!
Toilet bombs are a mix of baking soda, citric acid and essential oils. They absorb icky odors and help to keep toilets cleaner between cleanings. I drop one into each of our toilets every night before bed. These serious work and smell so nice!
I use Thieves essential oil blend because it’s one of my favorite essential oils for cleaning. Thieves is so popular that Young Living has a whole line of cleaning products made with Thieves essential oil! Of course, you can use your favorite essential oil to freshen your toilet. Lemon and tea tree are two both amazing too!
How To Make Thieves Toilet Bombs
You’re going to need baking soda, citric acid, your favorite essential oils, vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, a spray bottle and a cookie sheet. I purchased my baking soda and citric acid from Mountain Rose Herbs. Their baking soda is natural sourced and aluminum free.
Next you’re going to mix 1 cup of baking soda with 1/4 cup of citric acid together in a small bowl.
Pour 1 tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide into your small spray bottle. Add 1/2 teaspoon of vinegar to the bottle. Shake the bottle to mix the ingredients together.
Spray the vinegar/peroxide mix over the baking soda and citric acid. Stir the mixture and continue to spray until its damp enough to form. I used 3/4 of the spray mixture. Add 15-20 drops of essential oils to the mixture and mix very well.
Now you’r going to scoop your toilet bombs out using a teaspoon. Carefully place each bomb on your cookie sheet. Don’t worry if the mixture is a little crumbly. It’ll harden up when it’s dry!
Lastly, you’ll use the remaining vinegar mix to spray the toilet bombs. This step is important because it helps to harden the bombs so the don’t crumble. After you spray the top of the bombs you need to let them dry for 4-6 hours. They’ll harden up nicely and you’ll be able to store them in a container once they’re dry.
How To Use Toilet Bombs
Toss 1-2 bombs into your toilets anytime they need to be freshened up!
PrintThieves Toilet Bombs
These homemade Thieves toilet bombs will keep your toilets smelling fresh between cleaning!
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Total Time: 5 mins
- Yield: 40 Toilet Bombs
- Category: Cleaning
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Baking Soda
- 1/4 Cup Citric Acid
- 1 Tablespoon Hydrogen Peroxide
- 1/2 Teaspoon White Vinegar
- 20 Drops of Thieves Essential Oil (or essential oil of choice)
Instructions
- Mix baking soda and citric acid together in a small bowl.
- Pour 1 tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide into a small spray bottle.
- Add 1/2 teaspoon of vinegar to the bottle.
- Shake the bottle to mix the ingredients together.
- Spray the vinegar/peroxide mix over the baking soda and citric acid.
- Stir the mixture and continue to spray until it’s damp enough to form into balls. I used 3/4 of the spray mixture.
- Add 15-20 drops of essential oils to the mixture and mix very well.
- Scoop your toilet bombs out using a teaspoon.
- Carefully place each bomb on your cookie sheet. Don’t worry if the mixture is a little crumbly. It’ll harden up when it’s dry.
- Use the remaining vinegar mix to spray the top of the toilet bombs. This step is important because it helps to harden the bombs so the don’t crumble.
- After you spray the top of the bombs you need to let them dry for 4-6 hours.
- Once your toilet bombs are dry you can store them in a container.
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I actually looked up the vinegar hydrogen peroxide combo info… if you mix the two in the same bottle you will create a harmful gas. You need to use 2 seperate spray bottles and dilute the peroxide to a 6% solution for this to be safe. Please be careful
if this is true about the vinegar / hydrogen peroxide combination creating a toxic gas, please do take down this post. you are putting peoples health in danger.
Do not mix vinegar and hydrogen peroxide in any way – it creates a very toxic gas. In addition, hydrogen peroxide loses its properties very quickly when outside of the brown bottle (specifically designed to keep air and light out). So using hydrogen peroxide in any mix in advance for use at later time is not going to be effective
Do your research. By mixing vinegar and hydrogen peroxide you are creating peracetic acid! Use caution.
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Hi,
thanks for this great recipe! Can I skip the citric acid or replace it with lemon juice (which I used to think were the same?!)?
Thanks!
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Thank you for the wonderful recipe! The toliet bombs work great!!
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Question about the Thieves Toilet Bombs – do you put them in the tank or in the bowl over night?
Hello Tiffany I’ve just discovered you tonight and I’m excited to give your toilet bombs a try just have to purchase a couple of ingredients ? Then bombs away !
Hi
Can I skid the hydrogen peroxide or replace it with something else?
Thank you
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Can I use Thieves cleaner in place of the oil? How much would you recommend?
Thanks!
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No, only essential oils.
I read the post about the toxic gas. In the small amount being used, it not an issue. Fact baking soda and vinegar is a natural anitsteadic. With the right amount together will knock you out, and can put you to sleep and or cause death. To much you’ll get sick.
Just the facts.
OMG, Tiffany!!! I literally was going to go on the hunt for just such a recipe this very day and what do you know? There it was in my email box!!!! TY so much. I have all the ingredients I need to make them and I’m going to do them up tomorrow when I have a little peace and quiet in the house. Thanks so much for “reading my mind” today. LOL
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Hahaha that’s awesome! I’m glad I could help! 🙂
Do you know how much of the thieves cleaning concentrate would for instead of the pure drops?
You shouldn’t mix hydrogen peroxide and vinegar in the same bottle because it makes toxic peracetic acid that can harm skin, eyes, respiratory system, etc. Just use one of the disinfectants instead of both in the same bath bomb.
Thanks for the comment. I should have read it first, but I will definitely just keep the two ingredients separate when using them. 🙂
Fantastic idea!
I will have to try this. Thank you!
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