Probably the vast majority of housewives face the same problems in the kitchen: how to clean the microwave oven, how to shine the glasses, and so on. However, kitchen towels are the most problematic for women. These indispensable helpers very quickly become the worst enemies, attracting all the stains and not wanting to wash off. As a result, the overall impression of the kitchen and the mood of the hostess are spoiled. But if you know a few small and simple secrets, then the problem of dirty towels will cease to exist.
How to wash kitchen towels to pristine cleanliness
All towels in the kitchen should be made of natural fabric, preferably waffle. They do not attract dirt so much and are much easier to wash off. But towels with pile, albeit very attractive, it is better not to use. They quickly lose their appearance and accumulate dirt.
Like it or not, kitchen towels will get dirty anyway. It is necessary to have a few pieces in stock, for a shift.
The longer you pull with washing, the worse the towels are washed. If you wash them once every two days along with other things that are similar in color, then problems can be avoided.
Do not forget about soaking - this method is good for difficult,. And if you add ordinary table salt to the water, the miraculous effect will be obvious.
A few more products that can be used to achieve a good result when soaking: dishwashing gel, baking soda,. The last 2 remedies are used in moderation. Then the towels are rinsed and washed in the usual way.
In absolutely hopeless cases, you can bleach and boil light plain towels. Wash them in the washing machine at the highest possible temperature.
Colored and bright towels, of course, do not need to be boiled and bleached. They will have to be washed in the machine at lower temperatures, so the only way to remove stains from them is by soaking them.
There is a universal way to clean both white and colored towels. It is necessary to lather a hard-to-remove stain with ordinary laundry soap, wrap it in a bag and put it aside for the whole day. The towels are then machine washed at medium temperature. For this purpose, you can use soap with a stain remover effect.
There is a very simple tip: always iron kitchen towels after washing. Surprisingly, they are much less polluted this way. And they look much neater.
It must be remembered that towels are used only for dishes. Wipe the gas stove, countertop and other work surfaces with special napkins or rags that can not be washed, but thrown away.
Lazy Tip: Use disposable waffle napkins instead of towels. The problem of dirty spots will disappear forever.
Knowing these little tricks, you can enjoy clean, bright and fresh towels in your kitchen while enjoying housekeeping!
Sincerely, AnnaEvt.
Domestic troubles often spoil the mood or unsettle. This collection contains the fastest and most effective ways to solve small problems - easily and simply. The tips that experienced housewives pass on from generation to generation are now open only to you.
1. Tragedy in pantyhose? Emergency help will be provided by nail polish, which, although it does not reanimate the damaged item, will give them time to reach the store and buy a new pair.
2. Strange as it may sound, red wine stains can be easily removed with its antipode - white wine.
3. When ironing, it is not always possible to smooth out small wrinkles, but if you use a hair iron, you can even smooth out a thing on yourself.
4. Water bags inserted into the shoes will help to stretch the new shoes, then the new pair should be removed overnight in the freezer.
5. By the way, in order to soften a jacket made of genuine leather a little, you need to wet it well and put it on.
6. Foundation stains on the collar can be removed with men's shaving foam.
7. Underarm Sweat Stains Are Easily Removed With Lemon Or Baking Soda
8. Lover Tip: Lipstick stains on shirts are easiest to remove with hairspray.
9. Worn suede can be slightly tanned with an ordinary stationery eraser.
10. It is quite possible to fix a screw that has flown out of the temple of glasses with transparent nail polish.
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For many of us, cleaning is the most burdensome duty and a terrible punishment. Often, only at the moment when there is no clean space left in the house and the apartment begins to resemble a dinosaur battlefield, we doomedly proceed to restore order. In fact, cleaning is easy and fast if you know the basic secrets.
We are in website set out to make your life easier and put together some new tricks to help you get through your homework.
Cleaning the dirtiest items in the bathroom
An old bathroom curtain will look like it came from a store if all dirty areas and even places with yellowness and mold are washed with a solution consisting of equal parts hydrogen peroxide and water.
To clean your toothbrushes of germs, soak them for an hour in vinegar. Then wash well under running water.
