Folk cleaning products

In our world, full of various household chemicals, we are increasingly thinking about the safety of certain funds. Is it possible to replace products with a well-known brand with traditional cleaning products? Will they be just as effective? If you think about it, before there were no chemical compounds to wash dishes or remove stains, but people did not eat from dirty dishes and did not go in stained clothes. Such means have always been, just modern advertising so persistently offers us innovations that we forgot about proven, reliable, and most importantly - safe means.

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Folk cleaning products

There are a lot of tools that are always at hand and can be used to wash and clean various household items - from clothes to the hob and even precious crystal. What exactly to choose washing folk remedies, choose from the list below for each specific purpose of cleaning.

Soda

Every housewife has this product. Its cost is small, so you can allow it to be used not only for culinary purposes. So, how can soda help us at home:

• Soda can be used to clean enameled and tiled surfaces. Both independently and as a mixture with mustard powder (in proportions 1: 3), it perfectly cleans dishes. Mustard degreases it, and soda acts as an abrasive. Such folk cleansers are absolutely safe for health and easy to store.
• Pipe cleaning. To clean the pipes, you need to pour a glass of soda and half a glass of salt into the drain hole. Then pour a glass of vinegar. After waiting half an hour, pour boiling water into the hole.
• Detergent folk soda is also suitable for the disinfection and cleaning of the toilet. To do this, it is worth pouring a handful of soda into it and pour vinegar on it. Leave the soda foaming for 10-15 minutes, then use a brush to clean the toilet and drain the water.
• To clean the oven, mix soda with water to leave a thick slurry. Treat the resulting surface of the oven and leave overnight. Wash the mixture with water and liquid soap in the morning.

Mustard powder

Dry mustard perfectly degreases surfaces and has long been considered a good folk cleanser. Mustard powder is used for washing dishes. Even without any impurities, he copes with this task perfectly. Other areas of its application:

• To clean and degrease the tiles, apply mustard to the surface with a dry sponge. Leave on for a couple of minutes, then rinse with water and wipe with a dry cloth.
• Mustard powder also removes oily stains from delicate silk and wool clothes. To do this, make a solution of the powder with water in a ratio of 1:10. Let it brew for about 2-3 hours. Wash clothes in this solution and rinse in cold clean water with ammonia.

Lemon or vinegar

Lemon juice or vinegar can replace a chlorine-based product. Only the smell of this washing folk remedy will be much nicer than regular bleach. You can use these substances for such purposes:

• You can get rid of lime deposits in the bathroom with lemon wedges. Rub the dirty place thoroughly with lemon, leave for a couple of minutes. After - wipe with a damp sponge.
• Vinegar is an excellent cleaning folk remedy for windows. Mix water and vinegar in a 1: 1 ratio. After spraying the solution with a mirror or glass, wipe with a dry cloth. Also, such a solution can wash dust from surfaces.It has dust-repellent properties, and dust will not settle on surfaces longer. The solution can also be made with lemon juice: 1 tablespoon of juice in 1 liter of water.
• Having made a weak solution of water with lemon juice or vinegar, you can wipe the floor. Lemon juice will perfectly refresh the air in the room. Also, such a mixture has a slight antibacterial effect.
• In half a glass of lemon juice, add 1 teaspoon of olive or flaxseed oil. Means for polishing wooden surfaces are ready. Using a soft cloth, apply the mixture to the surface and gently rub. Wipe off excess cleaning agent with a dry cloth. This will give the wooden furniture shine and it will look new.
• To easily get rid of scale in the teapot, fill it with vinegar in proportion to water 1: 5 and boil this liquid.
• Such a tool will help to clean mold surfaces: 2 cups of water, 10 drops of tea tree oil, 3 tablespoons of vinegar. Pour this solution into the spray bottle and treat the problem area. Wipe with a dry cloth after a couple of minutes.

Coca Cola

This is not an advertisement for the drink so famous to all of us. This is information on how it can be used for other purposes:

• This drink is very effective against limescale. Just apply it on surfaces that need to be cleaned of plaque, and leave for a while. Then wipe with a damp cloth.
• Having boiled Coca-Cola in a pot or pan, you can easily get rid of traces of burnt food.
• This drink will also help clean the toilet. Pour a small bottle of liquid into it and leave for a while. Then just walk along the surface with a brush and rinse off the water.

Salt

Salt is an excellent stain remover. And if some people use such a smile, then these people simply have never tried it:

• Having poured salt on a fresh stain of wine, you will make it not so bright and saturated that it will subsequently allow it to be removed more quickly.
• To get rid of old or fresh dirt on clothing, soak it before washing in saline for a couple of hours.
• A mixture of salt and turpentine will help get rid of rust. Stir them to a slurry condition and remove rusty dirt with it.
• To make your carpet cleaner and fresher, use fine salt. Sprinkle generously with salt on the carpet, then lightly sprinkle with water and leave for a couple of hours. After that, simply vacuum the coating.

Hydrogen peroxide and ammonia

These fluids are found in every medicine cabinet, but few people know that they can be used instead of bleach.

For 10 liters of hot water you will need 1 tablespoon of ammonia and 2 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide. Soak the laundry in such a solution for 20-30 minutes, then simply rinse with clean water.

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Helpful hints:

• A sponge that is so poorly rinsed out and is a place for the growth and reproduction of many bacteria can be replaced with a piece of fishing net. The mesh is easy to dry and rinse.
• So that the smell of cleanliness does not leave the toilet, take a tube of any toothpaste with your favorite aroma. Poke it in several places with an awl and place it in the drain tank.
• Air fresheners and fragrances are usually the most dangerous to the human body. They easily penetrate the respiratory system and can also easily cause allergies. To replace them, you can find many natural remedies. Turn on your imagination. Favorite essential oils can easily replace fresheners. Cinnamon sticks, dried orange peels, rose petals - all this can be a great decoration and act as an air fragrance.

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Whatever washing or cleaning products you use in your life, do not forget to read the composition on the labels. And if the remedy causes you doubts, then it is better not to spend money and not risk your health. Look in your kitchen cabinet, perhaps completely safe analogues of these funds are already in it.