13 Popular Foods That Can Also Clean Your Home
Did you know that some of the best ingredients for cleaners are actually hiding out in your kitchen as some of your favorite foods? These foods have special superpowers that allow them to make your meal better, and help you clean up the kitchen afterwards, too. Let's take a look at 13 of our favorites.
Yes, ketchup. Along with being most everyone's favorite condiment, ketchup can help with cleaning pots, pans, and stainless steel.
You can make more than lemonade when life gives you lemons. Lemons can be great for scrubbing copper bottom pots, cleaning countertops and bleaching stubborn laundry stains.
In addition to helping to start your day, coffee, specifically coffee grounds, lend themselves nicely to scrubbing your dishes without damaging them. They also work well in keeping your garden neat and tidy.
White rice is the ideal side dish for any number of recipes from around the world, but we'd wager you didn't know it's also perfect to help clean the inside of tough-to-get-into bottles or cleaning inside your coffee grinder.
This may sound like an urban legend, but yes, cola drinks can help to dissolve toilet rust rings. They can also help to fight rust and tarnish outside the bathroom as well.
Did you know that black tea is great for cleaning your medium to dark hardwood floors? It's been a trusted age-old cleaner for wooden floors, because it works! Tea can also help you clean your microwave as well.
Yes, the same white bread you use to make sandwiches can help clean your home. How? Consider using it to dust paintings, or pick up broken glass when that inevitable, unfortunate, cleaning accident happens.
Vinegar adds great flavor to some of your favorite dishes, but it's also an all-natural and green super cleaner!
You can:
In fact, vinegar can be used to clean so many things, we had to create a list of things vinegar SHOULDN'T be used to clean.
No one likes a smelly drain. Putting orange (and lemon peels) down the garbage disposal makes the drain, sink, and entire kitchen smell fresh and clean. You can even use older fruits that are just starting to go bad, so they don't completely go to waste.
Not just for cocktails, limes are a key ingredient in this all-natural cleaning solution that you can use to clean just about everything. Lime juice can also help fight clothing stains, or, mixed with salt, be used to make a cleaner for your pots and pans.
1. Ketchup
Yes, ketchup. Along with being most everyone's favorite condiment, ketchup can help with cleaning pots, pans, and stainless steel.
2. Lemons
You can make more than lemonade when life gives you lemons. Lemons can be great for scrubbing copper bottom pots, cleaning countertops and bleaching stubborn laundry stains.
3. Coffee
In addition to helping to start your day, coffee, specifically coffee grounds, lend themselves nicely to scrubbing your dishes without damaging them. They also work well in keeping your garden neat and tidy.
4. White Rice
White rice is the ideal side dish for any number of recipes from around the world, but we'd wager you didn't know it's also perfect to help clean the inside of tough-to-get-into bottles or cleaning inside your coffee grinder.
5. Cola drinks
This may sound like an urban legend, but yes, cola drinks can help to dissolve toilet rust rings. They can also help to fight rust and tarnish outside the bathroom as well.
6. Tea
Did you know that black tea is great for cleaning your medium to dark hardwood floors? It's been a trusted age-old cleaner for wooden floors, because it works! Tea can also help you clean your microwave as well.
7. White bread
Yes, the same white bread you use to make sandwiches can help clean your home. How? Consider using it to dust paintings, or pick up broken glass when that inevitable, unfortunate, cleaning accident happens.
8. Vinegar
Vinegar adds great flavor to some of your favorite dishes, but it's also an all-natural and green super cleaner!
You can:
- Put vinegar in your laundry to help whiten, brighten and soften your clothes.
- Use vinegar to kill weeds in your yard.
- Vinegar can clean your dishes.
- You can clean your eyeglasses with vinegar.
- Tough laundry stains are no match for vinegar either.
In fact, vinegar can be used to clean so many things, we had to create a list of things vinegar SHOULDN'T be used to clean.
9. Orange peels
No one likes a smelly drain. Putting orange (and lemon peels) down the garbage disposal makes the drain, sink, and entire kitchen smell fresh and clean. You can even use older fruits that are just starting to go bad, so they don't completely go to waste.
10. Limes
Not just for cocktails, limes are a key ingredient in this all-natural cleaning solution that you can use to clean just about everything. Lime juice can also help fight clothing stains, or, mixed with salt, be used to make a cleaner for your pots and pans.
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