2. Drain “Un-Clogger”
Mix vinegar with baking soda and salt for an inexpensive, chemical-free way to clear a clogged drain.

3. Mattress Cleaner
Remove dirt and stains from your mattress by blotting with a clean cloth dipped in vinegar.

4. Fabric Softener

5. Rust Remover
Just pour a little vinegar on a suborn rusty screw and it should come right out.

6. Hand Cleaner
Simply pour a bit of vinegar over your hands if they smell like onions, garlic, or if they are stained from berries. Then wash with soap and water to remove the vinegar smell.

7. Weed Killer
Try heating some white vinegar until it’s hot, but not boiling. Then pour it on cracks in your driveway, sidewalks, or anywhere else you want to kill stray grass and weeds.

8. Kitchen Disinfectant
Just pour undiluted vinegar into a spray bottle and use on all your hard surface.

9. Hair “Shiner”
Restore the shine by following your normal shower routine with a vinegar rinse {1/2 cup vinegar and 1 quart water}. Just remember to rinse the vinegar out with plenty of water so the smell doesn’t linger!

10. Nail Strengthener

Read more: http://www.simpleorganizedliving.com/2011/01/24/ten-surprising-uses-for-vinegar/.

Vinegar
The most frugal and versatile non-toxic cleaner. It is a safe and natural disinfectant that, mixed in a 1/1 ratio with water, can clean everything from floor to ceiling in pretty much any room, including mirrors and window. You should not, however use vinegar on porous natural surfaces like marble or granite.

It’s great at cutting grease. Iit’s especially good at cleaning up bathroom stainless steel fixtures and making them shiny. The vinegar and water mixture is also works as a stain remover on carpets and rugs!

Vinegar is also a great replacement for fabric softener in you laundry.

Baking Soda
Use Baking Soda to clean toilets, Just a few shakes around the bowl and a good scrubbing with a toilet brush

Hydrogen Peroxide
Great for cleaning areas that you want to be disinfected.

The mix of hydrogen peroxide and water also is great at removing certain types of stains on clothing. Dark stains, like blood, blueberries or other berries, or juice, come out easily when you spray them before putting the clothing in the wash.

Read more: http://www.keeperofthehome.org/2010/08/back-to-the-basics-frugal-non-toxic-green-cleaning.html/.

Silky Scrub
1 cup baking soda into a medium-size mixing bowl
1/2 cup castile liquid soap
5-10 drops of antibacterial essential oil, such as lavender, tea tree or rosemary (optional)

1. Pour baking soda into a medium size bowl.
2. Add soap a little at a time, stirring continuously. Stop adding after your mixture has begun to resemble frosting.
3. Mix in drops of essential oil.
4. Store in an airtight jar for up to a year.

Finally, all the tips and tricks of the at-home, do-it-yourself lifestyle are in one place. No more relying on others to produce things to help you clean, garden and keep yourself healthy.

Raleigh Briggs teaches us how to craft a sustainable domestic life outside of consumer consciousness. And it’s not as hard as we may think!

This hand-drawn book of charming tutorials is both fun and accessible. It’s full of simple skills that anyone can and should learn.

From creating tinctures and salves, to concocting all-natural cleaners, to gardening basics, this book is great for anyone looking to live more simply and truly do it themselves.

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