Best European alternative to Windex Glass Cleaner?

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The Hat said:
There are plenty of alternatives to Windex in the EU and Ajax is just one of the many
but if you pop around to your local Lidl store youll find a cheaper product called W5 that will do the same job.

Thanks for the Ajax tip.. :)
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@The Hat : W5 is not the product, is the brand of the cleaning products made by Lidl. Could you please let us know the exact name of the product?

Is it the one in the picture below?

W5 Glass Cleaner 640.jpg
 
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Yes W5 are indeed many products, they even have 3 different Window cleaners ! :cool:

This is the one I use..:) W5.jpg
 
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Thank you. I'll go to Lidl again later today.
 
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@pharmacist @PeterBJ : I had a better look at the Ammonia I bought.

It is Ammonia for cleaning purposes, the label says "Ammonia Hydroxid 5-10%" so how much should I increase the Ammonia parts to be like "concentrated"? 3 (30%\10%) or 6 (30%\5%) times?
 
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Is Ammonium Hydroxide and water the only ingredients in the bottle, or is it some household cleaner containing other ingredients as well?

If you are in doubt, you could upload a scan or photo of the label showing the contents. We might be able to tell.

If Ammonium Hydroxide and water are the only ingredients. I would replace the 1 part of pharmacist's concentrated ammonia with 3 parts of your Ammonium Hydroxide. Ammonia becomes aggressive in higher concentrations, and could damage the print head, so to be safe I would assume the ammonia content is close to 10%. I would not exceed the 1 part in 100 of concentrated ammonia in the finished solution recommended by pharmacist.

When Ammonia (a gas) is dissolved in water, Ammonium Hydroxide is formed. This causes some confusion about naming the product.
 
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The label reads "Ammoniaca" (Ammonia in ITA) and composition is just: "Ammonium Hydroxide 5%-10%" . It should be just Ammonia

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Yes it looks like this is pure, but diluted ammonia, so I would use 3 parts of this ammonia per 100 parts of finished "Pharmacists Cleaning solution"
 
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