Vinegar - 1001 uses!

JellyBox

I love my vinegar softened clothes. It's the first OS thing I implemented and it's been brilliant, my clothes feel much nicer and my skin is better, I use essential oils to make it smell nice too. Also, it definitely seems to do the trick with BO, can't comment on the nappy issue though!

Also - silverchair - as in the band? If so - ace!

Steve059

Are we sure about using very cheap malt vinegar? It's usually spirit vinegar and malt extract.

Mojisola

silverchair wrote: »

Just a quick questio. Ive seen on here that if you add vinegar to the fabric softener compartment, it makes the clothes soft & kills bacteria.

I don't think it will kill bacteria - it's going to be too diluted to have any effect.

Lou76

I've just cured my hiccups.

A teaspoon of [white] vinegar, and they were gone. :T

So, what have you done [this week] with vinegar?

pigpen

put the bottle 3/4 full in the bin ... I figured if it hasn't been used in the 5 years it has been in the cupboard it is unlikely to ever be!

krlyr

pigpen wrote: »

put the bottle 3/4 full in the bin ... I figured if it hasn't been used in the 5 years it has been in the cupboard it is unlikely to ever be!

I'd have poured it down the sink or loo - if it's not going to be used for anything else, it can at least deodourise the pipes or de-scale the toilet!

Honeythief

I'd forgotten that it can cure hiccups! I used to use it for that when I was younger. Now I just drink water from the far side of a glass -- the contortions involved, and concentration on not spilling it, usually do the trick!

I'm experimenting with DIY laundry products, so I'll probably try some vinegar as a fabric softener in tonight's load of washing. And I'll probably have some lovely tangy homemade cucumber pickles with my supper. Good old vinegar. It has so many uses.

Honeythief

Haha, literally as soon as I hit Post on that, I heard white vinegar mentioned on the Simpsons! It was being recommended for cleaning gunk out of gears

System

I used it in the week to descale the kettle. I put a few drops in the water i clean the floor with and more recently i am using it as a facial toner. I used to use lemon juice but thought i'd give vinegar a go and I'm happy with the results.

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I'm pretty cheap though and in true moneysavingexpert style i just use malt vinegar.

However, i must say, i sleep on my own 5 nights out of 7 so if i go to bed stinking like a chip shop its only me that has to suffer.

camNolliesMUMMY

Sounds minging but my husbands gym vests smell of bo so I soak vinegar on the pit area as a pre treatment and now will beusing it n stead of fab ondirioner.