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Why You Need Lemons At Home...

Posted on Fri May 16 2008
By: Praveen Sequeira in Daily Green Tips
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Great fragrance, wonderful to use in food and beverages, and handy to have around at home – Lemons – great for multiple reasons. Extremely high in vitamin C, these popular fruits, have an anti bacterial effect, and are also believed to have antioxidant properties. It's also highly acidic in nature, which makes it extremely useful in our daily lives.

Here are some great handy tips on how to use lemons:

  • If you take equal amounts of lemon juice and water, and add this to an atomizer, it makes for a wonderful, natural refreshing air freshener, devoid of any any chemicals.

  • It can be also used as an ant deterrent. Pour some lemon juice in places that ants are found. This will act as a deterrent to them.

  • An equal amount of lemon juice and water, also acts as an extremely effective, all purpose cleaner, useful anywhere in your home, be it the bathroom or the kitchen. Lemon can also be mixed with viengar and used as a cleaning solution. Moreover this masks, the sour smell of vinegar.

  • Want to get those awful stubborn stains from your microwave? Heat a bowl of waste in your micro for a few seconds, add some lemon pieces or slices to this. Wipe the micro immediately, you'll see the stains coming off immediately, without too much of effort on your part. Lemons are used to neutralize food smells as well, use them in the refrigerators to absorb food odors. It will also leave your fridge smelling fresh.

  • In order to clean your copper or chrome, mix some lemon juice with baking soda and rub this onto your copper or chrome, and wipe off after some time with a cloth or towel. You'll see your chrome looking shiny and new.

  • Lemon juice with some borax, is a powerful and strong toilet cleaner, and leaves your toilet smelling clean.

  • It's a good grease cutter, and the juice can be used along with your dish washing detergent.

  • It's also safe to use with baking soda, to clean your drains, make sure the lemon juice is hot.

  • Lemon juice is ideal cleaner for chopping boards, it kills all germs and destroys all unpleasant odors.

  • Good for cleaning glass and mirrors.

  • Great for furniture polish

  • Effective, natural mouth wash – mix with equal quantities of water.

  • Great disinfectant for wounds.


    • Comments

    1
    mollyL Says:

    Great lemon ideas; the air freshener idea I will be trying immediately. One other use for lemons and baking soda: take the juice from one half of a lemon, mix a half teaspoon of baking soda with it, add enough water to drink it down. This is a wonderful potion for heartburn or sour stomach. Tastes pretty good and it even fizzes!
    2
    Serenity Says:

    Thanks for the ants tip! I get invaded by them every summer and am always on the lookout for something else to try. Another tip is to take a squeeze of lemon juice in a glass of warm water first thing in the morning. You'll see an improvement in your skin's softness in no time.
    3
    tater03 Says:

    I had no idea that this could be used to keep away ants. I will be trying that one out momentarily. We always seem to get ants in the springtime. Thank you for sharing these tips.

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