I've been told countless times that all I need to use to clean my hardwood floor is a damp mop and a little bit of vinegar and water. The Detroit News. That may be all right for other rooms, but I think I need something stronger to keep the kitchen floor clean and sanitary. Vinegar and water is an excellent combination that can be used for many things.
Salad dressings come to mind.
For light cleaning, use a nonammoniated window cleaner. Just spray it on directly from the bottle and damp mop. The key word to this tip is nonammoniated. You hear a lot of horror stories about wood floors being ruined by water. Yet some wooden ships lasted for hundreds of years, and they were in the water all the time.