7 Things You Can Clean with Lemon Around Your Home!

Did you think lemon was something you squeezed into your salads or soups? Think again.  Household cleaning with lemon can be very beneficial. Firstly, it is organic and then it is cheap. The uses of lemon are many including, health, beauty, etc., but its effectiveness as a cleansing agent is rarely utilized by us. If you access all the home remedies for cleaning then a good majority of them will include lemon. There are many things that can be cleaned with lemon and very few that can't be.

Here are some home improvement tips for cleaning with lemon.

Cleaning With Lemon: 7 Household Things To Be Cleaned:

1. Copper Utensils: Many of your common kitchen pots and pans come with a copper bottom that blackens with filth and heat over time. You may feel why clean it as the food doesn't touch this area directly. For your information it is important for the copper bottom to be clean so that heat is evenly distributed while cooking. Scrub it with a piece of lemon and salt.

2. Brass Articles: You cannot use lemon to clean brass plated articles. They have to be solid brass or else it will erode. Statues, figurines, decorative items, etc. can be cleaned in this way.

3. Kitchen Sink: Many don't know, but cleaning aluminum with lemon gives great results. But just lemon will not suffice. Saturate lemon juice with salt so much so, that it becomes thick. Now lather up this paste with a soapy solution and rinse the sink. The lovely citrus smell it leaves behind will freshen up your kitchen.

4. Tupperware and Hard Plastics: Lemon can be used to clean good quality plastic above the marking of 6. To get rid of stubborn oil and food stains from Tupperware, soak it in lemon juice overnight. Scrub it with baking soda the next morning. It is also helpful in denaturing food smells. Do not try this with low quality plastic as it will erode.

5. White Clothes and Shoes: The uses of lemon as a bleaching agent is less know but it is one of its main benefits at home. If your whites be it clothes, shoes, or other garments have yellowed with age, then you can whiten them by dipping in lemon juice and sun drying.

6. Rust Stains: When you keep your clothes, handbags or shoes in contact with metallic objects then it may contract a rust stain.  The best home remedy for cleaning rust stains is to spray the area of the stain with lemon juice and dab with baking soda. Leave for and hour and wash.

7.  Glass Doors and Windows: The hard water stains or white patches on glass can be cleaned using the citric acid in lemon. Your french windows, mirrors and even your car windshield will sparkle after a lemony cleaning.

Resource:  Oneindia Living

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