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10 Ways to Clean with Lemons!

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With Spring officially here, we have a natural and good smelling way of cleaning your home!! Lemons!!

10 Ways to Use Lemons for Cleaning

 

  1. Freshen Your Garbage Disposal – After having all that junk being ground up in your garbage disposal, chances are it will start to stink. Put a quarter of a sliced up lemon in the disposal, run some hot water, and flip on the disposal switch. Now your kitchen will smell lemony and refreshing!
  2. Wash Your Dishes – Got greasy dishes? Get rid of the grease by adding 1 tsp of lemon juice to your detergent and watch that grease disappear as you scrub!
  3. Brighten Your Whites – Does your family have some whites that need to be brightened up a little bit? Whiten your white laundry naturally with lemon juice! Add ½ lemon juice to the rinse cycle of a regular sized load of white or “bleach safe” clothes.
  4. Clean Coffee/Tea Pots – Your coffee and tea pots naturally just build us daily minerals from being used… So how do you get rid of these build ups? Use slices of lemons! Boil them in the pot and let sit for 1-2 hours. Then rinse out. No more build up!
  5. Polish Metal Pots and Faucets – Dip half of a lemon in salt, scrub away, and watch it SPARKLE! Try to steer clear of anything brass plated though.
  6. Natural Oven Spray – Get away from those toxic chemical oven cleaners that make your whole house stink! Let’s go the natural way. Mix together some lemon juice, water, and baking soda into a gel like paste. Coat the inside of the oven with this paste and let sit for 20 minutes. Rinse well and there you go! You got a clean, nice smelling oven.
  7. Polish Furniture – Mix a pint of mineral oil with one tablespoon lemon juice. Pour into a spray bottle and spray away. Wipe down what you sprayed and no more grim or hand prints!
  8. Toilet Bowl Spray – Put ½ lemon juice in the toilet bowl and sprinkle some baking soda around the bowl evenly. Let sit for 15 minutes and then scrub all of the bowl and flush!
  9. Sanitize Your Microwave – Slice up a lemon and drop into a bowl of water. Microwave the bowl on high for 1 minute. Wipe down the inside of the microwave as soon as the minute is over. Squeaky Clean!
  10. Wash Windows – Say goodbye to streaks! Get rid of grim and hand prints on your windows with 2 tablespoons lemon juice, ½ cup white vinegar, and 1 quart of warm water. Wash down and dry!

Let us know if you try any of these tricks for cleaning!

Happy Spring from The Heilbrun Team!

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Supporting Orting!

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Hey town of Orting! Come by our office and buy some paper daffodils! All donations go towards building the Orting Daffodil Float for the Daffodil Parade! When you buy daffodils from our office, we put your name on the paper daffodil you purchased and put it in our office window to show all the people who have donated towards the Orting Daffodil Float!
$1 (cash) per daffodil.

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9 Household Uses for Rice

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9 Household Uses for Rice

1. Coffee Grinder Cleaner- Uncooked rice pulls moisture and oils out of things. If you put 1-2 Tablespoons of uncooked rice into your coffee grinder and grind it, it will help clean your coffee grinder. Just simply rinse it out after. This helps sharpen the blades too!
2. Heat and/or Cold Pack- Take a single sock or small pillow case and fill with uncooked rice. You can then heat it up for a minute and have a hot pack or freeze and have a cold pack! Add some essential oils (about 10 drops) to the uncooked rice inside for a good fragrance!
3. Clump Free Salt- Have you ever wondered why salt sometimes clumps? It is the moisture inside the shaker. If you add some uncooked rice to your salt shaker, the rice will pull the moisture from the salt so no more clumps!
4. Rust Free Tools- Moisture also causes metal to rust. If you put your tools in a container filled with uncooked rice after using them, it will help them to not rust.
5. Air Freshener- If a certain room smells like mildew, put 10 drops of essential oil and uncooked rice into a bowl and set it in the room. The rice quickly captures the moisture in the air and the essential oil leaves a refreshing scent!
6. Ripening Fruit- Uncooked rice traps ethylene gas and more gas means faster ripening of fruit. If you completely cover your fruit in uncooked rice for 24 hours, it will help with the fast ripening.
7. Shaping Pie Crust- Help pie crust keep its shape by placing a cheesecloth or parchment paper on the pie crust then put a generous amount of uncooked rice on top and bake.
8. Keep the Rice Water- Rice water is also a helpful household item so don’t throw it out! Clean glass, mirrors, and it makes a great natural starch while ironing clothes. It contains a lot of nutrients so it would also be great for watering house plants or your outside garden. Rice water only holds the nutrients for 24 hours though.
9. Natural Scrubber- Add ½ cup of rice, soap, and water in a container and mix all together. The rice grains will scrub away dirt and grime while the soap and water sanitize.

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