Vinegar has many uses and is a versatile natural product that can be used through out your home. Vinegar can disinfect, preserve and heal.
All vinegar starts as alcohol, which is created through the conversion of carbohydrates to sugar. When alcohol ferments, it becomes acetic acid, or vinegar. For example, a bunch of grapes deteriorates to become wine (alcohol) and then wine ferments into wine vinegar. This is pretty impressive considering vinegar is a byproduct of something gone bad.
Your kitchen, for example, is probably one of the hardest rooms to keep clean, with all the foot traffic, greasy pans, and spills. Vinegar is an indispensable tool for your kitchen because it can clean practically any surface. From coffeemakers, to dishwashers and everything in between, vinegar will clean better than any other chemical commercial product for a fraction of the cost.
With this series of “how-to’s” with vinegar we plan on giving you practical do-it-yourself techniques to help you clean your home, clean your laundry, cure some ailments such as hay fever, rashes, and heartburn, along with a few home improvement tips and tricks and much more.
To get started, bellow is a recipe for a multipurpose home cleaner. With this simple mixture, you can get rid of all those harmful, expensive cleaning chemicals. You can use this mixture on virtually any surface for daily cleaning. It is especially good for cleaning stove tops, counter tops, and ovens.
What you will need:
- 1 teaspoon of borax
- 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
- 2 teaspoons of vinegar
- 1/4 teaspoon liquid dish soap
- 2 cups of hot water
Prepare the mixture and store it in a clean spray bottle. You might want to recycle an old spray bottle from one of the commercial cleaners. To do this make sure to rinse the bottle at least 3 times to clean out the remaining chemicals from the old cleaner. Or you can purchase a new spray bottle at most hardware stores. Make sure to clearly label the bottle and attach a list of ingredients.
You can use this cleaner through out your home on any hard surface. Keep in mind that it is mildly abrasive due to the baking soda so use it carefully on easily damaged hard surfaces such as wood and glass.
* Whenever vinegar is called for through out this series, use distilled white vinegar. If other types of vinegar are called for, the specific types are noted.
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