Citrus Prove Great for Eating and Cleaning

Citrus Proves Great for Eating and Cleaning

Lemon Oil: Not lemon juice, lemon oil. Lemon oil is absolutely the best glass cleaner. If you have calcium buildup on your shower, then you need lemon oil. Simply use a piece of extra fine steel wool dipped in lemon oil to clean a shower door that you can’t see through because of the lime deposits. Once door is clean, wipe the surface with a fresh coat of lemon oil, and future lime deposits won’t have a chance. You can also use car wax to protect glass when lemon oil is not available to coat clean surface with.

Lemon Juice: Not lemon oil, lemon juice. Have a recipe that requires 1/2 of a lemon juice and don’t know what to do with the rest of the juice? Lemon juice is highly acidic and is great for a cleaning agent. Pure lemon juice is great for removing stains on many of the new solid-surface countertops. Best of all, it is nontoxic and you can even drink it.

Lemon Rind (peel): Not lemon oil and Not lemon juice, the peel. Grab a lemon a rub the whole fruit between your hands. The warmth of your hands and the pressure you apply to the skin of the lemon will extract lemon oil from its skin and your hands will smell wonderful. That’s why a lemon rind is so absolutely perfect for a deodorizer for your garbage disposal. Drop the rind into your disposal and in no time the fragrance of lemon will permeate the air around your sink. Before using the lemon rind, mix a cup of vinegar (any kind) into an ice cube tray and make cubes. Mix the water with the vinegar because the vinegar won’t freeze on its own. Make sure you mark the vinegar cubes so no one uses them in their beverages by mistake.

TIP: Bake orange of lemon rinds in your oven on low. Your home will smell sweet and fresh all day. Sprinkle on a little cinnamon if you like to step things up another notch.

Grapefruit: Grapefruit is also a great cleaner. Cut one in 1/2, dip the exposed fruit in a dish of salt and you have the best marble cleaner there is.

CAUTION: DON’T leave the citric acid on the surface any longer than it takes to remove the stain. Flood with fresh water and towel dry immediately. That’s all there is to it.

NOTE: Never mix bleach with ammonia, as a dangerous toxic chemical reaction will occur. Always check cleaner labels for bleach before adding ammonia. Bleach should always be noted on the container.

Source: The Oklahoma 1-19-06

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