Grandma's Kitchen
Cleaning Tips from the
Ole’ Days that Really Work
By: Dr. Zoe L. Simmons
Every new month that passes by, a new commercial with a new cleaning chemical agent comes out. Before you know it, you’re spending several hundred dollars just to clean your home. What happened to the good ole’ days of just simple cleaning remedies?
Don’t fret, they never left, just merely forgotten. With more and more Americans becoming allergic to chemicals and smells, we are now going back to our roots of cleaning.
Here are some cleaning mixtures and remedies to solve your problems.
-Instead of buying expensive bacterial sprays for the kitchen, just put about 1 tablespoon of household bleach in a spray bottle, filled with water and use it to disinfect around the sink and counters. Especially if you have been handling meat. If you don’t like the smell of bleach, purchase lemon scented bleach.
-When your drain is clogged with grease, try pouring a cup of salt and a cup of baking soda down the drain, followed by a generous amount of boiling water. This will usually dissolve the grease and clear the drain.
- Use a cloth moistened with rubbing alcohol, club soda, or white vinegar to give your stainless steel a brilliant shine.
- To clean the stubborn stains in your bathtub, make a paste of hydrogen peroxide and cream of tartar. Use a toothbrush to rub it into the stains and rinse thoroughly.
- To clean those irritating coffee stains from stainless steel coffee thermos, just put a tablespoon of cascade and add hot water. Let stand for 15 minutes and stains are gone. This also works great on plastic cups used for drinks, ice tea and coffee.
- I hate coming out of the shower and my bathroom mirrors are fogged up. Well there is a solution to this problem. Apply regular old shaving cream to your mirror in small amounts in a thin layer and wipe clean with a clean rag. Keeps mirror clean and will not fog over.
I hope you enjoy these simple and effective cleaning remedies. The less toxins you inhale the safer you and your family will be. Safe on the pocket book as well.
Contributed by:
Dr. Zoe Simmons
Published U.S. Legacies July 2003
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