7 Ways Vinegar Can Cut Chemicals From Your Home

thedailygreen.com:

According to the Vinegar Institute, the useful stuff was probably discovered by accident (most wine drinkers know what happens when you leave a bottle sitting around too long). In fact the word vinegar comes from a French translation for "sour wine." Over the centuries vinegar has been produced from many stocks, including molasses, dates, sorghum, fruits, coconut, honey, beer, maple syrup, potatoes, beets, grains and more. But the principle is the same: you get acetic acid (a.k.a. vinegar) after first fermenting natural sugars to alcohol, and then fermenting again.

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Comments

[blood1]

They forgot the obvious: clean out the hard water scale in coffee makers! It works for removing gunk on brass fixtures, and anything with accumulation of hard water scale, including stainless steel sinks, toilets, etc.

[Badbone]

Vinegar can replace chemicals in my home, huh? So vinegar isn't a chemical? Typical greenwashing.

[blood1]

DUH! So is water!
When you get down to the basics, everything in made of chemicals, So it seems that you need to use something that has MORE than just the basic in them...or do you just use water and NO SAOP (cuz it is made of chemicals and fillers) for everything.

[squander123]

A vinegar solution works for getting those weird dishwasher detergent marks off glassware, too.

As for using newspapers to dry/polish your windows, this is one of the very few of my mother's many housekeeping tips that ever stuck in my mind. It works brilliantly, ten times better than any other method. My partner thinks I'm mad every time I do it, but even he has to admit that the windows are very shiny when I've finished!

[VanillaSeven]

I like apple vinegar and its benefits.

http://vanillaseven.com/

[wm1066]

Any vinegar causes nightime panic attacks for me, I am very allergic to acetic acids. I found this out the hard way...over months of confusion.­..I was even drinking diluted vinegar and honey thinking it was good for me ( ye olde Vermont cure). I was so agitated that the arteries in my temples of my head were dancing around doing a jig. Scary time in my life. Later I learned I was hypoglycemic.

[HeevenSteven]

When toxic cleaners are outlawed, only outlaws will have toxic cleaners..­.I'll give up my Scrubbing Bubbles when it's pried from my cold dead hands....l­ol.