With a wide range of household chemicals on the shelves of hardware stores, their use is not suitable for everyone, as it sometimes leads to severe allergic reactions. How to maintain cleanliness in the kitchen without using all the usual cleaning products, and, therefore, without harm to health? An ordinary lemon will come to the rescue. What is this representative of the citrus family capable of? It turns out that lemon has a lot to do.
Instruction manual
1
Refresh your fridge
Lemon will help to easily get rid of the unpleasant odor in the refrigerator. Dip a cotton swab or sponge in lemon juice and leave it in the refrigerator for several hours. Make sure that there are no spoiled foods in the refrigerator that may cause an unpleasant odor.
2
Make the aluminum pans shine
To do this, it is enough to wipe the inner and outer surfaces of kitchen utensils from aluminum with the cut side of half a lemon and polish them with a soft cloth.
3
Update chopping boards
No matter how you use the kitchen board: you chopped onions, crushed garlic, chopped raw or fried meat, cleaned the fish - wipe the washed surface with half a lemon. So you not only get rid of the smell of food and disinfect the cutting board.
4
Get rid of insects
You will not need to use insecticides to get rid of ants. Lemon will perfectly cope with this task. Put some lemon juice into the syringe and sprinkle the door sills and window sills. Also process all cracks or cracks where the ants gather. You can arrange small pieces of lemon peel along the baseboards. Lemons are also effective against cockroaches and fleas. Twist in a meat grinder 4 lemons with the peel, squeeze. Mix the resulting juice with two liters of water and wash the floors in the apartment. You will be surprised how quickly insects leave your home. The smell of lemon is not to their taste.
5
Clean the microwave
Streaks of fat, drops of sweet syrups froze inside your microwave? You can get rid of them without scratching the surface with abrasive detergents, and without unnecessary physical effort. Just mix 3 tablespoons of lemon juice in one and a half glasses of water. Put the bowl of the solution in the microwave and turn on at full power for 10 minutes. Steam condensing on the inside walls and ceiling of the furnace will soften the impurities. After that, simply remove them with a soft cloth.