We soak washcloths for an hour in hot water and vinegar in a 1: 1 ratio. Then rinse well with clean water and dry.
We wash the bath white
Hydrogen peroxide is good for limescale, yellow spots and gray surfaces. We spray it with a spray bottle on the surface of the bath, leave for half an hour and then rinse well with warm water.
You can easily clean the surface of the bath if you fill it with soda and pour vinegar after a few minutes. After that, you need to lightly brush the surface with a brush and rinse with warm water.
Unwanted yellowness effectively removes a solution of ordinary citric acid. We make the solution at the rate of: one sachet per glass of water. Apply this product with a sponge to the surface of the bath and leave for 20 minutes. Then wash off with warm water.
You can clean the bath to a shine and get rid of old plaque with a mixture of vinegar and salt. We mix the ingredients in a 1: 1 ratio and clean the bathroom to whiteness.
Dealing with a dirty toilet
The toilet will sparkle with cleanliness if you use mustard powder for cleaning with the addition of citric acid and cornstarch in equal parts.
To clean and refresh the toilet, you can make your own cleaning bombs. Just 1-2 bombs thrown into the toilet will give not only a hygienic effect, but also a pleasant smell.
You will need:
- 1 glass of soda
- 1/4 cup citric acid
- 1/2 tsp vinegar
- 1 st. l. 6% hydrogen peroxide solution
- 15-20 drops of your favorite essential oil
Cooking:
Pour soda into a bowl, add citric acid. In the second bowl, mix the vinegar and peroxide and pour this liquid drop by drop into the dry mixture. Add essential oil and form small balls with a spoon. We spread the bombs on parchment paper and dry for at least 6 hours. We store the bombs in a closed glass jar.
We clean the seams between the tiles in the bathroom
With the help of an ordinary white paraffin candle, you can get rid of mold, dark plaque and dirty deposits on the seams between the tiles. To do this, you need to run the dirty seam several times with the blunt end of the candle. This will clean and protect the seams from mold and dirt.
We pour baking soda into a bowl, take it with an unnecessary toothbrush dipped in water and clean the dirty places. After cleaning, rinse the surface with warm water. Seams are like new!
We mix warm water with hydrogen peroxide in proportions of 2: 1. With a brush or sponge, we clean the seams between the tiles with this solution, which then can not be washed off.
Washing tiles
We take 15 grams of citric acid and dilute it with a glass of warm water. We wash the tile with the resulting solution. Then rinse off with clean water.
If the tiled walls are too dirty, vinegar will help. Spray the surface with a spray bottle of vinegar, leave for 10 minutes and rinse with clean water. Then wipe the tiles with a soft microfiber cloth. This method will not only wash the tile, but also disinfect it.
Fixing the washing machine
We clean the washing machine once a quarter.
Ordinary citric acid will help clean the car from scale and water scale. Pour 60 grams of citric acid into the powder compartment. We start the machine for a full washing cycle with the highest possible temperature.
We are preparing a simple and effective tool that will put the washing machine in order.
You will need:
- 2 cups of vinegar
- ¼ cup baking soda
- ¼ glass of water
- sponge
Cooking:
In a bowl, mix water and soda. Pour this solution into the powder compartment. Pour the vinegar into the drum of the washing machine. We start the machine in the normal washing mode. After the cycle is completed, wipe all rubber gaskets and the door with a sponge. Dry the drum with the door open.
Perfectly wash the stove
We remove fat from the surface of the plate and from small parts with an ordinary eraser. This method is used by employees of professional cleaning services.
A greasy stove can be tidied up with lemon juice and lemon wedges. Squeeze out the juice, wipe the stove with lemon and leave for 15 minutes. Then wipe with a wet cloth.
Cleaning the oven
You can clean the oven from grease and soot with a glass of ammonia and a liter of water. Heat the oven to 150 degrees and turn off. We put a container with hot water on the lower grate, a container with ammonia on the upper one. Close the oven door and leave to cool until morning.
