How to Use Lemons as a Cleaning Agent

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By nancysoffice
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Lemons are not only use in foods, but as a cleaning agent, too. Besides, there wonderful scent lemons has an acid, which can be use to disinfect and create bleaching/cleaning solutions for everyday household needs. You will never need to use harsh chemicals for your laminate counter-tops, cutlery boards, copper pots, solid brass, white clothes, and plastic containers.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

lemons
baking soda
salt or sea salt
water

Step 1

Laminate Counter-tops/Cutlery Boards-
Cut a whole lemon in half squeeze the lemon onto the counter-top, especially on any stains. On those hard to remove stains let the juice sit until you see the stain disappear. Then use the lemon as a scrubber working the juice all over the counter. Afterwards, rinse with warm water and dry the counter. Cutlery boards squeeze lemon onto the board, let it sit, rinse, and dry.
Step 2

Copper Pots/Brass-
Cut a whole lemon in half and sprinkle with regular salt or sea salt on top of the lemon. Rub gently onto the copper squeezing lemon as you rub until the tarnish start to disappear. If the tarnish stops disappearing add more salt. Rinse with warm water and let it dry or I prefer to dry it. Do not use on brass plated only on solid brass.
Step 3

White Clothes-
Mix 1/2 cup of lemon juice or use sliced lemons and one gallon of very hot water in a bucket. Add a few of your white clothes in the bucket let it soak overnight, depending on how bad your white clothes let it sit longer. If you use the slice lemons remove from bucket and then add clothes and all in the washing machine. Launder as usual.
Step 4

Plastic Containers-
Squeeze lemon juice in the container add some baking soda. Then use the lemon as a scrubber working it into the container or let it sit overnight before scrubbing.