KATHY’S HOME & GARDEN TIPS – NINE WAYS TO USE LEMONS TO CLEAN, FRESHEN AND SANITIZE
1. Quarter a lemon and throw it down the garbage disposal. Run hot water and grind it up. Freshens and cleans marvelously!
2. Use lemon juice to shine copper, brass and chrome. Dip a cut half of lemon in salt for scrubbing power.
3. Thinly slice a lemon into a glass bowl of hot water. Cook on high in the microwave for one minute. Wipe down the microwave with a damp cloth. This cleans and sanitizes.
4. Squeeze juice into a spray bottle to cut through soap scum and hard water.
5. No dish soap? Use a lemon half dipped in baking soda to cut through grease and baked on food.
6. Add one teaspoon juice to a load of laundry to deodorize.
7. Four tablespoons of juice in a half gallon of water makes great window cleaner.
8. Halve a lemon and squeeze the juice over a cutting board. Let stand 10 minutes. Use the cut sides to scrub the surface. Rinse in cool water and air dry.
9. Lemon juice and borax mixed together is a wonderful tile and grout scrubber.
Lemon juice has citric acid that makes deodorizing and sanitizing easy without using harsh chemicals.
KATHLEEN WEAVER-ZECH & DEAN'S TEAM CHICAGO
