5 Cleaning Tips To Make Your Home Sparkle
CLEANING TIPS – Cleaning your home doesn’t always have to be an all-day event, trying to rub and scrape away the stains in your home.
It’s actually quite easy to get your home all shined up. All you need is some simple tips to get you going according to brightside.
Use vinegar to remove faucet stains – Hard water stains on your faucet could potentially be a breeding ground for bacteria. Aside from that, it looks ugly. Here’s how you clean them.
- Soak a paper towel in vinegar.
- Wrap it around the faucet.
- Let it soak for 30 — 60 minutes.
Remove tough carpet stains with an iron – These stains are hard to remove and could be a challenge. Here’s how you clean them.
You’re going to need: ammonia, hot water, a spray bottle, a stack of clean and color-safe towels, an iron.
When you got your materials, follow these steps:
- Preheat your iron
- Mix equal parts ammonia and hot water
- Spray the mixture onto the carpet stain and put a clean towel on over it
- Place the hot iron on the towel and move it around slowly to avoid burning the carpet.
- Repeat the process. You may require a few more towels, depending on how hard the stain is to remove.
Whiten old, dirty, yellow pillows with ease – Yellow pillows aren’t all that appealing an nobody wants to use them. But this tips can help you save them.
You’re going to need powdered laundry detergent, powdered dishwasher detergent, and borax.
Based on the article from brightside, you would need to follow these steps:
- Make sure your pillow is washable, afterwards, remove the pillow case
- Boil a large pot of water, stir in 1 cup of powdered laundry detergent, dishwater detergent, and half a cup of borax until everything dissolves.
- Pour the mix into a large container that could fit your pillow and add 1 cup of bleach.
- Soak the pillow for 30 minutes and flip them halfway
- Then run the pillows through a full wash cycle in a washing machine.
Whiten clothes without bleach – If you don’t like using bleach, then here are the alternatives. You will need water, lemon juice, and hydrogen peroxide.
Here’s what you need to do:
- Mix 12 cups of water, 1/4 cup of lemon juice and 1 cup of hydrogen peroxide in a large container.
- Add 2 cups of the mixture to each load of laundry
Removing sweat stains – Thinking about throwing away a nice shirt due to an ugly yellow stain? Don’t do it just yet, try these tips first.
You will need: a solution of dish soap, hydrogen peroxide, and baking soda.
Follow these steps:
- Combine a 1:2 ratio of dish soap and hydrogen peroxide in a bowl.
- Apply this paste to the stain, and sprinkle a little bit of baking soda on top.
- Get a laundry scrub brush (an old toothbrush will also work) to work the soap, peroxide, and baking soda into the fibers of the shirt.
- After this, let your shirt sit for at least an hour or so, and then launder it normally.
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