Lemons

Add zest to your home

Why Clean With Lemons?

Smell - The citrus smell of a lemon is refreshing and invigorating. For many people a lemon smell has come to symbolize cleanliness. Most major cleaners on the market today have a lemon or a citrus scented version for consumers to enjoy.

Acid - Lemons are acidic and can provide some antibacterial and antiseptic properties for cleaning.

How To Clean With Lemons

Copper - Clean copper-bottomed pots and pans with lemon juice. Copper fixtures can also benefit from a lemon juice cleaning. Cut a lemon in half. Dip it in some salt, and clean spots from your copper.

Add to vinegar - Vinegar can be a great cleaning ingredient, but many people dislike the vinegar smell. Adding lemon juice to vinegar when cleaning can help neutralize the vinegar smell.

Countertops - Countertop stains can be removed by allowing lemon juice to sit on the stain for a few minutes. Scrub the area with baking soda and watch the stains disappear. Don't leave the lemon juice sitting for too long. It can be powerful stuff.

Drains - Lemon rinds can be ground in the garbage disposal to freshen the drain. Hot water with a little lemon poured down a drain will also freshen the drain.

Bleaching - Lemon juice acts as a natural bleaching agent. Put lemon juice onto white linens and clothing and allow them to dry in the sun. Stains will be bleached away.

Vinegar

The natural all purpose cleaner!

Let us show you the many practical uses of vinegar. Clean, disinfect and shine for less...

Disinfect and clean wood cutting boards: Rub with vinegar to disinfect and clean. If your cutting board has deep grooves, you can also soak the board in vinegar for 5-10 minutes.

Cut grease: When washing greasy pans or dishes, add a few tablespoons of vinegar to your soapy dishwater.

Clean the dishwasher: Vinegar reduces soap build up, so throw a cup of vinegar in your dishwasher and let it run a full (empty) cycle once a month or so.

Clean the coffeepot: Hard water can clog a coffeepot and cause yucky buildup inside it. To remedy this, pour 1 cup vinegar in your coffeepot, fill the rest of the way with water, then run it through a cycle as usual (without coffee grounds in the filter). Rinse the coffeepot out. Fill it with fresh water and run another cycle without coffee to rinse the inside of the coffee maker.

Clean windows: Mix 1 cup vinegar with 5 cups water, and you've got a great window cleaner.

Remove pet urine stains (and smells) from carpet: Mix about 1/4 cup of vinegar to a litre of water. Soak a washcloth in the mixture and blot the area several times. Squirt the same solution on the area afterwards, this should deter your pet from messing there again.

Clean kitchen and bathroom taps: Soak a paper towel in vinegar then wrap it around your tap, leave for an hour and wipe away to remove grime and mineral deposits.

Clean and shine no-wax vinyl or linoleum floors: Mix 4 litres of water with 1/2 cup vinegar in a bucket, then mop or scrub your floor with the solution.

Clean the toilet rim: Put straight 5% vinegar in a squirt bottle and use it to clean the rim of the toilet. It disinfects, too!

Prevent mold and mildew in the shower: Wipe down tile or Formica shower walls with a sponge or cloth dampened with water and vinegar. The vinegar will clean the walls and inhibit the growth of mold and mildew.

Remove rust: To get rid of rust, soak items in vinegar (do not dilute). This will work on any metals.

Eliminate odours from clothing: Run a hot tub of water and pour in one or two cups of vinegar. Hang smelly clothes on hangers along your shower curtain rod. This should remove smoke and other tough smells.

Get rid of stickers, decals and sticky residues: Rub a few coats of vinegar on the area and allow to soak. Then wash off with a wet washcloth and the sticky residue will rub right off.

Polish patent leather purses and shoes: Place vinegar on a clean cloth, then rub over patent leather. Wipe dry with another clean cloth.

Remove food stains: Rub a small amount of vinegar gently on fruit, jelly, mustard or coffee type stains and wash as usual. No more stain!

Clean your spectacles: Place a drop of vinegar on the lens, then rub with a cotton cloth.

Get the smell out of your cloth diapers: Next time those cloth diapers start to smell, add a 1/2 to 1 cup of vinegar in your last rinse.

Polish your car's chrome: Rub vinegar on chrome to clean and shine it.

Remove bumper stickers: Soak a cloth in vinegar and lay it over the bumper sticker. Allow to soak a few minutes. The bumper sticker should peel right off. Rub vinegar over the area to remove the sticky residue, if necessary.

Sore throats: Next time you have a sore throat, try gargling with cider vinegar.

Hydrangeas: To keep your hydrangeas looking beautifully blue water them every 2 weeks with a cup of vinegar (white or brown) diluted in 5 litres of water.

 

Rid your home & pets of fleas the natural way

Fleas! There are several ways to go about eradicating these little parasites. Simply using vinegar, which is very acidic and extremely repulsive to fleas, works well. Apple cider vinegar works well to repel fleas both internally and externally from your pet and is great for skin problems and rashes.

Vinegar Treatments and Remedies

You should first use a natural shampoo or flea bath to wash your dog. You can add vinegar to your rinse water which gives your pet's coat a lovely shine. Be careful not to get any in his eyes or inside his ears, and let dry. Do this until all evidence of flea infestation are gone.

You can also try dipping your pet's comb in a cup with half vinegar and half water and slowly (and easily) comb the fleas out. This must be done until all fleas are gone. You may notice your pet's coat becoming more silky and healthier looking. This is a side benefit of using vinegar over the conventional and toxic products out there.

A Simple Dish

Apple cider vinegar also works as a flea trap! You simply pour the vinegar into a shallow bowl and leave it over night in areas of your home that have lots of fleas.
In the morning you should find lots of fleas in the bowl. Try this out every night until the bowl is free of fleas.

Ridding your carpets of fleas

Mix one part vinegar and 2 parts water in a spray bottle and spray onto your carpets and under your furniture. Make sure you spray your skirtings too. The mixture can be used to wash your floors too. Vacuum the following day. Repeat if necessary

Adding Apple Cider Vinegar to your pet's diet

Another treatment adds a few drops of apple cider vinegar to your pet's drinking water - just enough to do the job but not enough to repulse your pet. Most pets don't mind the mild addition. What this does is makes their skin (from the inside out) too acidic for fleas to feed or live upon. This is a great repellent and should be continued as a maintenance program.

 

Baking Soda

Otherwise know as bicarbonate of soda, bread soda, cooking soda or bicarb.

A paste from baking soda can be very effective when used in cleaning and scrubbing. A solution in warm water will remove the tarnish from silver when the silver is in contact with a piece of aluminum foil.

Baking soda is commonly added to the rinse cycles of washing machines (together with the detergent) as a replacement for softener and also to remove odors.

Baking soda is also effective in removing heavy tea and coffee stains from cups when diluted with warm water.

To remove odours from a carpet, sprinkle with baking soda. Let it stand for at least fifteen minutes, then vacuum. Repeat as needed.

If there is a smoker in the house, put baking soda in the bottom of each ashtray to keep away some of the stale smoke smell, especially in the bedroom.

Baking soda in the cat's litterbox will help prevent odors.

To quickly clean pets and remove "wet dog" odor, sprinkle with baking soda and brush out their fur. Baking soda can also be sprinkled in pets’ sleeping baskets or wherever they sleep to neutralise odours.

Children's toys can be cleaned using 1/4 cup baking soda in 1 L warm water. Submerge toy in this mixture (or wipe with a cloth dampened in it), then rinse with clear water.

 

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