At the everyday dose of 10ml (1 capful) per litre of water, 1L of concentrate makes 100 litres of ready to use cleaner, which fills about 100 standard 1 litre spray bottles. Decant into the 500ml Starter Pack bottle at 5ml (half a capful) and the same litre fills about 200 of them.
The short answer, with the actual maths
The number of spray bottles you get from 1L of concentrate is pure arithmetic once you know two things: the dilution rate (how much concentrate per litre of water) and the size of your spray bottle. Everything else is marketing. Here is how it works.
One litre of concentrate is 1000ml. If you dose it at 10ml (1 capful) of concentrate per litre of water, then 1000ml divided by 10ml gives you 100 litres of ready to use cleaner. Fill standard 1 litre trigger bottles and that is 100 bottles. Decant into 500ml bottles instead and the same 100 litres fills 200 of them. Dose heavier and you fill fewer. That is the whole formula, and once you see it you can work out any product on any shelf.
HomeKind All in One Cleaner Concentrate is designed around an everyday dose of 10ml (1 capful) per litre of water, which is why we say one 1L bottle makes up to 100 spray bottles. That figure uses a full 1 litre trigger bottle and a sensible everyday dose, so it is a count you can genuinely hit in normal use. Use the 500ml Starter Pack bottle at 5ml (half a capful) and the same litre fills about 200 of them.
We run a cleaning business, so this is not theory for us. The litres per bottle and cost per bottle below are the same numbers we work to when we stock a van for a week of jobs, which is exactly why we built the product around a dose that is easy to mix and easy to quote.
The formula you can reuse for any concentrate
Commit this to memory and you will never be fooled by a "makes up to X bottles" claim again:
Bottles made = (1000ml of concentrate ÷ dose in ml per litre) ÷ (bottle size in litres)
Worked example at the everyday standard dose, in a 1 litre bottle:
- 1000ml ÷ 10ml dose = 100 litres of finished cleaner
- 100 litres ÷ 1L bottle = 100 spray bottles
And the same concentrate decanted into 500ml bottles:
- 100 litres ÷ 0.5L bottle = 200 spray bottles
Both are correct. The only thing that changed is the bottle you decant into. This is exactly why "how many bottles" answers vary so much across the internet, and why an honest answer has to state the dose and the bottle size every time. We lead with the 1 litre bottle figure because that is the more conservative, true to life count for most homes.
The full breakdown table
This table assumes a 1L (1000ml) bottle of concentrate and shows what you get at each of the main HomeKind dilution rates, across the two most common trigger bottle sizes. The cost column uses the single bottle price of $39.99, so you can judge value before you buy.
| Use case | Dose per litre of water | Litres of cleaner from 1L | 500ml bottles | 1L bottles | Approx cost per 1L bottle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Everyday (benches, appliances, glass, mirrors) | 10ml (1 capful) | 100L | 200 | 100 | about 40c |
| Heavy (bathroom, grease, grime) | 15ml (1.5 capfuls) | about 67L | about 133 | about 67 | about 60c |
| Heavy, maximum (built up soil) | 20ml (2 capfuls) | 50L | 100 | 50 | about 80c |
Read it like this: at the everyday standard dose in a 1 litre bottle, 1L of concentrate makes around 100 bottles of spray, and a 500ml Starter Pack bottle of finished spray costs roughly 20c. The headline figure we use across the site is about 40c per made up 1 litre bottle at the everyday 10ml (1 capful) per litre of water, or 35c on the two bottle pack and 33c on the three bottle pack. Compare any of these to a typical ready mixed supermarket spray in the $4 to $7 range and the per bottle gap is the whole reason concentrates exist.
Why the "up to 100 bottles" figure is the honest middle
You will notice the table shows numbers as high as 200 bottles and as low as 50. We quote "up to 100 spray bottles per 1L bottle" because it sits on the realistic everyday dose (10ml (1 capful) per litre of water) using a full 1 litre trigger bottle, which is what most households reach for. It is a figure you can actually hit in normal use, not a best case that only works if you dose at the absolute minimum into the smallest bottle.
Plenty of products quote the biggest number a calculator can justify. We would rather you mix a spray that genuinely works on the day, and still land well over a year of cleaning from a single bottle. If you decant into 500ml bottles, you will simply get more bottles than the headline, which is the right direction for a claim to err.
How to measure your dose accurately
Getting the count you expect depends on dosing correctly, and most people overpour. Concentrate is potent, so a heavy hand both wastes product and can leave residue. Here is how to be precise.
Step by step for a 500ml spray bottle
- Fill the empty spray bottle with cool tap water first, leaving a small gap at the top. Adding water first means less foaming.
- For a 500ml bottle at the everyday standard dose, add 5ml (half a capful) of concentrate, which is half the 10ml (1 capful) per litre of water rate because the bottle is half a litre.
- Half a capful is 5ml, so the cap on the bottle is all the measure you need.
- Cap the bottle and invert it gently two or three times. Do not shake hard.
- Label the bottle with the scent and dose so the next person mixes it the same way.
