Using bicarb, lemon, vinagre etc to clean.

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I've decided to try and be greener with regard to nasty chemicals around the house. So, I seem to remember quite a few people saying you can clean with bicarbonate of soda, lemon juice, vinagre etc.

But what do I use for what?

And in what quantity?

Please help a clueless wannabee-greenie.

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a bicarb pase cleans cooker and oven.
vinegar can be used to clean glas/shine draining board etc. also used it to descale my kettle the other day
lemon and bicarb can be used together to clean grease off kitchen sides, toilet bowl etc
this site is full of tips

Am very much not an expert here, but vinegar is excellent for cleaning tiles and taps - it gets the limescale off very easily. I buy cheap white vinegar in France, where a big bottle costs about 10p, but I've noticed the local pound shop now sells it in squirty bottles.

My mum recommends cleaning the fridge with damp bicarb on a cloth, as it doesn't taint the fridge like proprietary cleaners might. On a home makeover programme, I saw someone make a paste from bicarb, which they used to clean mouldy grouting and shower curtains.

Someone will be along in a minute with more and better ideas ....

Vinegar instead of softener in the washing machine.

Vinegar diluted in water and put in a spray bottle for cleaning windows.

Ditto but mixed with a bit of bicarbonate and a few drops of lavender/citrus/tea treee oil as a multi purpose cleaner.

Bicarb directly on a wet sponge as a scourer for sinks, pans, ovens.

Substitute half the dose of washing powder with bicarb for a white wash, or indeed any wash. Ditto washing soda, although it's not good on delicates. Or even soap nuts for hotter washes.

I'm not really a lemon juice expert as it involves getting around to squeezing lemons, which I'm far too lazy to do, but I know it works as a stain remover on clothes. Dabbing lemon juice or vinegar on a grease stain helsp get rid of it, and vinegar is good for pongy underarms too.

Thanks. And at my double mis-spelling of vinegar. (I blame the parents).