Cleaning your home can be highly dangerous. Cleaning products pollute and can make you sick. But there is a solution. It’s about cleaning naturally. Here we tell you how.
Did you know that cleaning products pollute and can make us sick?.
According to experts, toxic substances responsible for generating all kinds of diseases such as allergies, skin diseases, dermatitis, psoriasis, or general toxicity of the organism.
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What potentially dangerous cleaning products do we usually have in our homes? Bleach, limescale, detergents, coolants, disinfectants, plungers …
Phosphorus, nitrogen, ammonia, and chemicals known as ‘volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are the worst environmental hazards in household cleaning products. And they are found in many things we use at home: Dishwasher detergents are 30% to 40% phosphorous; quite a few degreasers have ammonia; VOCs are in products to whiten clothes, to remove grease from dishes, in disinfectants for bathrooms; nitrogens are in floor cleaners …
And what can we do to avoid contaminating and getting sick? The solution is to clean naturally. A) Yes:
With vinegar
You already know that vinegar is a classic for cleaning, a wild card that will serve you for a multitude of uses related to disinfection … and at an unbeatable price.
Suppose you mix it with lemon juice and baking soda. In that case, you will have “ manufactured ” a powerful cleaner of all the life that you can apply on a damp cloth for tiles, toilets, faucets, greasy surfaces (combined with a hard brush or a scourer), mirrors, and windows (alternating the damp cloth with a dry newspaper).
A cotton cloth (old cotton t-shirts can be used) moistened with a mixture of water, vinegar, lemon, and oil will leave your furniture shiny and, above all, dust-free. Natural wax is also useful for polishing wooden floors and furniture and linseed oil for ceramic floors.
Vinegar is also an incredible ally for cleaning brass, copper, and, in general, metal utensils: they will shine with a mixture of salt, vinegar, and flour (which makes it not so abrasive), and you can apply it with just dampen a clean cloth. For stainless steel surfaces, just wipe them with vinegar and baking soda.
Another use of vinegar: mix warm water with vinegar and wipe it with a damp cloth to remove limescale encrusted in showerheads, kettles, glass dishes, sinks, or metal dish racks.
The acidity of white vinegar helps kill germs and is a very good degreaser. You can use it to clean different areas of the house:
In the bathroom: pour half a glass of vinegar into a bottle, add a little salt and a few drops of essential oil (to avoid the bad smell), and you have your cleanser. Rub the walls of the toilet bowls with a sponge and rinse by pulling the chain.
On bathroom and kitchen tiles: mixing cold water with vinegar cleans the tiles in the house. Also suitable for surfaces with stainless steel, wood, or ceramic.
In the crystals: prepare a container with a quarter of a glass of white vinegar dissolved in a liter of water. Clean the windows, dry with a soft, clean, lint-free cloth. Next, polish the glass with crumpled newspaper.
On the parquet floor: dissolve half a glass of vinegar in 4 liters of water and clean your parquet.
A tip: if you dare, you can make your own vinegar cleaning towels. Mix three tablespoons of white vinegar, one of liquid soap, and two glasses of water. Prepare some soft cloths and bathe them in that prepared. Drain them, and you have your whole house cleaning wipes.
Vinegar combined with baking soda is also a very powerful natural cleaner. Mix in a bowl baking soda and vinegar in equal parts and use it to clean your oven; you will get rid of all the dirt that you could not remove with regular cleaning products.
It is also a powerful pipe cleaner. How? Like this: First, throw in half a cup of baking soda and then another half cup of vinegar. If you see a lot of bicarbonate at first, make the pour in two phases. Wait about 20 minutes for the mixture to work. Prepare about three liters of boiling water and pour it down the same drain. If you see that it does not unclog, help yourself with a plunger. Repeat the process until the baking soda and vinegar mixture runs down the pipe and unclogs it.
With lemon
Lemon is a powerful disinfectant, and, therefore, you can apply it to the entire home. The first thing you should do is get the juice out of it and for that, use the grandmother’s trick: roll the lemon on the table to soften it and thus get more and better its juice. With lemon, you can clean …
The microwave: fill a glass with water and squeeze a couple of lemons. Put the juice with the water and the lemon peels in a saucepan and heat it in the microwave until it boils. Let it work for 10 minutes, and then clean the appliance with a dry cloth. This way, you will disinfect the micro and remove its bad odors.
The faucets in the bathroom, the kitchen …: squeeze a lemon and pass the juice through a fine strainer to remove the remains of pulp or seeds. Soak a cotton cloth in the juice and run it through the taps. Let it act for about 10 minutes, and then remove the juice with warm water or a damp cloth. If the water in your house is very hard, add a little vinegar to clean it better. You can also choose to rub the lemon directly on the faucets if they need a very deep cleaning.
Wooden furniture: mix a tablespoon of lemon juice with mineral oil in a spray bottle and apply it to your wooden furniture using a soft cloth. They will shine like never before.
The food cutting boards: pour lemon juice on the board and rub it with the same lemon. Let it sit for a couple of hours and rinse it off with water. This will remove the remains of food, disinfect, and remove the plastic boards’ yellowish color.
In the dishwasher: You can add a little lemon juice to the gel dish soap to enhance its degreasing power.
Lemon should not be used on floors, especially if they are marble or granite, but it does work very well to remove stains and shine tiles. For example, dirty tile joints can be cleaned by applying lemon juice with a little soap powder. The mixture should be applied with a toothbrush and rubbed hard. Then it is rinsed with water.
The combination of lemon with baking soda is excellent for whitening clothes that have been yellowish. There are multiple options to combine them; there are some: add half a lemon in a sock to the clothes once it is in the washing machine, soak your bleaching clothes in a basin containing water, neutral soap, a little salt, and the juice of 2 lemons or also add two tablespoons of bicarbonate to the water in which you wash white clothes by hand.
With borax
This mineral salt that you can buy in drugstores effectively cleans, disinfects, and softens hard waters.
Also, like vinegar, you can use it as a substitute for aggressive bleach. The toilet bowl is impeccable if you add a mixture -and let it act for 6-8 hours- of a part of borax with half of the vinegar.
Be careful because it can be toxic in high amounts, so take a maximum of a cup of borax with half of vinegar …
Remember that you can always buy cleaning products that are free of ammonia or chlorine to avoid their harmful effects both on you and your environment.
With pumice stone
Buy a pumice stone at any hardware or grocery store. And then you just have to apply it on your toilet to get rid of its stains.
With essential oils
Once you have mastered the classic vinegar and lemon in cleaning your house, you can move on to the more sophisticated phase: essential oils. And there, the tea tree oil will appear in your life, which will help you clean the bathroom and the kitchen counter, as well as for many other things. But let’s focus on the cleansing character of tea tree oil. Dissolve 25 drops of this substance in half a liter of water. Put it all in a sprayer and use it to clean the bathroom or kitchen counter.
You can make your own cleanser with essential oils. Mix one liter of water with one cup of distilled white vinegar and about ten drops of essential oil. Put everything in a container with a diffuser, and you have the cleaner that you can use in:
Floors: we recommend two options, lavender, which has a very fresh floral scent and repels fleas, flies, and mosquitoes, and pine, which kills germs and also repels insects.
Bathrooms: If you have glass doors in your bathtub or shower, you can clean them twice a month with essential oils. You can also spray the inside rim of the toilet with your tea tree oil cleaner. Leave it on for 30 minutes and then rub it in.
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