Many Uses for Vinegar

Got Really Smelly Dirty Clothes?

Your grandmother used to use a whole other set of cleaning agents and some of them are still accessible, economical and natural.

Vinegar is a miracle worker that most folks have long forgotten about. If you have smoke damaged clothing and just can’t get that smell out, try putting a cup of vinegar in the rinse water. That smell will definitely go away. Same for tar and nicotene odors embedded in the fabrics.

Who needs Fabreze when you ‘ve got vinegar. Why spend all that extra money? Dilute vinegar with about half water in a spray bottle. Spray the carpet, drapes, furniture, toys, whatever. It won’t hurt your fabrics and odors disappear.

Swamp Cooler Pads Corroding Too Fast?

Put a couple cups of vinegar in the water, every week or so. You will probably smell the vinegar for a few hours but that’s better that sweltering in the heat when the pads get too loaded with deposits.

Lime Corrosion Around the Kitchen Faucet?

Same old wonder worker. Soak some rags, packed around the base of the faucet, where the corrosion is. Keep the rags wet with vinegar and leave for several hours. You should be able to gently scrape away the corrosion with the blunt side of a butter knife.

Take Care of Your Iron

by filling the steamer with vinegar. Set the iron on high steam, face down in the sink and let it steam out all the vinegar. Then use only distilled water to run through

If your iron is in bad shape, spitting out stained water onto your clothes, it’s dirty. Do the same thing with vinegar only keep filling and running it through until the steam runs clear. Then run through a load of distilled water, to rinse.

The vinegar breaks up and begins to disolve mineral deposits, allowing you to rinse them away.

Did You Know?

Vinegar is a great hair rinse. It doesn’t leave your hair as soft as a creme rinse, or one of the other commercial rinses on the market today, but it sure gets the dangles out.

Use vinegar to wash your hands after digging in the garden. It will get out all the dirt and leave your hands unbelievably soft.

Vinegar makes a great window washer.

Slather vinegar on a sunburn to get the fire out.