HOW TO ORGANIZE CLEANING PRODUCTS

Whether you clean with chemical cleaning products or natural cleaning products and cleaning products you make yourself, it can be quite cumbersome to organize all those odd shaped cleaning product bottles and cleaning tools. Here is how to organize and store your cleaning products so that they are super easy to access right where you need them. And, did you know, you can also organize your spaces according to your organizing style? You can find out what your organizing style is here.

Before organizing your cleaning products, you must purge the ones that you do not like and the ones you no longer use. Be ruthless and purge the excess so you can more easily store what you do need and use.

In my freebie library here, I include guides which help walk you through the organizing process and help you decide what to purge and keep. I also include my declutter and organizing challenge calendars and guides to help direct you through each area of your home. These guides ensure you get through every nook and cranny and finally get to the other side of clutter … an organized and functional space!

In this post, we focus on how to organize your cleaning products. Below, I share ideas on how to organize your cleaning products with different types of organizing solutions that will work for your organizing styles and spaces. I also share how to organize cleaning tools here.

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Cleaning Product Organization

I make my own cleaning products which I share here. So, I store my cleaning product ingredients under my kitchen sink. And, I store my cleaning products and tools in my cleaning closet. I share how I organize these spaces in detail in my kitchen tour here and my cleaning closet tour here.

Whatever cleaning products you use, there are thirteen types of cleaning product containers you must contain and some you must make easily accessible while the rest can be stored to access as needed:

• trigger spray bottles (i.e. glass cleaner)
• aerosol spray bottles (i.e. oven cleaner)
• squirt bottles (i.e. toilet bowl cleaner)
• concentrate bottles (i.e. bleach)
• cream tubs (i.e. silverware polish)
• powder shakers (i.e. bathtub cleaner)
• powder tubs (i.e. oxygen cleaner)
• powder boxes (i.e. washing soda)
• powder bags (i.e. baking soda)
• pods/tablets (i.e. dishwasher tabs)
• wipes in bins (i.e. floor cleaning pads)
• wipes in bags (i.e. disinfecting wipes)
• wipes in bottles (i.e. leather cleaner)

Accessibility

Powder Cleaners

Some cleaning products come in containers which, once opened, must be decanted into another container as the original packaging is not resealable or easy to store. For example, when you purchase Oxiclean from Costco, sometimes it comes in a bag within a box, and the bag is not resealable. And, washing soda simply comes in a box. So, after a bit of time, the powder can clump if not decanted into a sealed container like this (found here):

Pods & Tablets

Also, decanting can make some cleaning products, like pods or tablets, much easier to access as needed if they come in a bag rather than a canister like this (found here):

Spray Bottles

You may have some trigger spray bottle cleaners you use exclusively in one room or area in your home. For example, you may have a spray cleaner you only use in the bathroom only or the kitchen only. This super handy hanger allows you to hang a spray bottle from it’s trigger anywhere you mount it whether that is on a wall or inside a cabinet (found here):

Bottled Cleaners

My favorite way to store bottled cleaning products (including trigger spray bottles, aerosol spray bottles, squirt bottles, powder shakers, and wipes in bottles) for easy access is to simply use a lazy susan that you can store under your sink or on a shelf (found here):

For storage inside a cabinet door under the sink or inside of a closet door, you can mount something like this (found here):

Another super neat option to use under the sink is something like this which rolls out (found here):

And to maximize space around pipes under the kitchen sink, you can utilize an adjustable organizer like this (found here):

For portability around your home, a caddy like this is super helpful (found here):

Storage

Other cleaners aren’t used as frequently (like concentrate bottles of bleach and special cream cleaners stored in small tubs) or they are purchased in bulk (like wipes in bags or floor wipes in bins) and can be stored separately from the other cleaners above which you need to access more frequently.

Large Cleaning Product Containers

You can simply store large bottles of bleach and floor cleaner concentrates directly on a storage shelf in your laundry room, garage, basement, or pantry. And, you can stack bins of floor cleaning wipes on top of each other.

Bulk Cleaning Products

Smaller containers of cleaners and packaging that is not easy to stack will store and stay organized much better if contained in bins like these (found here):

You can stand packages of wipes upright and contain small bottles and tubs of specialized cleaners.

And, if you don’t have shelves free for storage, you can utilize a narrow rack like this to tuck away in a laundry room, for example, and contain all kinds of bottles and packages of cleaners (found here):

I hope you found some ideas for how to organize your cleaning products for your organizing style and/or the space that you have! In my next post, I share how to organize your cleaning tools. Don’t forget to grab my free resources from my freebie library here. Let’s get to the other side of clutter … an organized and functional space!

Happy Organizing!