Here is another great use for vinegar!
You can use vinegar as a safe and effective floor cleaner for wonderfully clean floors. I love this method, because not only is it frugal, but it doesn’t leave any of that film that regular floor cleaners leave behind. It doesn’t even need to be rinsed.
To make your own vinegar floor cleaner, simply add one cup of white vinegar to one gallon of hot water. Remember when using vinegar for cleaning, that it always needs to be white vinegar and not cider vinegar.
White vinegar can be purchased by the gallon at most warehouse shopping stores, such as BJs, Sam’s Club and Costco. The price per use is so much less than using a store-bought chemical cleaner.
Another benefit of using vinegar instead of chemical floor cleaners and soaps is that the vinegar is completely safe to use around your family.
Increasingly in the news, we keep hearing about volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that are bad for the environment and bad for our health. These compounds are present in most house cleaning solutions that you buy in the store. In fact, I just recently saw and episode of Jon and Kate Plus Eight, the reality show that profiles a family with two six-year- old children and six two-year-old children. On the show, they had an expert come in who showed them how to use natural cleaner, such as vinegar, to clean their kitchen countertops. One thing they didn’t do was use the vinegar as a floor cleaner. Perhaps they didn’t realize that you could do this.
There is very little that you can’t use vinegar to clean, when it comes to non-porous and even some porous surfaces. In the past, we have talked about using it as an all purpose cleaner, as well as a laundry softener. Here, now, is one more reason now to stock up on vinegar.
Mary Ann Romans writes about everything related to saving money in the Frugal Blog, technology in the Computing Blog, and creating a home in the Home Blog. You can read more of her articles by clicking here.
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