White vinegar is a seasoning ingredient for cooking and food processing. Laundry powder is a cleaning agent. But the combination of them creates a very magical and useful effect for daily life.
Mixing laundry powder and white vinegar together creates a powerful cleaning mixture that is not harmful to the hands like many other chemicals.
First, prepare a bowl, add 1 cup of laundry powder or liquid into it, mix it with 2 cups of white vinegar and 3 cups of clean water, shake it and pour it into a spray bottle. That’s it, you have a great cleaning spray mixture.
Kitchen cleaning
The kitchen area, including the stove and kitchen wall, often gets greasy and is difficult to clean. Using this mixture, spraying it on for a few seconds and then wiping it can help you clean much more easily.
Cleaning faucets and sinks
Faucets and sinks are often greasy and hard to clean, which makes cleaning more difficult. Spray the mixture of laundry powder and white vinegar on them, then scrub them after a few minutes to clean them thoroughly. Then use a cloth to wipe off any dirt and make the surfaces shine. Laundry powder helps to clean, while white vinegar softens the structure of the dirt, making it easier to clean.
Mosquito repellent
Mosquitoes are a threat to many families as they can cause dengue fever. Moist places and many plants often attract mosquitoes. Mosquitoes can easily create nests, such as in drains. When you pour the mixture of laundry powder and vinegar into the places where mosquitoes potentially gather, it will help drive away mosquitoes. Laundry powder is alkaline, so it is difficult for mosquitoes to survive in this environment. Vinegar helps to kill bacteria and also makes mosquitoes afraid due to its sour smell.
Preventing and killing cockroaches
Cockroaches, rats, and ants are insects that often enter houses, even in apartments. They make the house smelly and even destroy food. In this situation, you can use a homemade solution of vinegar and laundry powder to spray into corners or places where cockroaches often appear in the house. This solution contains Sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate – the active ingredient in laundry powder, which penetrates the respiratory tract of the cockroach and makes it suffocated.
Cleaning balcony glass and windows
Cleaning areas with glass and windows that have many gaps is often a challenge in your cleaning process. Traditional cleaning methods may not completely remove dirt or leave smudges on the glass. However, after spraying this homemade solution and using a cloth to wipe, the dirt will gradually dissolve, and the window sill can be restored to cleanliness just by simple wiping actions.
Whitening clothes
When mixing vinegar with laundry powder to soak and wash clothes, you will be surprised at the unexpected benefits that clothes, especially sweat stains on collars and stains on armpits, will be cleaned better than using laundry powder alone.