Running out of cleaning supplies? Made up your mind to use chemical-free cleaners? May it be for any reason, your search for natural ingredients to clean your kitchen is likely to end here.
Here are some easily available natural ingredients that could help you clean your kitchen in a toxic-free way.
Lemon
Lemon is a natural bleaching agent, a deodorizer and has strong acids that could effectively kill most of the household bacteria.
Its natural bleaching activity helps remove stains, cut through grease, and get rid of any tough marks in the kitchen. Its anti-odor property allows you to use it as a natural room refresher and floor cleaner that leaves a pleasant odor in the kitchen. Most importantly, lemons have low pH levels and hence are able to kill most of bacteria in the kitchen.
Cleaning surfaces with lemon juice not only cleans and sparkles surfaces, but also makes them bacteria-free. These properties make lemon a perfect kitchen cleaner.
Baking Soda
Typical properties of baking soda include cleaning, deodorizing, scrubbing and whitening. You can use it to scrub the surfaces; trust me, it works similar to a commercial non-abrasive cleaner. Its deodorizing action absorbs bad odors leaving the kitchen odorless. Place a box of baking soda in the refrigerator, freezer, trash can, cupboards or laundry; put it anywhere, it gives the same result.
Whitening is another interesting property of baking soda. Make a paste by mixing baking soda and water and use it to clean your sinks, floor tiles, counter tops and wash basins. You can also use it to unclog drains. Drop some baking soda down the drain, slowly pour some white vinegar, wait till it foams. Flush some hot water until the drain is clean. Water stains can also be easily cleaned using baking soda.
White Vinegar
After lemon, white vinegar comes handy as an all-purpose cleaner. It works as a cleaner, a disinfectant and a deodorizer. Mix equal parts of vinegar and water and fill it in a spray bottle. You can use it to clean most of the areas in kitchen. But remember, properly diluting vinegar is very important; else its acidic nature can either discolor or damage the surface. Test it on a small portion to make sure it causes no damage. Also don’t use it on marble surfaces.
Salt
Finally, here comes my favorite and easily available natural cleaner, salt. While its rough texture helps in scrubbing, using it in combination with other cleaning ingredients makes it a perfect cleaner. You can use it as a scrub to clean grease and other stubborn soap scum. Mix it with white vinegar and the solution turns into a powerful cleaner along with a deodorizing effect. A mixture of salt and lemon juice helps remove mildew and rust stains.
Benefits of using natural ingredients
Well, using readily available cleaners is little easy compared to preparing your own cleaning solutions. However, when the advantages of using natural cleaners outweigh your effort, isn’t it worth pursing? Of course, yes. So, let’s look at the advantages of using natural ingredients for cleaning.
The very first benefit would be healthier home. There are no chemicals in the natural ingredients, hence no chemical gets absorbed into your skin nor does it gets released into the air, leaving the air chemical-free. Secondly, you’re helping the environment by going green. Less chemical and less pollution leads to safe planet.
Finally, you can save money. Instead of buying conventional cleaning products, you’re using things that are already in your pantry. Isn’t it cost saving? Of course it is. So, what are you waiting for? Go and start cleaning your kitchen in a greener way.
