From rice to ketchup: 8 foods to help your home shine
Some foods can not only be eaten. Many of them also have other useful properties that are useful in everyday life. For example, to clean contaminants and give shine to surfaces.
Lemons and Grapefruits
Due to its high acid content, citrus fruits can be used to clean scale, soap or limescale. Lemon or grapefruit juice is a good alternative to chemicals. They do not have harmful properties, refresh and flavor the room. Cut citrus can clean the walls of the bathroom, the bath itself, faucets and tiles. For greater effect, the fruit is sprinkled with salt. After cleaning, simply wipe all surfaces with a damp cloth.
A solution of lemon juice, soda and vinegar will cope with more severe pollution. Unlike chemicals, such mixtures will not harm asthmatics and allergy sufferers.
Bananas
Fruit lovers will not have to sacrifice delicious pulp. After all, a banana skin can be used as a means for dusting, polishing furniture and cleaning shoes. The secret is that the inside of the peel is rich in saponins. Even without additional preparations, it will clean and high-quality shine on cabinets, polish shoes and CDs, and remove dust deposits from glossy leaves of indoor flowers. The used peel itself also does not need to be thrown away: it is useful for fertilizing house plants.
Vinegar
To remove greasy plaque, to clean glass, it is recommended to use white vinegar. It stands in every refrigerator, but is not always used. It turns out that with this tool you can even remove stains from the carpet and upholstered furniture. In addition, he interrupts all the unpleasant odors.
Pour vinegar into a spray bottle and spray onto the plane you want to clean. It removes not only grease, dirt and stains, but also wax deposits after certain chemicals. After applying vinegar, the room needs to be ventilated - it has a pungent odor.
Ketchup
The cleaning properties of ketchup have long been noticed by the hostesses. Copper products, pots, pans, kitchen taps will shine in a new way if you rub them with this sauce. Ketchup contains acids that dissolve plaque on the metal. Silver jewelry and coins for cleaning from plating pour ketchup for 10-15 minutes, then rinse with warm water.
Rice
Do not pour out water in which rice was washed or boiled. It contains a lot of starch, so this liquid can be used as a solution to remove rust, mineral deposits, dust and dirt. Rice itself is useful for cleaning narrow dishes. If there is no brush at hand, just pour the groats inside, pour some water and shake.
Olive oil
Simple olive oil will help to remove old stickers from furniture, to clean traces of gouache or ink, to make shiny handles of furniture cabinets. In combination with lemon juice 1: 2, the product is able to give shine to furniture instead of polishing agents. The undoubted advantages of the mixture: ease of preparation, the absence of a pungent odor and harmful impurities. Just do not pour too much oil, otherwise it will leave greasy stains.
Soda
Probably everyone has heard about the unique cleaning properties of carbonated drinks. With their help, you can really clean the seams between the tiles in the bathroom and in the kitchen, wipe off traces of felt-tip pen on the carpet. After applying dark soda, such as Coca-Cola, you will have to wipe the surface with a soapy solution.A colorless Sprite-type drink contains phosphoric acid, so it can even cope with complex stains and rust.
Black tea
Strong black tea can clean the glass well, almost like vinegar. Moreover, unlike the latter, it does not have a pungent odor. The cleansing ability of tea is explained by the content of tannins and tannin in it. These components clean hard surfaces, such as parquet, add shine and enhance the effect of dark wood. But for laminate flooring and light surfaces, black tea is not suitable, precisely because of its coloring properties.
Products that are in any kitchen will help you clean and tidy. They are natural, do not have harmful impurities and toxic odors.
