Safe means for washing dishes: what can and should be washed dishes

The deeper the chemical and technological developments penetrate our lives, the more often we think about safety andwe turn to the experience of our ancestors. For example, if we talk about safe detergents, it is useful to remember what our mothers and grandmothers washed cups and glasses.

They used "cheap" disposable remedies to maintain the cleanliness of utensils: baking soda, mustard powder, laundry soap, table vinegar, and also knew a lot of secrets that allowed washing both fat and soot and limescale. Today, from the simplest ingredients, if desired, you can cook manually an environmentally friendly dishwashing detergent. Let's talk about this in more detail.

Let's turn to the history of

Cleaners of the "Fairy" type appeared on a free sale in the mid-late 90s of the last century. Then it was a breakthrough! One drop could wash the mountain of dishes that had accumulated after the birthday. And the smells: a spring bouquet, a citrus mix, a green apple. .. However, today the issue of safety rises above efficiency, economy and pleasant aroma. Expensive eco-friendly products are increasingly appearing in advertising. But instead of overpaying for foreign innovative developments, it is worth remembering what Russian women used successfully.

Remember, as in the tale of KI Chukovsky "Fedorino Mountain" Fedor called the runaway dishes home and promised to clean it with sand, pellet with boiling water? This is one of the old ways of washing dishes. In the old days, the dishes were rubbed with sand, sedge, nettle, washed with lye( water infusion of wood ash).By the way, sand and grass are still in the course of tourists.

Later on the sinks of Soviet women appeared laundry soap, baking soda, mustard. These products, which are always found in any kitchen, perfectly wash the dishes, while being completely safe. It is on them and should be guided, if the hostess worried about the safety of detergent.

Sorceress-soda and an indispensable mustard

Baking soda is the most popular means for cleaning a dark plaque with various utensils and cutlery. Having a fine crystalline structure, it has a soft abrasive effect and cleans to a shine and pleasant squeak. Baking soda can be used in two ways:

• dissolve soda in water and wash( if necessary, soak) dishes in it;
• pour soda onto a sponge and wipe off dirt.

After handling the dishes with soda, thoroughly wash it and wipe it dry.

Baking soda can be successfully used for washing mugs, tea cups, glasses of glass. It perfectly removes dark stains from tea and coffee. Many people are familiar with the situation when glassware with a corrugated pattern ceases to shine and becomes covered with a touch of dust left in the notches.

Wine glasses, wine glasses and faceted glasses will acquire the original shine if you walk through the pattern with a sponge soaked in a soda gruel, and then rinse the dishes with water. The same method will help to relieve the plates of dark traces, as a rule, appearing over time on their lower part with insufficiently thorough daily washing.

Advice: soda perfectly copes with fat, but you can not use it to clean dishes with non-stick coating.

Similar soda properties have mustard powder. It can be used in the same way: in solution or directly applied to a sponge. However, it should be noted that mustard is more expensive than soda. But if there was no baking soda at hand, the mustard becomes indispensable as an effective natural dishwashing detergent. Crystal shine and fat removal - provided.

Vinegar for shining

Table vinegar is another inhabitant of any kitchen, which is always ready to help in the fight for the cleanliness of dishes. For daily washing of dishes and cutlery it is not used, but if you need to return the radiance of glassware, rid it of lime scale or disinfect, there is no better way to find it. Prepare the vinegar water from:

• 1 liter.warm water;
• from 3 tbsp.l.up to 200 ml of table vinegar. Depends on the goal: to give shine to the glass 3 tablespoons will suffice.l., and for disinfection you can take more.

For glow, rinse with clear vinegar water with clean glassware. Processing with an aqueous solution of table vinegar can also restore the shine to steel pans, scoops and pans. To do this, wipe them with a sponge soaked in vinegar water, if necessary, rubbing the dirty places more intensively, and wipe dry with a towel.

An aqueous solution of table vinegar( 1: 5) can be disinfected with kitchen appliances such as cutting boards, a storage container for cutlery, a tray from the dryer for plates, etc.

We prepare the dishwashing detergent

If you want to wash the disheshabitual "washing" means, and not just soap the sponge with soap and sprinkle with soda, you can cook it with your own hands. At the same time it will turn out to be safe and not too expensive. We offer two options:

• liquid;
• cleaning paste.

Both products can be stored, so they do not need to be cooked every time before washing dishes. The ingredients of both recipes include soap. For a liquid product with soap you will need:

• water - 0,5 l;
• laundry soap( 72%, 200 g. Piece) - 1/8 piece;
• liquid glycerin - 5 tsp;
• Alcohol tincture of calendula - 1 tbsp.l.;
• medical alcohol - 4 tbsp.l;
• bottle with dispenser.

Preparation:

1. Grind the laundry soap. This can be done with a grater or a sharp knife. Transfer the shavings to a saucepan.
2. Put the saucepan with soap and water bath. Gradually pour water to it. A homogeneous mass should be obtained.
3. Add the remaining ingredients from the list. Stir well and pour the remedy into the bottle.

To prepare a cleaning paste with soap you will need:

• hot water - 1 glass;
• laundry soap - 1 piece;
• 6 tbsp.l.baking soda;
• storage container, for example, a plastic container.

Tip: when calculating the ingredients, when taking soap in the amount of 1 piece( 200 g.), You get a lot of money. If you prepare this pasta for the first time, it is better to proportionally reduce their number 2-3 times.

Preparation:

1. Grind the laundry soap with a grater. You can also adjust it with a sharp knife in small pieces.
2. Transfer the laundry soap into a saucepan and put on a water bath, gradually adding water. You can simply fill the chips with hot water and let it brew, stirring occasionally. But it will take more time.
3. When the mass with soap becomes homogeneous, add soda to it. Whip with a mixer or whisk and place the paste with soap and container.

Several secrets for pure radiance

If the hostess decided not to use the store facilities full of chemistry, and go to soap, soda, vinegar and other natural products, she should know a few secrets:

• darkened cutlery brightens well the water left after cooking potatoes. It should be soaked forks and spoons for 6-8 minutes. Then they will need to be washed underwater and rubbed.
• if you do not have a brush close at hand, you can clean the bottle with a narrow neck by placing an egg shell and some water in it. It must be actively shaken, and then drain the water and the shell.
• glass decanter, whose bottom is white with calcareous plaque, can be cleaned with acetic essence( 70%).Enough of 1 tsp, which must be added to the water and pour the decanter to a contaminated place. After a few minutes, the solution must be washed off and the carafe thoroughly rinsed with water.
• if something burned in an enamel pan, it is worth pouring on the bottom of 3-5 st.l.baking soda and pour hot water just above the burnt place. Bring the water to a boil and let it cool down. Then rinse thoroughly with clean water.
• burnt frying pan will help to clean table vinegar. Pour 200 ml of vinegar into it and add water to cover the burnt place. Boil for 5-10 minutes, then rinse the frying pan with detergent.

When the question arises, what to wash the dishes in order not to harm their own health, it is useful to remember the old kind of economic soap, soda and vinegar. You can also prepare a special tool for washing dishes - the most that neither is natural, in the naturalness of the ingredients which you can be sure of at 100!