https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/sooo-ot-some-i-hope-helpful-tips Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:56:42 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/sooo-ot-some-i-hope-helpful-tips#post-341659 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:07:28 +0000 Lynne 341659@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>:) another vinigar fan here, I have a big bottle in each bathroom and one in the laundry. Do remember not to use it on marble, as it can stain it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/sooo-ot-some-i-hope-helpful-tips#post-341636 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:48:49 +0000 Vani 341636@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I use vinegar and baking soda for so many things its not even funny. I add a cup of vinegar to every load of laundry, even use vinegar in my hair. Once I had an extreme case of gnats from some potatoes that had rolled to a corner of the kitchen pantry. I places a yogurt tub filled with vinegar and a few drops of lemon joy with tiny holes in the lid on the counter for a day - all the greedy gnats were caught and vanquished in no time. If vinegar was a person, he/she would be superperson </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/sooo-ot-some-i-hope-helpful-tips#post-341618 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:33:42 +0000 HeleenH 341618@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Isabel, you can leave the baking powder on while cooking, I believe that helps the baking soda dissolve the carbons that have formed on the inside of the oven. Apparently if you are real patient it will form a dust on the bottom of your oven, but I am not patient and just use a microfiber cloth every now and then to remove what will come off. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/sooo-ot-some-i-hope-helpful-tips#post-341609 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:23:44 +0000 quelinda 341609@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I make a paste of Dr. Bronner's Sal Suds soap &amp; baking soda to make a soft soap for scrubbing sinks, toilets &amp; the tub. I spray vinegar &amp; hydrogen peroxide on the cutting board to disinfect it. I soak perfume-y hand-me-down clothes in vinegar to get the smell out.</p> <p>The only "real" cleaners I buy are Seventh Generation laundry soap &amp; dishwasher detergent. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/sooo-ot-some-i-hope-helpful-tips#post-341605 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:17:51 +0000 Isabel 341605@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kim and Heleen, these are great !!! Coincidentally, I was driving home wondering if I could use vinegar in my hardwood floors without destroying them...thank you !! ANd I will try the exfoliation !</p> <p>And I LOVE the idea of cleaning my oven naturally. My little girl has asthma and those oven cleaners smell awful.</p> <p>Thank you again to you both !!!!</p> <p>PS _ I use Castille soap too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/sooo-ot-some-i-hope-helpful-tips#post-341512 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:49:34 +0000 HeleenH 341512@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Baking soda is great to clean ovens. Just make a solution of baking soda in water in an old spray bottle and spray in the oven. Leave it for a while and eventually you can just wipe it of easily. Somewhere online someone has made a complex explanation on the internet, but basically this is it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/sooo-ot-some-i-hope-helpful-tips#post-341477 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:19:23 +0000 Kim 341477@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Vinegar and baking soda are some very eco friendly secret weapons! I use strictly vinegar and water to clean my hardwood floors, nothing else needed. No footprints (we go barefoot around here all summer) and no streaks from cleaners.</p> <p>Straight vinegar for cleaning your counters after handling raw chicken. It kills the bacteria.</p> <p>Straight vinegar for getting the salt stains out of your leather winter boots (a problem here in Canada, not sure where you might live).</p> <p>Vinegar and water (or plain vinegar) for cleaning all the glass or shiny things in your house. You can add a drop or two of soap and use it for cleaning almost anything in your house!</p> <p>Baking soda does a myriad of things, but one I like is that I can use it to make my own facial scrub. Simply mix baking soda and water in your hand, and gently scrub your face. Be CAREFUL it only takes a bit, and you can easily do too much here. Less is more! LOL</p> <p>There are tons more tips on the internet, I've learned alot over the years! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/sooo-ot-some-i-hope-helpful-tips#post-341420 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:39:05 +0000 Isabel 341420@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have stumbled across some things lately that are so useful to me, that I wanted to pass them along. Please forgive me if this is a yawn to you !</p> <p>My children use re-usable aluminum water bottles ( about 4 a day ). They started to complain that the water "tasted funny" after I stopped buying an expensive fizzy powder to clean them. So I discover that vinegar and baking soda fizzes like crazy and cleans out the bottles and any after-tasted ( this is apparently true for plastic too ). Just rinse really well after.</p> <p>I was getting rust stains on our tub and on shelves from rusting shaving cream cans. Well, if you ring them with a couple of coats of nail polish, this will prevent it ! </p> <p>( I haven't tried this next one, but I will this weekend ; spray vinegar around your toilet bowl and it brightens it, kills germs, and odors. )</p> <p>I hope some one finds this helpful. : )</p> <p>Do you have any ? I am particular interested in eco friendly solutions - but I will take ANY suggestions to make "clean and odor-free" happen. </p>