A quick dose reference
- Half a capful is 5ml, the everyday dose for the 500ml Starter Pack bottle
- 1 capful is 10ml, the everyday dose for a litre of water
- 1 to 2 capfuls (10 to 20ml) per litre of water handles heavy jobs
- 2 to 3 capfuls (20 to 30ml) go in a mop bucket
Because the cap measures 10ml, you get the counts in the table without any extra gear.
How long 1L actually lasts you
Bottles made is one way to picture value. Time is the other, and it is often more useful. If an average household refills a 500ml all purpose spray maybe once a fortnight, then 200 bottles from a single 1L concentrate at the everyday dose is, in plain terms, several years of all purpose spray from one purchase.
In reality you will spread that litre across more than one job. Some goes into your glass and mirror spray, some into a bathroom bottle, some into a floor bucket. Because HomeKind replaces your all purpose, glass, bathroom and floor cleaners with one concentrate, the litre stretches across what used to be four separate products. That is the part the bottle count alone does not capture: you are not just buying cheaper spray, you are buying back cupboard space and skipping three other purchases. Put another way, the question "how long does it last" is really four questions rolled into one, and a single 1L bottle answers all of them at once.
Floors and buckets: a different calculation
The spray bottle maths assumes a fine trigger spray. Floors are mopped, not sprayed, so the dose is measured per bucket instead. HomeKind floors use 20 to 30ml (2 to 3 capfuls) per mop bucket (a standard mop bucket is around 8 to 10 litres of water).
At 25ml (two and a half capfuls) per bucket, 1L of concentrate makes about 40 buckets of mopping solution. For most homes that is a year or more of floor washing from the same single bottle you are also using for sprays. If you mop heavily or have a large home, count on the higher end of the dose and a touch fewer buckets. From the cleaning jobs we do, a single average home rarely needs more than one full bucket a week even with kids and pets through the place, so 40 buckets genuinely stretches across the better part of a year. Because the formula is greywater and septic safe, the rinse water is not a problem for homes on tank or septic systems, which matters a lot across regional Australia, and you can tip a finished bucket onto the garden without a second thought.
Glass and mirrors: where concentrate value gets quietly bigger
Most all purpose cleaners are not streak free on glass, so people buy a separate glass cleaner. That second bottle is an extra purchase that never shows up in an all purpose "bottles made" figure. HomeKind is formulated to be streak free on glass and mirrors at the light everyday dose, which means the same 1L you are already counting also replaces your glass cleaner.
For glass, mix at the everyday 10ml (1 capful) per litre of water, spray lightly, and finish with a clean dry microfibre or a flat weave glass cloth. A light mist is both more economical and cleaner on glass.
When this is not the right fix
Concentrate maths is honest, but it is not magic. A few situations where the headline bottle count is not the point:
- Heavy degreasing or oven baked carbon. An everyday all in one cleaner, even diluted heavy, is not a dedicated oven or grill product. Use the right specialist tool for those jobs rather than overdosing the concentrate.
- Disinfection claims. Cleaning and disinfecting are different things. A plant based cleaner lifts and removes soil, grease and grime well, but if you specifically need to sanitise (for example after raw meat), follow proper disinfection guidance separately.
- Unsealed natural stone and raw timber. HomeKind is fine on sealed stone and sealed floors. Porous unsealed surfaces are best left to products made for them.
- You only clean rarely. If you genuinely use very little cleaner, the per bottle saving is real but small in dollar terms. The bigger win there is fewer plastic bottles and fewer trips down the cleaning aisle.
Honest framing matters: the value of a concentrate is real, but it is strongest for people who clean regularly and currently buy several different ready mixed sprays.
How to compare any two concentrates fairly
If you are weighing up products, do not compare shelf prices, compare cost per litre of finished cleaner. Use the formula above on each one:
- Find the recommended everyday dose per litre on the label.
- Divide 1000ml by that dose to get litres of finished cleaner per litre of concentrate.
- Divide the concentrate price by that litre count to get cost per litre of usable spray.
A cheaper bottle that wants 30ml per litre can easily cost more per usable litre than a dearer bottle that only needs 10ml. The dose is where the real economics live, which is exactly why we publish the full dilution range rather than a single flattering number. If you want this laid out in detail, see our breakdown of concentrate versus ready to use cost.
The HomeKind specifics
HomeKind All in One Cleaner Concentrate is a 1L plant based, enzyme activated formula (protease, amylase and lipase) that replaces all purpose, glass, bathroom and floor cleaners in one bottle. It is streak free on glass and mirrors, safe on kitchens, bathrooms, tiles, floors, glass, stainless steel, sealed stone, benchtops and appliances, and it is greywater and septic safe. There are no synthetic dyes, phosphates, parabens or SLS, and it is not tested on animals. The bottle is recyclable plastic.
It comes in two scents on the same formula right now, Lemon Myrtle + Eucalyptus and Mandarin Peel + Rosemary, with Peppermint + Pine Needle and Fragrance Free back soon. You can mix scents across the bundles. It is in stock: order by 2pm on a business day and we post it the same day. For more on getting your ratios right, see how to mix your concentrate and the full dilution rates chart.
