Vinegar & Health

Today’s blog is not about books but is experiential instead. I am lightly chemically intolerant and Sunday I had to put my sick cat to sleep. We don’t know what was wrong with her so I decided that I needed to disinfect the house and all her supplies. But using the store bought chemicals make me ill. I was cleaning her supplies: soap & water, then bleach. The bleach was burning my throat. I use Oxyclean occasionally for my laundry but I was out of that and I didn’t know if it had any disinfecting qualities. I thought about vinegar, so I went to the Web to find out if I could use it. There at this wonderful site, http://www.vinegartips.com/, I found my answer.

1,001 Tips for using Vinegar: Vinegar will whiten & brighten your clothes, no more need for Oxyclean. It will keep ants from entering your home and fruit flies away from your fruit.
The surprise came when I was mopping the floors. I used equal portions of water and vinegar. I have a lot of mopable floor space. My house is 1459 sq. ft and has a relatively large foyer, so half or more of the house is stone tiled. Halfway through my mopping I was thinking that the water was awfully dirty and I needed to get a fresh bucket. But I was out of vinegar and would have to go to the store for more. Yet, as I lifted the mop out of the bucket the solution looked clear. How odd. So I took the mop over to the toilet and squeezed it and the color of the water in the toilet hadn’t changed; it too was clear. So I continued mopping. It seems that the solution just grabs the dirt and makes it go to the bottom of the bucket leaving clear solution for mopping. Then another thought occurred to me, since vinegar is great at removing hard water stains I wasn’t leaving hard water mineral deposits behind on my floor.

I’m off to the store now to buy more vinegar. I hope you found this blog useful. Please leave your comments here and log in to be one of my followers.

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