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White Vinegar - Great Eco-Friendly Cleaner
by Kristin Miller
Description: Tips for using white vinegar for a variety of household cleaning chores.
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Is there any other "eco-friendly" and cheap product that has so many amazing uses? Here are just a few of the things I use white vinegar for:
- Laundry fabric softener - no more fabric softener sheets. We throw vinegar in the fabric softener compartment in our washing machine. Clothes come out clean and fresh and odor-free. Then I toss them in the dryer with those funky dryer prickly ball-things and our clothes are soft and cushy. Can't beat it!
- Cleaning shower heads - this may seem like a strange one but since I think we have "hard" water, we get crunchy gook on our shower heads. I put white vinegar in a ziptop bag and submerge the shower head in the vinegar - attaching the bag with a rubber band. Leave it there for a few hours then remove it, brush with an old toothbrush and it's sparkling clean! Nothing I have ever used for that works as well.
- A drop in the water when I wash my wood floors. I don't wash them often as water isn't good for the floors but when we had our house remodeled, I asked the floor guy how to take care of the floors, and he said warm water with a dash of white vinegar. Then barely moisten the mop. Works great!
- Washing windows - works like a charm. A drop of liquid dish soap, a little vinegar and some water. Who needs to buy all that garbage from the store that doesn't even work as well as this?
- Cleaning the coffee machine - run it through the coffee machine then do a couple rinse runs with plain water. Keeps coffee tasting great!
It's easy to start reducing the toxins in your home. Even if you just do it one step at a time. Plus - it's nice when being eco-conscious also means saving money and getting the job done!
Kristin Miller
Founder/President
Garden Girl Natural Skin Care
http://www.gardengirlskincare.com
http://www.gdngrl.blogspot.com
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