In the morning, add a few teaspoons of any detergent and half a cup of warm water to a container with ammonia. Wipe the oven with a sponge with the resulting solution and rinse it with water.
These useful tips will come in handy for every housewife when preparing various dishes.
If the soup is too salty, a piece of sugar is dipped into it on a spoon. As soon as the sugar begins to dissolve, the spoon is removed - the sugar absorbs the excess salt. You can also wrap some flour or rice in a rag and boil it in the soup. Flour and rice also absorb salt. You can put a raw whole potato in the soup, and take it out after a few minutes. 
To prevent the cookies from burning, sprinkle some salt under the molds.
To avoid lumps, dilute the flour for pancakes and sauces in salted water.
To keep the cheese from drying out, wrap it in a clean cloth soaked in salt water.
The food that you are steaming will cook faster if you add salt to the water in which the pan is standing.
When cleaning slippery fish, dip your fingers into the salt - this will make your work easier.
To keep the salt dry, put some rice grains in it.
It is best to store an opened bottle of mineral water, well corked, upside down. Water will retain gas and freshness longer.
To prevent cabbage rolls from burning in the pan during stewing, put a lid of a smaller diameter than the pan with the handle up on the bottom of the pan. Lay cabbage leaves on the lid, and cabbage rolls on them.
Grease the grater on which you are going to grate the cheese with vegetable oil. From this, the cheese will not stick together, and the grater is easier to wash.
Poultry is plucked from top to bottom, and forest birds are plucked from bottom to top.
Not only a knife, but also a grater is suitable for removing fish scales.
It is much more convenient to remove the scales if you lower the fish under water. Then the scales do not scatter to the sides and do not stain anything around.
If during cooking several times add a little cold water, the fish will be tastier.
Soaking in vinegar, kvass, sour milk, cucumber, cabbage or beetroot brine is a reliable way to soften tough meat.
To get a beautiful fried crust, you need to grease the entire surface of raw meat with vegetable oil.
If flat pieces of meat are rolled up, they will fry more evenly.
If the yolks whipped to prepare the dough are salted, then the finished products will acquire a pleasant yellow color.
Semolina will be tender and lump-free if you wash the grits in several waters. Milk will not "run away" if the edges of the pan are greased.
And to make the milk boil faster, you can put a little sugar in it. 
Do you want to make raisin dough? Rinse the raisins in hot water, and then sprinkle with flour. Then the raisins are evenly distributed in the dough.
If the yeast dough has come up, and you don’t have time to immediately cut it and bake it so that it doesn’t fit anymore, cover it with well-dampened paper, just shake it off the water first.
If you add a little milk to sour cream, it will not curdle in the gravy.
Proteins whip better if they are pre-cooled, and yolks are more quickly rubbed if they are heated. Rice will be white and crumbly if citric acid crystals are added to the water.
The broth will be tastier if the meat is held in a hot oven before cooking.
To get a clear broth with dumplings, they need to be dipped in hot water for a few seconds to wash off the flour, and then transferred to a boiling broth.
Milk will not turn sour if you put a leaf of horseradish in it.
So that the peeled apples do not darken, you need to dip them in slightly salted cold water.
To quickly whip foam or cream, add a pinch of salt to protein or cream.
The larger the vegetables are cut, the less nutrients they lose during cooking.
Beans will become tastier and more nutritious if the water is drained immediately after boiling, then pour cold water and add 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil to it.
Beets are cooked for a very long time - 3-3.5 hours. And you can cook it for only an hour, then remove from heat and put for 10 minutes under a stream of cold water. The candle will be ready. 
So that the pieces of fish do not fall apart during frying, you need to salt them, roll in flour and let them lie down for 10-15 minutes, then put them in a frying pan in hot oil.
Put the frozen fish in a plastic bag, tie it up and put it in warm water. The fish will thaw faster than just at room temperature.
Boiled potatoes will turn out snow-white if you add a little lemon juice to the water.
Onions will turn golden and tastier if you sprinkle them with powdered sugar when frying.
A piece of bread placed in a pot in which cabbage is boiled will absorb an unpleasant odor.
