Thursday, January 16, 2014

The Best Cleaning Tips


Rubbing Alcohol for Cleaning

Instead of throwing away citrus peels, run them through the garbage disposal.  Not only does it deodorize and clean the garbage disposal, it makes your kitchen smell fresh!

Put rubbing alcohol in your mopping water to disinfect and make your floors shine like new.

Rubbing alcohol is also great for streaky stainless steel.  It will clean and remove smudges and fingerprints from refrigerators easily.

Most bottles of rubbing alcohol can be topped with generic bottle sprayers you can buy at the store.  Just screw one on and use as a cleaner for anything.  It's great for bathroom mirrors, windows, and kitchens as it kills bacteria and dries streak free!

Vinegar for Cleaning

The main component of vinegar is acetic acid. This makes it an excellent cleaning agent as it easily removes residues, dissolves mineral deposits, and is effective at eliminating 99.9% of bacterial like most other household products.  The best part is it's environmentally-friendly, safe, insanely inexpensive and can also be used in cooking.  Not to mention when mixed with baking soda you can make a volcano!

Seal orange peels and vinegar in a mason jar for two weeks to make a scented cleaner.  Not only does this make the smell of vinegar less harsh, it also takes on the excellent cleaning properties of citrus.  You could also do this with any other type of citrus and/or herb mixture.  Personally, my favorite is orange with a few cinnamon sticks.

Run your dishwasher empty with 2 cups of vinegar to clean out the residue.  You can also fill the Jet Dry compartment with vinegar.  It works better than solutions you buy and costs only pennies.

Remove rust by submerging affected area in diluted vinegar for a few hours.

Put a half cup of vinegar and two cups of water in your electric teakettle.  Heat through one heating cycle, let sit and cool, then rinse and wipe dry to make it good as new with no scrubbing.


Soak your shower head in vinegar to clean it up.  If you have trouble unscrewing it try putting vinegar in a plastic back and zip tying it around your shower head.  In as little as an hour it will look brand new!  I soaked mine overnight because the build-up on it was pretty bad.