Monday, 20 October 2014

Chemical Free Cleaning Saves Environment

Posted by Unknown at 13:26
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.

Baking soda, plain white vinegar and lemon juice will clean most surfaces in no time at all. These products are really cheap, and so effective. Pure vegetable soap and olive oil are also quite useful. Combining these products you will be able to make your home spotless, with no harm done to the world we all live in. Here are some great recipes for preparing home cleaners.

A simple paste made of a few spoons of baking soda and some white vinegar is great for so many purposes. You can efficiently clean your sinks and bath tubs, ceramic plates, kitchen stoves and all other similar surfaces. Rub all filthy surfaces with generous amount of your paste and leave it there for a while. Scrub away all the dirt using a wet towel. Rinse and polish, and that's it.

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.

The combination of olive oil and lemon juice is really good for all wooden surfaces. Put this mixture on a soft cloth and simply wipe your tables and cabinets. Everything will be shiny and spotless. Natural stone surfaces don't appreciate acidity, but can be efficiently cleaned with vodka or plain alcohol instead.




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