If the mayonnaise starts to sour, add a spoonful of cold water to it.
If the potatoes are cooked in their “uniform”, pierce the skin in several places - it will not crumble.
Fried potatoes will get a piquant taste if you add 1 teaspoon of mustard to it during cooking.
Sprinkle chicken, duck, or turkey with salt water 10 minutes before the end of frying for a crispy crust on fried poultry.
To grind boiled potatoes, it is better to use not a meat grinder, but a hair sieve.
Unpleasant sensations are caused by an onion smell in the mouth. Drink some milk - it will disappear.
To prevent the soup with homemade noodles from turning cloudy, dip the noodles for a minute in hot water and discard on a sieve, and then put in the broth and cook until tender. The same advice can be given regarding rice soup: put the washed rice in boiling water for 3-5 minutes, put it on a sieve, and then pour it into the broth.
If you boil eggs over high heat, the protein becomes hard, and the yolk becomes softer. And if you cook over low heat, the yolk will become hard, and the protein will remain loose. Therefore, it is better to cook eggs on moderate heat.
To prevent the eggs from cracking during cooking, pour a little salt into the water or put them in a pot of cold water and boil over moderate heat. 
If you need only protein, and the yolk needs to be stored for several days, you should pierce the egg with a needle from both sides - the protein will flow out, and the yolk will remain in the shell.
The acid dries out the layers of dough during baking, and the sour cream gives the products a delicate taste and makes the biscuits crispy.
If the cake is difficult to separate from the baking sheet, you need to hold the baking sheet over the steam or put it for a few seconds in cold water, poured into a shallow bowl.
If it is not possible to open a glass jar with canned food, it is dipped for several minutes with a lid down in hot water, after which the jar opens easily.
If you are tormented by barley, take a spoon with a metal handle - and as soon as the eye starts to itch, slide along the edge of the eyelid 3 times back and forth.
If you cut your finger and you don't have hydrogen peroxide or other necessary means to stop the bleeding, sprinkle sugar on the wound, the bleeding will stop immediately.
Children often bump and fall. To reduce pain and bruising from a bruise, immediately apply a wet piece of newspaper crumpled in your fist to the bruise.
You can make an ointment for burns. Take a tin jar and melt an ordinary wax candle there, and add 2 tbsp. spoons of sunflower oil. Cool and lubricate the burn.
So that the refrigerator door seal does not wear out and does not allow heat to pass through, it must be handled with care. Clean the rubber from time to time with warm soapy water. After that, wipe dry and sprinkle with talc or starch.
In order not to take soap with you on the road, you can prepare sheets of soap paper for one-time use in advance: soak porous wrapping paper with shampoo or liquid soap, dry, cut into small napkins.
Bad odors in your kitchen sink drain are easy to fix. At least once a week, flush the pipe with a boiling solution of 2 tbsp. tablespoons of soda ash per 1 liter of water.
Mildew odor can be removed from wooden utensils by washing them with vinegar and water and then with soap and water.
Do not pour out the water in which the jacket potatoes were boiled. It will wash glass, earthenware and earthenware well.
Don't throw away raw potato peels. Chop them finely, mix with hot water, vinegar and salt. Get an excellent tool for washing bottles, decanters.
A strong salt solution will help clean frozen window panes.
A dull knife is easier to sharpen if you hold the blade in a weak saline solution for half an hour.
The smell of oil paint, which is kept in the apartment after the repair, will quickly disappear if you put plates of salt in several places.
Car windows will not fog up if they are wiped with wet salt wrapped in gauze.
Do not throw away the water in which the vegetables have been boiled. Cool and pour indoor flowers with this decoction.
So that the edges of the carpet lying on the floor do not bend or fray, take BF-6 glue and glue a 20 mm wide braid around the entire perimeter on the back of the carpet. This simple operation will greatly extend the life of your carpet.
With the help of an old stocking, a loose screw can be strengthened. Stuff finely chopped pieces of nylon stocking tightly into the hole from the fallen screw. Heat a nail of a suitable diameter on fire and stick it deeply into the capron. You will get a hole with strong melted walls. Screw in the screw here. Such "stocking" plugs will never dry out and fall out.
