Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Cheap And Efficient Chemical Free Cleaning

By Patty Goff


You probably have all types of cleaning products in your cabinet. Most these products are expensive, bad for the environment and you need different products for cleaning your windows, kitchen or furniture. Using several commonly known natural ingredients you can make your own, chemical free cleaning mixtures, highly efficient and really affordable. Besides, these home-made cleaning mixtures are all environmentally friendly.

For making your lovely home absolutely spotless you need some baking soda, a bottle of white vinegar, a lemon or two, some olive oil and plain old sea salt. Using these ingredients you will be able to clean your sinks, bath tubs, kitchen cabinets, floors and walls, in short, your whole home. And you probably already have most of them in your cabinet.

Simple combination of water and white vinegar works great when it comes to ceramic plates, sinks, bath tubs and similar surfaces. If you add some baking soda in it, this fizzing mixture will be even more efficient. If you make a paste using these ingredients, it will work great on dirty pipes and more stubborn stains. The procedure is simple, just rub, rinse and polish.

The same fizzing mixture will efficiently unclog your drains. Put some soda in the hole first, add a cup of white vinegar and cover everything tightly for a while. Then, pour boiling water in and that's it. Sometimes it is necessary to repeat it, but it really works. This is also a very simple way for maintaining your drains in perfect condition.

Highly efficient combination of baking soda and lemon juice is simply great for removing stains from your clothes as well. You can also clean your silver with this same paste. Different types of jewelry, especially chain necklaces and bracelets made of silver should be left soak in warm water with some baking soda and they will be shiny again.

Different baked-on food stains can be hard to remove. Use the same amounts of white vinegar and water and spray similar stains with this mixture. Pour sea salt or baking soda on and scrub them off. You can also add different essential oils in this mixture, to improve the fragrance. Lemon juice can be used instead, but white vinegar is much more powerful. You can use it for different ovens as well, including your microwave.

Three quarters of water and one quarter of vinegar make really efficient window cleaning mixture. Pure alcohol is also really good for this, as well as vodka. Considering the fact that good vodka has some other appealing qualities you simply cannot ignore, use it for this purpose only if you don't have any other option.

Wooden surfaces and natural stones such as marble and granite won't shouldn't be cleaned this way. The mixture of olive oil and lemon juice is really nice for wood furniture. Put a little bit on some soft cloth and polish your wooden surfaces. It will make them spotless, nourished and shiny. Plain alcohol works great when it comes to natural stone.




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