In the time of this pandemic cleanliness, safety and hygiene are very important. And along with personal hygiene, it is also important to keep your surroundings and environment clean and this starts from your own home.
Cleaning your house is important to maintain a distance from the disease. Along with sweeping, brooming, and washing, dusting is also a very important part of cleaning your home. In this article, you will learn about different dusting hacks that will make your home safer.
Dusting hacks for a safer home:
Using coffee filters for cleaning electronics:
These can be used for cleaning electronic items. If you use coffee filters then you don’t need any chemical spray that may damage your devices like a computer or DVD player or TV.
Using olive oil for surfaces:
This is mainly used to clean items made of stainless steel. Use a soft cloth for dusting. Put some olive oil on it and clean the surface. It also shows amazing results in cleaning any spots on the surfaces. It can be used for pans, stainless steel, and other appliances.
Using shaving cream for cleaning:
Shaving cream helps to clean the stains of water for different surfaces like mirrors, glass, or any other surface where you have stains of water. You just need to put the shaving cream on the surface and leave it for 15 minutes and then wipe it.
Baking soda with vinegar for cleaning:
This can mainly be used for cleaning washroom things like a bathtub and washbasin etc. For preparing this take one cup of baking powder and half soda. Pour some hot water and mix it well. Leave it for some time and let it settle. Drain the water from it and then it is ready to use. You will get really good results. You can also use this mixture for cleaning toilets.
Using the lemon for cleaning the microwave:
Use essential oils along with lemon for better results. Take a microwave-safe bowl and all the essential oils in it and add lemon juice to it. Microwave it for about 10 to 15 minutes maximum and let it be inside for some time. This will allow the steam to clean the walls of your microwave. After some time take it out, use any soft sponge or cloth to clean inside the microwave.
Cleaning the pet hairs:
People who have pets can understand that cleaning pet hair from sofas, carpets, beds, couches, mats, etc is not an easy task. But it can be done with rubber gloves. Rubber gloves give amazing results in removing pet hairs from different places. It is a very simple process. You just have to wear the rubber gloves and rub them against the surface you have to clean.
This will create a charge and all the pet hair will stick to it. After using them, wash the gloves under running water. Hence they are easy to use, durable, and easily available.
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Cleaning the mattress:
Usually, we just wash bed sheets and pillowcases and just clean the mattress with a cloth. It is important to maintain complete cleanliness and hence the mattress should also be cleaned properly.
Though we cannot just wash our mattresses we have another way to do this. You can use soda and vinegar for cleaning the mattress. You have to spray the vinegar over the mattress or where it is dirty or have any spots and then sprinkle baking soda over it.
Cover the area or the mattress with a towel and leave it for about two hours. Now you can clean it with a vacuum cleaner. You will get nice results.
Using socks for cleaning:
Cleaning blinds is a quite difficult job and many times in a hurry it is not done properly. Using socks for doing this will make it easier as well as fun. You need to take a mixture of water and vinegar in equal proportions and dip the sock in the mixture and then clean the blinds with the socks. All the dirt will get on the socks and you will get clean blinds.
Mainly the disease arises from or around the garbage or the waste material so disposing of them probably is very important. But before disposing of it, it is important to detox them. Lemons or limes are used to detox the garbage. Put a half-cut or quarterly cut lemon in the garbage.
Using vodka for cleaning carpets:
Using clear alcohol (vodka) c is used for this hack. Besides this white wine can also be used for this purpose. First of all blot the stain and then pour any of the above-mentioned alcohol. You will get a Clean carpet.
Using a lint roller for cleaning:
It can be used to clean different corners or places of your home. Especially if you have a pet, then Cleaning pet hair from all the different areas is difficult, a lint roller can be used for this. Along with this, it is also used for cleaning lamps or curtains, etc.
Cleaning the small areas or corners with a paintbrush: It is sometimes difficult to clean the small corners of shelves or any other place, these painting brushes can be used for Cleaning these corners.
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Cleaning the ceiling fans with a pillowcase:
You just have to slide a pillowcase over the blade of the ceiling fan. In this way, the dust will stick to the pillow and not fall on the furniture or floor.
Bottom line:
Keeping your surroundings clean is very important whether it’s your home or environment. In this article, some dusting hacks will help you to keep your house clean in a more easy as well as effective way. These are very simple hacks that anyone can try at their homes.