To dry clothes in the bathroom, it is convenient to use plastic cords from unnecessary children's jump ropes. After a slight sag, the cord easily returns to its original position.
To remove gum from upholstered furniture and carpets, place ice on the area. The gum will freeze and crumble.
Rust from the stove will disappear if you wipe its surface with hot vegetable oil.
Wipe a new oilcloth with a mixture of vinegar and milk (in half), this will prevent it from cracking.
Before washing a knife after eating herring, onion or garlic, hold it over a hot burner and then wash it with cold water and soap.
The grater will become sharp again if you "rub" sandpaper on it.
The head of garlic glues glass and plastic well, you just need to anoint the parts with a crushed clove. The gluing area will remain transparent.
Unpleasant smell in the kitchen will disappear if you burn dry orange or lemon peel
With a cloth soaked in milk, you can remove fresh ink stains, clean the mirror, keys of musical instruments, picture frames.
Rusty stains from bathtubs and sinks can be removed with a 5% solution of oxalic acid, hydrogen peroxide with the addition of ammonia or hot vinegar, in which a little table salt is dissolved. Work with gloves!
If you want the ironed linen not to be shiny, add a little milk to the starch.
Clean dirt on jewelry with pearls, turquoise, malachite and amber with ethyl alcohol and soapy water (1:1). After that, wipe the amber dry with a flannel, and dry the rest of the stones with a soft cloth moistened with ethyl alcohol.
A gold ring can be restored to shine by soaking it in sugar water and then brushing it with lipstick.
Metal brooches and pendants often leave dark spots on clothes. To prevent this from happening, coat the back of them with colorless nail polish.
Silver items can be restored to their original luster by immersing them in water for 2-3 hours, in which chopped potatoes are placed. Then rinse them with clean water.
You can remove plaque from silver items by washing in warm soapy water and cleaning with a soft cloth dipped in a mixture of ammonia and tooth powder or chalk.
The crease on the trousers lasts longer if it is wiped from the inside with dry soap, then ironed.
To pick up trash from the floor without a dustpan, dampen the edge of the newspaper and stick it to the floor. After that, with a broom, you can sweep all the garbage on it.
If the ashtray is difficult to clean, rub it with salt and rinse with water.
To properly sew on a button, you need to insert a match between the button and the material, and after finishing work, get it out.
When ironing a tie, insert a piece of cardboard between its top and bottom layer, then the seams will not be imprinted.
If your shoes get wet during rain, stuff your shoes with newsprint and let them dry away from a heat source.
The scissors are dull - it is enough to cut the sandpaper with them.
Ecology of consumption. Life hack: Using wallpaper and light-colored paints, you can visually increase the volume of the room. Dark tones...
I. Apartment renovation
1. The nail is easily driven in if its tip is dipped in vegetable oil.
2. If sugar is added to the cement solution, it will become much stronger.
3. Alabaster, diluted with milk, hardens longer - it is easier for them to seal cracks with a brush.
4. If the oil brush is very hard, dip it in boiling vinegar for 1 minute.
5. The room, which has just been pasted over with wallpaper, cannot be aired for several days, otherwise the wallpaper will begin to bubble and peel off.
6. Tiles are easier to cut when wet. In this case, it is less likely that it will break.
7. Imported tiles are more expensive than domestic ones, but when laying them, you don’t have to align the edges of the tiles so that they lie close to one another.
8. Tiles that have fallen out can be firmly fixed on zinc white, densely rubbed with natural drying oil. But it will take a long time to dry.
9. Washable wallpaper should not be pasted over a sunny room - under the influence of sunlight, such wallpapers emit substances harmful to health.
10. Using wallpaper and light-colored paints, you can visually increase the volume of the room. Dark tones visually reduce its volume.
II. Cleaning of the apartment
1. Scratches on polished furniture can be repaired with a matching shoe polish.
2. You can wipe the mirrors with cotton wool soaked in cologne or alcohol (vodka). You can use cold water with an admixture of linen blue - this will give the mirror a pleasant shine. For the same purpose, a diluted infusion of tea is suitable.
