6 of Natures Finest Cleaners:
Did you know that you can clean your whole home with just 6 things? Well you can!
1. Baking soda: Acts as a scrub to remove hard water stains; polishes metal; deodorizes pretty much anything it touches (try stashing some in the fridge).
2. Borax: Mixed with three parts water, it makes a paste for cleaning carpet stains; mixed with ¼ part lemon juice, it cleans stainless steel and porcelain. (Note: although borax is a natural substance, you still shouldn’t eat it—and neither should your kids or pets.)
3. Lemon: Deodorizes and cuts grease on counter tops; rubbed on cutting boards, it bleaches stains and disinfects; combined with baking soda, it removes stains from plastic food storage containers.
4. Salt: Another natural scrubber—sprinkle it on cookware or oven surfaces, then rub; add citrus juice to turn it into an effective rust remover.
5. White vinegar: Deodorizes and disinfects; combine with water (and a little liquid soap—I know, it feels like cheating) to clean windows, mirrors and floors; use at full strength in a spray bottle to fight mold and mildew.
6. Olive Oil: Mix two parts oil with one part lemon juice and use as a natural wood polish. (Save the really good stuff for dinner.)
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I must have mixed the Vinegar and Borax up in my mind when I dumped a whole bottle of Vinegar in David's honda trying to get the red tomatoe sauce stain out of the carpet...well, come to think of it, at least the stain came up, the smell just stayed for days on end!!! haha, maybe an entire bottle wasn't quite needed :)
This is awesome Mo--you need to write a book with all the stuff you have in your head! My mom actually gave me {what a wierd Christmas gift huh??} three books, each on cleaning. One was on the many uses of SALT. One was on the many uses of DISTILLED VINEGAR. And the last one was on the many uses of BAKING SODA. Very interesting reading let me tell you! You can borrow them any time if you have a need to find out more on the subject of 'cleaning' (:
Have you tried cleaning with white vinegar? I mean, I was so excited about it that I bought a book called "101 ways to clean with vinegar" and a huge thing of vinegar, then I realized how awful the smell is. I can't recall if I ever tried it....maybe I'll have to search for the book and see about dusting it off!
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