Compile this list with my previous list of 45 Uses for Vinegar and you now have 95! I am pretty sure that none of them have been repeated, but if 1 or 2 mix between the two, I am sorry!
Also, check out my posts 40 Uses for Baking Soda and 20 Uses for Original Blue Dawn.
You may not like the smell of vinegar, I mean I know no one who does. So here is a tip to help the smell...
Save orange, lemon or lime peels and put them in a glass jar. Fill with vinegar and let it sit for a couple weeks. Strain it out and you have citrus smelling vinegar. It doesn’t smell like regular vinegar so no yucky smell. It makes everything smell good.
- Make fluffier pancakes by adding 2 TB of vinegar
- Clean dirt off your computer and mouse with a little vinegar and a q tip
- Treat stained Tupperware stains with vinegar
- Wipe away mildew
- Clean and polish chrome and stainless steel
- Clean your drains with vinegar and baking soda
- Erase ballpoint-pen marks
- Erase crayon marks from clothes
- Boil better eggs by adding 2 TB vinegar to the water – keeps them from cracking
- Disinfect cutting boards
- Restore wood paneling
- Remove carpet stains
- Keep car windows frost free
- Remove candle wax
- Pamper your skin by blotting it on with a cotton ball
- Get rid of water lines on furniture
- Freshen your kitchen
- Trap fruit flies by placing some in a small bowl
- Wash out your washing machine and dishwasher with 1/2 cup
- Wash away mildew from your shower curtain
- Put the sparkle back in your china
- Remove mineral deposits from shower heads
- Whiten your grout
- Clean a coffee maker
- Treat a bee sting by pouring some undistilled vinegar on it
- Help bruises heal faster by applying a little vinegar
- Sooth a soar throat by gargling 1 Tb of apple cider vinegar with 1 tsp of salt
- Soften your cuticles
- Clean your toothbrushes
- Erase scorch marks
- Unset old stains
- Shine porcelain sinks
- Keep cut fresh flowers fresh
- Revive your paintbrushes
- Kill weeds in the yard
- Peel off wallpaper
- Clean cloths and sponges
- Conceal scratches in wood furniture
- Remove stains from pots and pans
- Soak out blood stains
- Clean and disinfect baby toys
- Get rid of stubborn bathtub residue
- Spray vinegar along doorways to keep ants away
- 1/4 c in bath water for yeast rash
- Spray some on your pets to remove fleas (make sure you do this outside, since the fleas will jump right off)
- Clean pet stains from carpet
- Remove lice, just put in a spray bottle, spray head and comb out eggs
- Relieve sunburn by lightly rubbing it with vinegar
- Use apple cider vinegar (1/4 cup) with 3/4 cup of water and a TBS of Honey as my conditioner on hair… it helps with eczema of the scalp…also helps dry and oily hair keeping the ph balance right!
- Use it when anyone in the house has a stuffy nose. If you boil equal parts apple cider vinegar with water and set your stove on high until it boils then turn down to low it acts like a vapor. Works wonders!!!!
Thanks for the list! It’s also great for Swimmer’s Ear. Mix 1/2 tsp., of white vinegar with 1/2 tsp., of rubbing alcohol . Put a few drops in affected ear; wait about 10 seconds then turn head over to drain out. Do this twice a day till gone. The alcohol kills the germs and bacteria, and the vinegar kills any fungus.
ReplyDeleteWow! Thanks for this! I am going to need to remember this for sure!
DeleteHave u tried the vinegar for you're hair? Can it be mixed with shampoo &/or conditioner?
ReplyDeleteI've never tried it before myself, but someone did tell me, use apple cider vinegar (1/4 cup) with 3/4 cup of water and a TBS of Honey as my conditioner on hair… it helps with eczema of the scalp…also helps dry and oily hair keeping the ph balance right! I have used baking soda with my shampoo. The baking soda helps to get all of the build up off. I hope this helps.
DeleteVinegar was what we used long before there was creme rinse. It on-tangles hair and restores it's natural PH. It does smell some though. However if you read somewhere on this page, you can put lemon peels in vinegar and let it sit for awhile and it no longer smells like vinegar. Glorious hair, shinny and tangle free and smells like lemons! Not to mention, darn cheap.
DeleteI use orange peels, but lemon peels work great too! Vinegar is truly amazing! Thanks.
DeleteI have a small spray bottle with apple cider vinegar in my shower for when my hair is too tangled for even the conditioner to deal with - I just spray it straight onto the tangle. It also helped knock out some VERY resistant dandruff! You could mix it, but why would you want to when you could just use it straight? (Hold your breath before spraying, by the way.)
DeleteOh my gosh, Deborah. My hair is so long and gets really tangled on the under side. I will totally try this. I hate having to comb it out and pull out tons of hair! Thanks!
Deletedont forget to set a bowl of vinegar out in the room you are painting. No paint smells!
ReplyDeleteI've heard that before! Thanks for the reminder! So helpful!
DeleteLets not forget, brushing teeth with baking soda gives you fresh breath, scours you teeth and you can't get cheaper.
ReplyDeleteVery true! Thanks for the tip!
DeleteI don't think I saw what a wonderful job vinegar, a little ammonia and water do on windows. Especially when you use newspaper to wipe them. There is something about the print that leaves your windows streak free. Maybe you will want to use gloves though cause the print comes off on your hands. But no fuzz like you get with paper towel at a least a 1.00 a roll!
ReplyDeleteI have heard that before too! I've never tried it, but I think I will this weekend! Thanks!
DeleteI keep white vinegar in a spray bottle in my kitchen and will use it to clean my counter before working with bread dough - nobody wants chemicals in their fresh-baked loaf! I have used it to remove wallpaper and to de-tangle my hair in the shower
ReplyDeleteThose are such good ideas, Deborah! Thanks so much!
DeleteI use it on my veggies. I heard it helps get rid of the chemicals. Just spray them, let sit for a bit then rinse off.
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