How to Clean Your Kitchen Sink Without Harsh Chemicals

How to clean your kitchen sink without using expensive and harsh chemicals.

Easy, inexpensive, "green", cleaning. Easy on your health, the environment and your pipes, septic system and your mind.

Keep your kids safe and don't worry.

Takes care of rust stains, hard water deposits, scuffs, smells, stains and leaves your sink sparking and smelling fresh.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Lemon Juice
• Baking Soda
• Vinegar

1. Depending on your level of hard water deposits, stains, rust, scuffs and drain smell, use one of the following:
   
   Lemon Juice
   OR
   Baking Soda
   OR
   Distilled Vinegar
   
   You should be able to get all items at your local store. Lemon Juice is usually found in the juice isle. Vinegar and Baking soda in the baking isle.

2. For keeping a disinfected sink that has a fresh smelling drain and no hard water deposits, drizzle lemon juice over the fixtures, around the edges and around the drain. Let it stand for about 15 minutes and then rinse it down. Use a scrubber to loosen hard water deposits.
   
   For scuffs and tougher stains, mix baking soda with water and make a paste. Scour tough stains out, then rinse.
   
   For a sink that has rust stains or needs a good deep cleaning, fill the basin with water and a third of a gallon of distilled vinegar.

3. Repeat as needed. I suggest lemon juice throughout the week, baking soda when you have scuffs and vinegar occasionally during spring cleaning.

Tips & Warnings

• You can cut down on harsh chemicals and increase space under your sink by keeping these few items on hand. Not to mention reducing the worry of children getting into dangerous chemicals traditionally stored in the house.
• Go green one step at a time and feel better about keeping the environment in better condition too.
• Always test for color fading when using lemon juice. Most surfaces will not be damaged when using lemon juice.