Vinegar’s Environmental Benefits as a Cleaner
The Christian Science Monitor featured a story on its website related to using vinegar to clean. The article focused on vinegar’s environmental benefits, as well as cost, as compared to other cleaning products.
Use Vinegar for Adhesives
Lifehacker.com (Australia) offers readers the following tip using vinegar to remove stickers: Use a paintbrush or paper towel to paint the area lightly (very lightly, in the case of a laptop or something sensitive) with vinegar until it soaks through the sticker or gets in around the sides. Let the vinegar set for a five […]
Use Vinegar for Jellyfish Stings
The Huffington Post.com notes that vinegar is the best remedy for a jellyfish sting, noting that lifeguard stations at Australian beaches all have vinegar in case of jellyfish stings. The article also notes that vinegar, alcohol and seawater are the top three things to help relieve jellyfish stings because these products contain acidic chemicals that […]
Cleaning Smart Phones
PC World.com offers readers tips on cleaning the screen of their smart phones. PC World says the main tool to clean a smart phone is a microfiber cloth and uses a vinegar solution as one option. To read the tip in its entirety, click here.
Vinegar as a Poison Ivy Remedy
KOTA News (ABC affiliate in Wyoming) offers readers a tip on their website for using vinegar if someone has poison ivy. The tip is noted below: Mix a small amount of vinegar with enough baking soda to make a paste the consistency of peanut butter. Stand in the shower to get wet all over. Turn […]
Use Vinegar to Put in Pleats or Take out Creases
The Mirror (Kansas) offers readers the following vinegar suggestion in an article “Aunt Norie’s Sewing Room” to put creases in slacks or take creases out: Pour some white vinegar in a saucer, dip a pad of folded cloth in as a sponge and wipe it along that line. Press with your steam iron. Usually just […]
Does Balsamic Vinegar Go Bad?
Ehow.com featured a story on balsamic vinegar with the title, “Does Balsamic Vinegar Go Bad?” Their answer? No. The article also shares other information related to balsamic vinegar and references The Vinegar Institute’s website as one of the sources for the information.
Use Vinegar to Kill and Prevent Ticks on Dogs
The Daily Puppy (website) offers pet lovers 3 ways to use vinegar to kill ticks: spraying a solution of vinegar and water directly on your dog; put straight vinegar on the tick or put vinegar in your dog’s drinking water. The tips are noted below: Spray A homemade spray solution of one part vinegar and […]
The Many Varieties and Uses of Vinegar
Heloise touts some varieties and uses of vinegar in a King Features Syndicate on Cantonrep.com (Ohio). Heloise notes, “We use different types of vinegar in our daily lives, such as cleaning and in salads.” She recommends distilled white vinegar for corn, pickling and household cleaning. She recommends balsamic vinegar for use in salad dressings and […]
Use Vinegar to Clean Dirty Paint Brushes
Lifehacker.com (Australia) offered its readers a tip to clean painting brushes with vinegar. The article notes that a “good soak” in vinegar will soften the bristles. It is also noted that “bringing some vinegar to a boil while the brush bristles are soaking in it will loosen up the paint enough that you should be […]