3. It is recommended to clean a yellowed enameled bathtub with salt and vinegar.
4. It is recommended to wipe the tiles in the bathroom with vinegar and water (1: 5). You can use a soap solution with the addition of ammonia.
5. What is painted with light oil or enamel paint is recommended to be washed with water without soap and soda (they make the paint dull). You can add ammonia to the water (a teaspoon per liter) - it removes dirt and adds shine. After washing, wipe with a dry cloth so that yellow spots and streaks do not appear.
7. A new broom, mop, broom will last longer if soaked in hot soapy water before use.
8. A white mark on a polished surface caused by a hot object can be removed by wiping it with alcohol and vegetable oil.
9. Rub with a woolen cloth in circular motions.
10. Do not wash windows with soap, as it forms a film on the glass that is difficult to clean.
11. A strong solution of vinegar removes stains from glasses and mirrors (1 tablespoon per glass of water).
12. A brush soaked in salt water will help restore the golden color to straw products.
13. The color of the carpet will become brighter if you sprinkle it with fine white salt in the evening, and the next day remove the salt with a soft, clean, damp cloth.
14. Linoleum floors should not be washed with hot water or water with the addition of soda or ammonia - linoleum tarnishes and deteriorates.
15. You can wash with warm water with the addition of laundry soap, then rinse and wipe dry.
16. About once every 3 months you need to wipe the linoleum with natural drying oil, and then carefully wipe it off with a soft cloth. You can rub linoleum with a mixture of wax, paraffin and turpentine (1:1:5), which must be mixed while heated.
17. Wipe parquet floors well with a damp cloth soaked in cold water with the addition of glycerin (a tablespoon per glass of water). Washing parquet with hot water is not recommended.
18. It is enough to wipe the chrome-plated surfaces with a cloth dipped in soapy water.
19. Nickel-plated surfaces are cleaned with pastes and liquid cleaning compounds. For example: a slurry of ammonia and tooth powder. When such a mixture dries, the product must be wiped with a dry cloth and polished with a cloth.
20. To make serving knives shine, they need to be cleaned with raw potatoes. A few drops of lemon juice will also work.
21. Porcelain dishes should be washed with water and ammonia.
22. Crystal dishes cannot be washed with hot water - this makes them cloudy and covered with a network of small cracks. If, after washing, wipe it with a woolen cloth with starch blued with blue, the dishes will shine more strongly.
23. Dark plaque from silver and silver-plated products can be easily removed as follows: wash the product in warm soapy water, then clean it with a soft cloth dipped in a mixture of ammonia with chalk or tooth powder. Then rinse with warm water and dry thoroughly.
24. Silver, silver-plated and cupronickel products can be refreshed by washing them in warm water with baking soda (50 g per 1 liter of water) or in warm soapy water with ammonia (1 tablespoon per 1 liter). After this, the product should be rinsed with clean water and wiped dry with a soft cloth.
III. Useful kitchen tips
1. Peeling potatoes darkens the skin on the hands. To avoid this, it is necessary to moisten your hands with vinegar before work and let them dry, and after work immediately wash with soap and grease with cream.
2. All glassware - glasses, vases - can be washed without special means. To do this, add a little vinegar or coarse salt to warm water. The dishes will become cleaner and more transparent.
3. Aluminum pans will shine again if they are boiled with potato peels, apple peels, rhubarb peels, or a vinegar solution.
4. Darkened enamel pots should be boiled with any dishwashing detergent, and then rinsed with hot water. But if you boil them twice a month with a solution of vinegar, they will not darken.
5. If something is burnt in a saucepan, you can pour cold water on the bottom and add salt. After a few hours, food remains can be easily removed. For enameled pans, this method is suitable: pour the pan with hot water with the addition of a spoonful of soda, leave to stand, and then boil - the remnants of food will go away perfectly.
6. Frying pans can be cleaned easily as follows: slightly warm them up and rub them with salt, and then with parchment (in extreme cases, with plain paper).
