10 Ways To Save on Cleaning Products By Using Vinegar.

How to Replace lots of your shop Bought Chem­i­cal clean­ing prod­ucts with White Vine­gar. It kills Mould, Bac­terium and Germs. It doesn’t give off any harm­ful chem­i­cal odours, it’s a lot cheaper and envi­ron­men­tally friendly .

 

White dis­tilled vine­gar is now thought of as a very pop­u­lar house cleaner , effi­cient for killing most mould, bac­te­ria, and germs , due to its level of acid­ity. Clean­ing with white dis­tilled vine­gar is a envi­ron­men­tally friendly way to avoid using harsh chemicals.

 

Wod­den Floors .

Hard­wood floor­ing pro­fes­sion­als will tell you don’t put any­thing on your floors but vine­gar and water. Mix 1 cup of white vine­gar with 3 cups of water. You already know to make sure the floor has been first. Then use the vine­gar and water mix on the mop head or, use a cloth soaked in the water and vine­gar . Wrap this around the head of a swif­fer. Wipe over and let dry.

 

Mir­rors and Glass  .

Add one cup vine­gar to 3 cups of hot water. Clean the win­dow or mir­ror well, then just before dry. Sprin­kle some vine­gar directly onto a clean dry lint free cloth and pol­ish, for a streak free shine. It works great on glasses too .

 

Dish­wash­ers.

As a rins­ing agent for clear­ing scum and lime scale build up, vine­gar can be rather use­ful. Run a cup of vine­gar through the dish­washer once a month to clean it and remove Soap scum. Switch the empty dish­washer to a fast cycle, let it run for around 5 min­utes, open the door and pour in the vine­gar, then just let it end the cycle . You will be pleased with how clean your dish­washer is. This will save on buy­ing de scal­ing tablets or using salt and vine­gar works bet­ter every time .

 

Cof­fee machines

how often you clean your cof­fee machine , you may need to run vine­gar through it a few times to com­pletely remove the stain build up . When you are done don’t for­get to run clean water through your cof­fee maker to remove any taste of vine­gar . Use warm water and vine­gar to clean your cof­fee pot. If the pot is really coated in film or cof­fee has acci­den­tally been burned in it. Fill the pot with water and vine­gar using half vine­gar and half hot water, leave through the night . the next morn­ing wash the pot in hot soapy water.

 

Shower Head Blocked With Scale? 

Scaled up shower head . Make up a mix­ture of 2 cups vine­gar and 2 cups warm water in a jug. Put the head of the shower into the jug of vine­gar and water and leave for a cou­ple of hours . If the shower head is attached to the wall. Put the water and vine­gar in a plas­tic bag and tape it around the shower head or use a rub­ber band. Let it soak for at least an hour. Spray some vine­gar on the shower walls after a bath or shower to rinse off soap scum from the tiles. An old trig­ger bot­tle is ideal for this.

 

Wash­ing Machines.

Replace your waste­ful and envi­ro­men­tally unfriendly fab­ric soft­ener with clear dis­tilled vine­gar in your wash­ing machine. It will soften the clothes just as good because, it is soap residue and scum that make clothes hard and vine­gar removes soap scum and residue. Pour the dis­tilled vine­gar into soft­ener com­part­ment wher­ever you nor­mally pour fab­ric soft­ener, ½ to 1 cup is fine, but don’t worry about over­fill­ing it . The vine­gar is de scal­ing your wash­ing machine any­way, so it would be hard to overdo it .

 

Clean­ing copper.

Did you know you can Clean spot­ted cop­per with vine­gar and salt? Use a paste made of salt and vine­gar. Pour some salt into a con­tainer and add some vine­gar just a few drops at a time. You are aim­ing to make a paste. Stir up the mix­ture, if it is too runny then add more salt. Now rub the paste onto the dull or tar­nished cop­per. Let it sit for a moment and pol­ish off with a clean dry cloth.

 

Lime Scale On Basins, Baths and Toilets .

Remove Lime scale on baths, basins, toi­lets. Just soak a cloth in pure vine­gar and lay it on to the lime scale stain, leave overnight, rinse and repeat if needed. Or, use a paste of 1 tea­spoon white vine­gar and 2 table­spoons salt. Apply the mix­ture to the lime build-up, let sit over night and rinse away.

 

Anti sta­tic for use with your Tum­ble Dryer.

Keep a trig­ger spray bot­tle with some vine­gar in it, near your Tum­ble Dryer. Instead of using anti sta­tic sheets. Load your laun­dry into the dryer as nor­mal and before clos­ing the door/lid, spray 2 or 3 good squirts of vine­gar on to the wash­ing . No more nasty static.

 

Den­tures.

Here is a Tip from a Den­tist . If you have any kind of den­tures, putting them overnight in a weak vine­gar solu­tion keeps them dis­in­fected and clean.

 

Dan­druff Problems?

Pour clear dis­tilled vine­gar onto your hair at the begin­ning of your shower. Mas­sage in and rinse off when fin­ish­ing your shower. Do this min­utes before you shower, then wash your hair as you nor­mally would, while show­er­ing. You will see a dif­fer­ence within a week or so. Let it stay on your scalp and then just shower your hair as normal.

 

Vine­gar can be used to safely clean just about any­thing in your home. It’s is one of the old­est cleans­ing prod­ucts. Just pour full-strength white vine­gar into a trig­ger spray bot­tle and you are ready to tackle most soiled sur­faces around your house . Hold the spray trig­ger bot­tle 15 — 20 cm (6 — 8″) away from the soiled sur­face, spray, and then wipe clean with a lint-free cloth or paper towel.

 

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