Washing With Vinegar

• Washing with vinegar is a great wasy to remove ink stains from your shirts and clothes. Simply soak the affected area in vinegar for an hour before washing the clothes in your normal way.
• Hard to remove grime on the collar and cuffs of shirts can be removed by covering it with a paste of vinegar and baking soda. Let it sit for 20-30 minutes and then throw it in the washing machine.
• Make your own environmentally friendly fabric softener by combining 2 parts baking soda, 2 parts vinegar and 4 parts water. Then use ¼ cup of the mixture in the washing machine just as you do for normal fabric softener.
• If you have ever scorched linen whilst ironing then you do not need to throw out the affected sheet or tablecloth. The scorch marks has be removed by covering the marks for 24 hours with the following home made solution and then washing normally. The solution consists of 1 cup white vinegar, 15 grams soap, 50 grams of fuller's earth and ¼ cup of lemon juice, mixed together and then boiled. On heavily scorched linen you may need to repeat the process, however this is generally not required.
• If your kitchen or laundry cloth becomes smelly or slimy then you can thoroughly clean it by washing with vinegar. Just let it soak overnight in equal parts of water and vinegar and then rinse it clean in the morning.
• The white salt stains and marks on jogging shoes can be cleaned by simply wiping them with a clean cloth dipped in a solution of water and 1 tablespoon of white vinegar.
• If you add a ½ cup of white vinegar to the wash cycle of your washing machine you can noticeably reduce the amount of lint on you clothes, thereby saving time later on.
• By adding vinegar to your laundry washing you are effectively adding a mild acid to the water, which has the effect of softening the water allowing the detergents to do their job better. So this laundry use for vinegar is particularly useful in regions that have hard water.
• When washing your family's clothes you can also add ¼ cup of white vinegar to the final rinse cycle, which will help to remove any alkaline detergent residue, reduce static cling and work as a natural fabric softener.
• When it comes to ironing your clothes make sure that you iron is clean and free from any mineral deposit build up. You can clean your steam iron by filling it with ½ white vinegar and ½ water and then make it steam until the liquid is all used up.