If the runaway milk spilled on a hot stove, you need to fill the flooded place with salt and cover it with wet paper - then the smell will not spread throughout the room.
7. So that bugs do not start in the flour, you need to put a few cloves of garlic in the bag where it is stored, without peeling the top skin.
8. Flour should be sifted periodically and poured into a clean bag.
9. To make knives, scissors, etc. easier to sharpen, you can put them in a weak saline solution for half an hour and sharpen without wiping.
10. Washing the meat grinder is much easier if you skip raw potatoes at the end.
11. Do not dry the meat grinder near a heat source - this will dull the knives.
12. New glass beakers will not break if they are placed in a vessel of cold water, heated slowly to a boil, and left to cool in the same water.
13. Metal foil for baking will last much longer in the refrigerator - it does not stick together.
IV. Eliminate odors
1. An unpleasant smell on the hands (from fish, garlic, etc.) can be removed by rubbing the hands with salt, and then washing them with soap.
2. The smell of garlic from the mouth can be removed by chewing parsley.
3. The smell of fish from pans and pots will disappear if they are rubbed with warm salt and then rinsed.
4. The smell of onions can be removed by rubbing kitchen boards, cutlery with dry salt.
5. You can get rid of an unpleasant smell in the kitchen by boiling water with vinegar in an open container and ventilating the room after a few minutes. For the same purpose, you can put an orange or lemon peel on a heated burner, or pour a little salt on a hot stove.
6. The smell of runaway milk spilled on a hot stove can be localized by filling the flooded place with salt and covering it with wet paper - then the smell will not spread throughout the room.
7. To remove the smell of paint from the room, you need to rub the head of garlic and leave it for a while in the room.
8. The smell of oil paint in the apartment will disappear faster if you put plates of salt in several places.
9. The smell of tobacco from the room is poorly expelled even by a draft. But this can be done like this: open the windows and put 2-3 wet towels in different places in the room. They absorb tobacco smell well. For the same purpose, you can light a few candles in the room where you smoked.
V. Jewelry
1. After wearing jewelry, wipe it dry with a cloth to avoid sweat stains.
2. Store your jewelry in a dry place.
3. Amethysts, topazes, pearls, turquoise lose color intensity under the influence of ultraviolet rays - they should be stored in the dark.
4. Gilded items can be cleaned by wiping their surface with a cotton swab dipped in cologne, turpentine or egg white.
5. A golden item will shine more if you hold it in sweetened water for a while.
6. You can restore shine to gold and silver jewelry by washing them with the following composition: ½ cup of soapy water and 1 teaspoon of ammonia. You can use a soft toothbrush for this. After processing, rinse the product with water and wipe dry.
7. To clean silver items, you need to lower them into a solution of hot water and ammonia (1:1). When the solution has cooled, remove the products from the water and wipe gently.
VI. Shoe care
1. An unpleasant smell from shoes can be eliminated with hydrogen peroxide by wiping the shoes from the inside with a cotton swab moistened with it. For the same purpose, a solution of potassium permanganate is used.
2. Formalin is used to disinfect shoes: the shoes are wiped inside with a cloth moistened with formalin, and placed in a plastic bag, tied and left for a day. Then the shoes are taken out and aired.
3. Suede shoes are well cleaned if they are held over steam and then brushed with a special brush. If suede shoes are heavily soiled, then they are cleaned with soapy water with the addition of ammonia. After cleaning, it is desirable to treat suede with a water-repellent preparation.
4. If the shoes are too tight, you need to pour a little cologne, alcohol or table vinegar into it. After that, the shoes will take the shape of the foot, and the skin will become softer.
5. So that the shoes do not creak, you need to soak the sole with hot natural drying oil or grease with linseed or castor oil.
6. If new shoes “burn” your feet in hot weather, you can wipe them from the inside with three percent vinegar.
So that the shoes do not get wet, you can treat them with the following solution: dissolve 40 g of fish oil, 10 parts of wax, 3 parts of turpentine in a water bath. Apply the cream in liquid form.
