Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Cheap And Efficient Chemical Free Cleaning

By Patty Goff


There are hundreds of products designed for cleaning your home. Most of them contain various chemical substances that are not particularly helpful to the environment. Moreover, you need different cleaning products for your furniture, kitchen, bathroom, floors and windows, to name just a few. In fact, you can make your home immaculately clean using only a few things you probably already have. Chemical free cleaning is cheap, efficient and non-polluting.

All you need is a bottle of plain white vinegar, one pound of baking soda, one small bottle of alcohol, a lemon and some olive oil. A few drops of your favorite essential oil can be used to fragrant your new, home-made products. Using these ingredients you will be able to make different, highly efficient mixtures and keep your home perfectly clean, without polluting your environment in any way.

One highly efficient cleaning paste can be made using baking soda and white vinegar. This simple paste is great for dirty sinks and pipes, ceramic plates, kitchen cabinets and all similar surfaces. You should simply rub it on a stain and remove the dirt. Cover stubborn stains with this mixture and leave them covered for a while. After that, it will be easier to scrub the dirt away using a sponge.

This particular combination works very well when it comes to clogged drains. Simply pour baking soda in the drain, add a cup of vinegar and lid tightly for a minute or two. Fizzing mixture will unclog the drain. Rinse everything with boiling water and repeat if necessary. It's a good idea to do it once a week to keep everything running smoothly.

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.

Removing baked-on stains from your kitchen stove is sometimes hard, but white vinegar is simply great for this. Mix it with water and spray it on stubborn stains. After some time, sprinkle everything with baking soda, scrub and wipe off the mess. Sea salt can be used as well. Add your favorite essential oils in your mixtures and everything will smell great as well.

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 furniture can be efficiently cleaned, nourished and shiny when you clean them with olive oil combined with lemon juice. Put this mixture on a soft cloth and polish all wooden surfaces with it. Every natural stone, granite or marble counter top can be cleaned using pure alcohol or vodka. Make sure not to use vinegar on natural stones.




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