Make a Clean Break from Those Toxic Household Products
Vinegar
Anxious to avoid using harsh chemicals in your inn, but worried that you could sacrifice your signature cleanliness? Environmentally friendly, an effective disinfectant, and economical to boot, white vinegar is up and coming as a top-shelf cleanser.
Vinegar is produced from the fermentation of ethanol, which yields acetic acid. It’s this acidic liquid that kills most bacteria and mold. White vinegar is vinegar that has been distilled to an acid content of about five to eight per cent, appearing colorless, or ‘white’. Primarily used for medicinal, laboratory, and cleaning purposes, white vinegar is also still used for cooking, baking and pickling.
Use a solution of water and vinegar to remove the grime from counters, chrome, mirrors and windows, shelves, walls, anywhere you would usually use that strong chemical cleanser. Boil a cup of the vinegar solution in your microwave to loosen any baked-on food stains, and to deodorize it, inside. Use vinegar to deodorize drains, garbage disposals, lunch boxes, and your well-used plastic food containers.
If your inn suffers from the mineral build-up caused by hard water, vinegar is for you. Its acidic content dissolves the cloudy residue caused by mineral deposits on your glasses, coffee makers, and other surfaces, and running some vinegar through your clothes iron on steam setting will clean out the deposits building up there, as well. By the way, it cuts through that soap film building up on your inn’s shower doors or bathtubs, too.
Adding vinegar to your dishwasher will add punch to your detergent, as it will for the laundry. Adding the vinegar during the rinse cycle will eliminate any soap residue that
remains on clothing, too.
Used down through the ages, vinegar could be the tried and true solution for all your cleaning problems.
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Inns E-Magazine / Winter 2013