7. Dry sports shoes can be soaked in warm water until the leather is soft. Then you need to wipe it inside and out, dry it, grease it with glycerin and stuff it tightly with newsprint.
8. In warm weather, it is better to use emulsion creams for shoe care, which dissolve well and allow air to pass through, and in winter - organic solvent creams (they provide an air- and waterproof film).
9. Dried shoe polish can be restored by adding a few drops of turpentine to it and warming it gently.
10. It is useful to wash shoe brushes with water with the addition of ammonia.
11. To soften the leather of shoes that have not been worn for a long time, you need to rub it with plenty of castor oil and let it soak in.
VII. Fur and leather
1. Leather items can be refreshed by rubbing them with beaten egg white. Contaminated skin can be washed with warm unboiled milk.
Skin color will be restored if you lubricate it with glycerin.
2. Leather goods will give shine to coffee grounds. Thickness should be wrapped in a woolen or flannel cloth and wipe the skin with vigorous movements.
3. Leather products can be cleaned with soap and water and ammonia, and then wiped with a cloth soaked in castor oil (or petroleum jelly or glycerin).
4. Worn places on leather products should be wiped from time to time with a cloth moistened with glycerin or fresh orange peel.
5. This will help restore their original appearance.
6. A soiled leather bag can be cleaned by wiping the leather with a cut onion. As the onion gets dirty, you need to make a new cut.
7. After completing the procedure, wipe the bag to a shine with a clean soft cloth.
8. A dark leather handbag will get a shine if you wipe it with a cotton swab dipped in lemon juice.
9. You can also update a leather handbag in this way: gently wash in warm soapy water, to which a little ammonia is added. Then dry and wipe with a cloth soaked in castor oil.
10. For cleaning sheepskin coats, a soapy solution with the addition of ammonia is used. After that, the product should be treated with another solution: 20 g of glycerin, 20 g of ammonia, 5 borax per 0.5 l of water. Then the sheepskin coat needs to be dried and washed by hand.
11. Suede jackets and coats should be cleaned with the following solution: 1 tablespoon of ammonia in 5 tablespoons of water. Then things must be gently wiped with a cloth moistened with a composition of 1 teaspoon of vinegar per 1 liter of water.
12. If new leather gloves turned out to be tight, wrap them in a wet towel, and after 2-3 hours put them on and dry them on your hands.
13. To restore the shine of tarnished fur, you need to grind the walnut kernel into powder, tie the resulting powder into three-fold gauze and rub the fur through the hair with this swab after the nut oil has been absorbed, the fur will acquire a beautiful lasting shine.
VIII. Stain removal
1. A greasy stain on the wallpaper can be removed by applying to it for 2-3 minutes a piece of soft thick cloth moistened with pure gasoline and slightly wrung out. The fat dissolved in gasoline will be absorbed into the fabric. Tooth powder impregnated with gasoline is used for the same purpose. When the powder dries, it must be brushed off the wall with a brush. An old stain will have to be treated twice.
2. A dark mark from hot on furniture can be removed as follows: rub with half a lemon until the stain turns pale. This operation must be repeated until the stain disappears completely.
3. Spots from light liquids on furniture can be removed by soaking a sponge in vegetable oil, and carefully drive it along the wood fibers. You can also use a paste of mayonnaise or vegetable oil mixed with salt (apply, leave for two hours, then rinse). A mixture of linseed oil with turpentine (1: 1) is also suitable (similarly).
4. Grease stains from a fur coat can be removed in two ways: 1) wipe the fur in one direction with a cloth moistened with refined gasoline or a special stain remover; 2) wash the stains with a solution of washing powder or foam from soap chips. At the same time, rub the solution or foam into the fur so as not to moisten the leather base. After such treatment, wash the place where there was a stain with water, dry the fur (but not in the sun!), And then knock out the fur coat with a beater.
5. Fat from canned food is removed with chalk or tooth powder left in a contaminated place overnight.
6. If you urgently need to get rid of a greasy stain, you can sprinkle it with tooth powder and iron it through paper.
7. Tea stains on table oilcloth are easily removed with lemon juice. published
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