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Ways to Use Vinegar and Baking Soda to Clean Every Room in Your Home Recipes and step-by-step instructions. If you want to cut down on the number of chemical-filled cleaners in your house but you still want to keep everything clean, the combination of vinegar and baking soda is a great eco-friendly alternative for removing stains and smells. The chemical reaction between alkaline baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and acidic vinegar creates carbon dioxide bubbles that help lift away stubborn dirt. Explore  Easy recipes using vinegar and baking soda to clean all sorts of messes around your house. Tips for Using Vinegar and Baking Soda to Clean Mix a fresh batch each time you need it and use it right away. The best type of vinegar to use is distilled white vinegar.  There are no dangerous fumes released from mixing baking soda and vinegar, but you may want to stand back as the reaction does release carbon dioxide. Drain Cleaner This mixture can be used to refresh a stinky drain and clear m

How to Clean Brass Naturally You don't need strong chemicals to regain that warm glow. Made from a combination of zinc and copper, brass is an ancient and popular metal found in cookware, jewelry, musical instruments (brass band, anyone?), and home decorative objects. If your house is of a certain age, many of your doorknobs may be brass—a bonus because of their natural antimicrobial properties. Cleaning Brass-Plated Items and Lacquered Brass Like the metals from which it is made, brass also tarnishes easily. What is the best way to clean brass? First, you need to determine if your item is, in fact, made of brass. Hold a magnet to your item. If it sticks, the item is not brass, but most likely brass-plated. Use only water and mild detergent to clean brass-plated items, as anything more abrasive could damage the plating. If you have a tarnished or dirty brass piece that needs cleaning, how you do so depends on whether it is lacquered—i.e. coated with a protective glossy finish—or no

Things to Never Put in Your Garbage Disposal The garbage disposal is a handy kitchen appliance, whisking away food scraps and making cleanup a little easier. But not every scrap of food can go into the disposal. Some foods will damage it. Other foods may make it through the disposal just fine, but they could end up clogging or damaging your pipes. Before you clean up after your next meal, make sure you know about the foods that shouldn't go in the garbage disposal, and a few others that may make you proceed with caution before throwing them in. Definitely not Never put these foods in your garbage disposal because they can damage it or cause your drain to clog. Bones: Very small bones like fish bones may be OK in a garbage disposal, but most bones will be a problem. They are very difficult to grind, and Consumer Reports says that even if they are ground up, they can end up in the bottom of some pipes, causing a potential blockage. Onion: This one is very specific. The papery outer