Unusual and useful applications of lemon in the home: 10 Ways

Lemon - a fruit known since childhood. It is added to hot beverages at the first sign of colds, with him bake cakes, cook a variety of dishes, added to tea. But, in addition to its application in cooking and alternative medicine, there are many ways you can use in everyday life. A total of 10 variants of the use of lemon in the home greatly simplify life and will save on unnecessary spending.

lemons

Tips for using lemon farm

Probably, every housewife boasts two-three ways to use this useful citrus to make the daily care of the house easier. So, using lemon:

lemon zest
Fruit salad
furniture polish
Stains from sweat
Silver plate
  1. Get rid of unpleasant odors. Leave overnight lemon zest in the shoes the next morning you will not feel bad smell in shoes, and on your hands or a cutting board was a smell of fish, onions or garlic, enough to wipe hands and surface of the board with lemon juice.
  2. Use natural bleaching. Whitening things dissolve half a cup of lemon juice in five liters of hot water and leave things soaked for about 20 minutes. A rid of stubborn stains help lemon slice, previously soaked in a soda solution. Apply to the stain and leave for 10-15 minutes, then wash the thing.
  3. Retain freshness of fruits and greens. Save presentable slicing fruit on the holiday table and fruit salad helps the lemon juice. Sprinkle them fruits that quickly darken - bananas, pears, apples, and before the guests arrive they will not lose their fresh appearance. And also comes with greens - to save the presentation should sprinkle it with lemon juice.
  4. Remove stains from the green fodder. Often the processing of abrasions and wounds on hands zelyonkoj remain bright green spots. They look sloppy, but do not be upset and stay out of this house. again to get rid of them will help the lemon. To do this, mix a small amount of alcohol and lemon juice and soaking in the cotton wool, wipe the stain your place.
  5. Polish furniture. Not necessarily to buy expensive furniture polish. Try to mix olive oil, lemon oil, lemon juice and wipe the surface with a solution. In addition to the guaranteed shine and fresh fragrance.
  6. Struggling with scale. Hard water and salts therein lead to the formation of scale in the kettle unpleasant. One of the easiest and economical ways of cleaning it is usual citric acid. Diluted in a ratio of 1 tablespoon of powder to 1 liter of water. The solution is boiled in the kettle and leave overnight. Remove scum using a rigid brush, then rinse the kettle and boil it twice.
  7. Remove stains from sweat. It happens that brings favorite deodorant and clothes there are traces of sweat. Do not worry, try mixing equal parts water with lemon juice, apply the solution onto the stain or soak clothes in it for a while.
  8. Cleanse and refresh refrigerator. To remove unpleasant odor from a refrigerator by using a pair of lemon juice droplets on a sponge. Leave overnight sponge on a shelf in the refrigerator, and in the morning the odor will be over.
  9. Get rid of moths in the closet. If you started up in the wardrobe moth, cut in the shape of a spiral of lemon peel and hang it in the closet. Thus, you get rid of bad neighborhood, and things will become faint citrus scent.
  10. Purify silverware stain. Dark spots on the silverware is well removed with lemon juice. Apply it to a cloth and then polish the tarnished silver fork, spoon or knife.

Only 10 variants of application of lemon in the home, which will simplify the work at home and help save the family budget.

Gadgets for citrus

In order to even more simplify the lives of housewives, engineers are constantly coming up with a variety of useful devices. And it is not surprising that such a demand not only in cooking but also in the everyday life of lemon invented many useful devices.

The most interesting of them - the spray-dispenser citrus.

Spray atomizer for lemon

Cut away the top of the lemon, is screwed into the spray bottle and get the lemon juice at the touch of a button.