How to clean the house quickly to welcome Tet without harming your hands
(Baonghean.vn) - With natural ingredients available in your home, you can clean your house quickly without worrying about harming your skin.
1. Lemon
When we think of lemon, we immediately think of a refreshing drink or a spice in every meal. However, lemon has many other uses.
It is an excellent disinfectant. Use lemon to remove oil, dirt, scum, and soap scum from tile surfaces. It also prevents mold growth and freshens the air. Therefore, lemon becomes a great alternative to cleaning chemicals.
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Use:
- Rub the cutting board with lemon after use to deodorize and disinfect.
- Mix 3 tablespoons of lemon juice in 400ml of water, put in the microwave and set the temperature to high to completely clean the oven from the inside.
- Lemon can completely remove limescale deposits in water pipes.
2. Salt
A super cheap cleaner that is always available in the family kitchen. It can clean the stove, bathtub, bathroom interior, even stubborn stains.
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Use:
- To clean and disinfect your sponge, soak it in a bowl of salt water.
- Mix salt into carbonated water, rub gently on the door and inside of the refrigerator before cleaning to effectively deodorize.
- To clean wool carpets, sprinkle salt on top, then sprinkle a little water, wait half an hour and vacuum clean.
3. Vinegar
Vinegar is the nemesis of “deep-seated” stains. It can handle all stains on mirrors, windows, bathroom furniture, tiles, floors. If you are afraid of the sour smell of vinegar, you can add a few drops of lavender essential oil to soften the smell.
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Use:
- Mix 1 teaspoon of vinegar into 1 liter of water, pour into a spray bottle to clean windows and mirrors.
- Pour a little vinegar on the bathroom tiles, leave for 10 minutes and wipe with clean water to remove stains and unpleasant odors.
- To remove old limescale in the sink, place a cloth soaked in hot vinegar on the stain for half an hour, then scrub with a brush and soap.
- Mix two tablespoons of vinegar in 1 liter of water to remove stains on floors after home repairs.
4. Olive oil
Used to effectively and safely clean expensive furniture. In addition, it also has a polishing and refreshing effect, especially suitable for wood or painted surfaces.
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Use:
- Add a few drops of olive oil to a cotton cloth and gently wipe wooden or leather furniture to polish it.
- Rub a little olive oil on bamboo and rattan items to prevent cracking and breaking.
5. Natural essential oils
Essential oils are excellent air fresheners and disinfectants and can also prevent mold growth. Therefore, they are a valuable source of natural fragrances that are great for cleaning kitchens, bathrooms, and household items.
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Use:
- Clean surfaces that are susceptible to infection with tea tree or lavender essential oil: kitchen counters, cutting boards, bathroom furniture.
- Mix 30 drops of essential oil with 5 liters of water to wash the floor.
- A mixture of diluted lemon juice, perilla essential oil, fir wood, juniper, thyme, mint, lavender, and pine can dissolve oil stains on the carpet within 3-5 minutes.
6. Vitamin C
Effervescent Vitamin C helps you remove stains without much effort.
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Use:
- Add a few effervescent vitamin C tablets and leave overnight to easily clean old stains in the toilet.
7. Toothpaste
Toothpaste gently removes stains, even on rough surfaces like terrazzo.
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Use:
- Polish old silver items with a little toothpaste.
- Toothpaste can remove ink stains, makeup stains, butter, coffee, tea on carpets. Just swipe toothpaste on the stain, wait a few minutes and rinse.
- To remove stains on wooden furniture, you can gently wipe with a soft cloth soaked in a little toothpaste.
- Use toothpaste to clean pen stains on the wall.
8. Hydrogen peroxide
Hydrogen peroxide has antiseptic and whitening properties and is quite safe, so you can use it to clean everywhere, even in your children's rooms.
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Use:
- Use hydrogen peroxide to wipe work corners, containers, knives and cutting boards to disinfect.
- Mix lemon juice in hydrogen peroxide - Tada. You have a completely natural bleaching solution!
- Soak dishes in warm water mixed with hydrogen peroxide to whiten them.
9. Talcum powder
Baby powder works quite well when it comes to cleaning stains on fabrics or floors.
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Use:
- To treat greasy stains on fabric, sprinkle baby powder, then cover it with a clean piece of paper and press something heavy on top, leave it for about 1 day. The next day, rub and buff gently and the stain will be gone.
- Use baby powder to clean stains on linoleum floors.
10. Raw potatoes
Potatoes are a perfect natural cleaning product. People often use potatoes to clean windows, tiles, and even vacuum dust from paintings.
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Use:
- To clean pictures, mash 0.5 kg of potatoes, pour into a pot, add 4 liters of water and boil, stir well, let cool for 24 hours and then use a sponge to soak in the mixture and wipe clean. Note to wash and wring dry the sponge continuously during the process of cleaning pictures.
- Cut a slice of raw potato, rub it gently on the windows and tiles, then wipe it with a dry cloth to clean the dirt.
11. Baking soda + mustard powder
Baking soda is also known as "baking soda" or "baking soda". Ingredients ofbaking sodaSodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) is white, soluble in water, and has good hygroscopic properties.
Baking soda is abrasive, and mustard is oil-repellent - the outstanding properties of these two ingredients make them an extremely effective cleaning and home cleaning duo. You can use them instead of dishwashing liquid, kitchen counter and oven cleaner, and even bathroom cleaner.
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Use:
- 1 teaspoon of mustard powder + a few liters of boiling water will help remove all stains caused by grease.
- Sprinkle baking soda on the carpet, scrub gently with a brush, then use a vacuum cleaner to suck up the dirt. Too gentle and easy compared to the hard work of washing the carpet, right?
12. Coca-Cola or Pepsi
Not just drinks, Coca-Cola and Pepsi can also easily remove dirt, even limescale and stains in showers, bathtubs, faucets, sanitary porcelain, tiles, ovens.
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Use:
- Boil Coca-Cola or Pepsi in a burnt pan to clean the pan.
- Pour Coca-Cola or Pepsi down the drain and leave it overnight to keep the drain from getting clogged with hair and dirt.
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