Comments on: Household Uses For Vinegar

By: With Held

With Held — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:06:44 +0000

Use vinegar full-strength to cure foot fungus, both athlete’s foot and nail fungus infections.

For athlete’s foot or smelly feet, soak your feet in straight vinegar for a hour, if you have a foot bath, or wrap cloths around your feet like the earlier comment about removing dry skin.

For curing a fungal toenail infection, soak a cotton ball in straight vinegar and secure it to the infected toenail with a rubber band. Leave it on for a hour. You can walk around barefoot with the cotton ball on your nail and get chores done while your nail soaks in vinegar. Repeat daily for about three weeks. It really clears up the fungal infection, permanently!

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By: The Penny Pincher

The Penny Pincher — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:55:00 +0000

I found this great site last night: http://www.bakingsodabook.co.uk/. It lists hundreds of uses for baking soda (often mixed with vinegar) that provide nice environmentally safe alternatives to harsher chemicals and using baking soda is quite often a lot cheaper than the other commercial alternatives.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:39:16 +0000

One other great money saving tip for vinegar is to use it as a fabric softener. Just fill one of those little downey balls to the fill line and pop it in with your clothes.

The wash will be soft and won’t smell like vinegar!

By: DawnD

DawnD — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:48:14 +0000

My father is a retired mechanic and one of his tips on cleaning vehicle battery cables is this –
Put a little bit of baking soda on the cable connections and then pour some vinegar on top. It will bubble up and eat through the corrosion that builds up on the connections. You can use a brush to help; we use an old toothbrush. It will clean them up like new and keep you from having problems with starting your auto.

By: julie

julie — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:31:11 +0000

Just this morning I was telling my husband that vinegar is the best – and now I have 10 more things to tell him about! The poor poor man… I just don’t think he gets as excited about these things as I do. GREAT STUFF – the article and the comments (I never knew it would stop a cat from using a spot in the house as their litter box – very cool).

By: Mr. Mann

Mr. Mann — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:48:21 +0000

We use it as part of the pre-wash soak with our daughter’s cloth diapers. It helps lift stains, keep the fabric soft, and minimizes the need to strip the diapers with dish detergent. About a cup of vinegar per load does it right.

And don’t think the vinegar smell will stick to clothes! There might be a bit lingering when you are done washing but by the time they are dry you would never know vinegar touched the fabric.

By: The Penny Pincher

The Penny Pincher — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:58:23 +0000

One other use for vinegar: you can use it to clean windows and mirrors. However, there is one trick to doing it without leaving streaks: use newsprint (i.e. a sheet from a newspaper). Surprisingly you can clean it without streaks (just rub with dry newsprint if any are left behind). Not only do you save on the cleaner, you also save by not having to buy paper towels as most people already have some newspapers lying around waiting to be recycled I just cleaned by bathroom window with a 50/50 vinegar/water solution and newsprint, and it worked like a charm!

By: konny

konny — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:49:08 +0000

If you have a cat that has a place it wants to go to the bathroom other then the litter box put a bowl of vinegar there and the cat will stop using that spot

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