White Vinegar Uses:  As Easy as 1, 2, 3

Any practiced DIYer knows that vinegar is a handy tool for nearly anything. A key ingredient to a healthy snack, an effective and eco-friendly cleaner, and much more, vinegar comes in handy in almost any household or outdoor dilemma.

We’ve shared a lot about the common uses of apple cider vinegar, and how to hack your common conundrums with this great solution, but today, it is time to explore the many uses of white vinegar both in your home and in your garden. Here are our top recommendations on how to simplify and beautify your life with white vinegar.

1. Clean your house

We’ll start this tutorial by reviewing some of the basics of white vinegar: a liquid made up of acetic acid and water, white vinegar has the power to eliminate germs and disinfect, but is also a gentle and chemical free way to go about doing so. Do you want to ditch your chemical-ridden cleaning solutions and stop spreading toxins around your home? White vinegar is your new best friend.

You can use white vinegar as a key ingredient to solutions for almost any area of the home. Floors, windows, bathroom, kitchen, and more, there’s a chemical-free solution waiting for you.

Toilet Bowl:

For a quick and easy hack, just dust some baking soda on the inside of the toilet bowl. Then spray a little vinegar on all toilet surfaces, and allow everything to sit. After 15 to 30 minutes, scrub the bowl, wipe any remaining vinegar away, and enjoy your fresh bathroom.

Generic House Cleaning Spray:

Simply mix equal parts white distilled vinegar and lukewarm water. Add a dash of baking soda, and put it all in a handy spray bottle. This quick and easy cleaner can bust lingering odors, impossible stains, and is a safe and friendly go-to for your general cleaning needs.

Deodorizer:

The general cleaning mix above can be enhanced for optimal deodorizing by adding a few drops of your favorite essential oil. Spot treat on carpet by saturating the problem area, letting it stand for 5 to 10 minutes, and blotting. For a quick fix to freshening up the air in a room, simply spritz this mix; the vinegar will disinfect and freshen things up, and as the smell of the vinegar dissipates, you’ll be left with the fresh scent of your essential oil.

Dish Cleaner:

If your dishwasher often leaves your plates and glasses looking dull and murky, white vinegar can give you the extra boost on super clean and shiny dishes. Instead of wasting money on chemical-based rinses, simply add a little vinegar to the rinse dispenser of your dishwashing machine. If you are hand washing, add a cup or so of vinegar to your rinse
water to cut through any leftover murkiness.

Soften Laundry:

Just as white vinegar can help keep your dishes looking shiny, clean, and new, it can have the same revitalizing effect on your laundry. By removing extra soap residue, a little added white vinegar actually softens and further disinfects your clothes. All it takes is a cup or so of vinegar. Skip your store-bought fabric softeners and add this vinegar into the fabric softener dispenser of your machine. The result? Soft, fluffy, and sensitive skin-friendly linens and clothes…And all without any chemicals!

Lock in Your Colors:

Not only will white vinegar improve the feel of your laundry, it will help the look too. Lock in the color of your new, bright linens and clothes simply by soaking them in a mixture of one part water and one part vinegar. Do this as a pre-washing ritual to enjoy bright and bleedfree laundry.

Any practiced DIYer knows that vinegar is a handy tool for nearly anything. A key ingredient to a healthy snack, an effective and eco-friendly cleaner, and much more, vinegar comes in handy in almost any household or outdoor dilemma. We’ve shared a lot about the common uses of apple cider vinegar, and how to hack your common conundrums with this great solution, but today, it is time to explore the many uses of white vinegar both in your home and in your garden. Here are our top recommendations on how to simplify and beautify your life with white vinegar.

2. Perfect Your Garden

The gentle yet effective acid in white vinegar is just as effect out of the home as it is in the home. Rid yourself of pesky plants and pesky pests by arming yourself with a handy spray bottle.

Kill Weeds: For those ugly weeds and unwanted grasses, white vinegar will help to hinder the reemergence of these annoying plants. Thanks to the acidic property in white vinegar, a simple spray bottle of the stuff undiluted will keep you a step ahead of any weeds. If you have some especially stubborn weeds, keep a liberal treatment going, spraying at least once a day.

Another effective remedy is to pick the weeds and then spray a little white vinegar over the roots to keep them from growing back. This weed killing hack is nonselective, so if some white vinegar ends up on your magnolias or rose bushes, it will have the same terminal effect. The huge advantage to white vinegar as an herbicide, though, is that it is eco, pet, and people friendly.

Repel Ants: Another great outdoor use for white vinegar is keeping ants at bay. Using a little bit of vinegar solution will keep the pests under control outdoors and is a good prevention for keeping those trails of ants out of your home. Ants hate vinegar, so a simple undiluted spray around cracks, baseboards, door frames, and anywhere you spot them will dissuade them from the area.

3. Kitchen Uses

Maybe you already have a some great vinegar-based recipes for coleslaws, salad dressings, and even pickling, but there’s even more to white vinegar in the kitchen than just using it as a key ingredient. Help improve the quality of your fruits and veggies with these easy treatments. Revive Leafy Greens
 We all know that sinking feeling of opening up the fridge to see that your fresh lettuce or spinach has wilted. The good news? White vinegar can come to the rescue and get your greens looking live again. First, soak your greens in a bowl of cold water and splash a little vinegar in. Let everything sit for 10 minutes, then rinse and enjoy.

Produce Sanitizer

Whether you buy strictly organic produce or you’ve gotten your hands on something else, you’ll want to make sure any dirt, chemicals, and other impurities are off your fruits and veggies. If you want something a little more than a water rinse, but that is an effective disinfectant, make a mixture of one part vinegar to three parts water. You can even add a little lemon juice or baking soda for a high-powered cleanser. Polish your vegetables with this solution, rinse thoroughly with water, and enjoy.