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Discover the surprisingly effective cleaning trick of mixing detergent with salt! This simple household hack can help tackle stubborn dirt, grease, and grime using items you probably already have at home.
In this video, you'll learn:
Why salt and detergent work so well together
The best way to mix them
Where you can safely use this cleaning solution
Common mistakes to avoid
Easy cleaning tips that save time and effort
Whether you're cleaning your kitchen, bathroom, or other areas around the house, this budget-friendly DIY method might become one of your favorite cleaning secrets.
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https://eliasyoder.com
Discover the surprisingly effective cleaning trick of mixing detergent with salt! This simple household hack can help tackle stubborn dirt, grease, and grime using items you probably already have at home.
In this video, you'll learn:
Why salt and detergent work so well together
The best way to mix them
Where you can safely use this cleaning solution
Common mistakes to avoid
Easy cleaning tips that save time and effort
Whether you're cleaning your kitchen, bathroom, or other areas around the house, this budget-friendly DIY method might become one of your favorite cleaning secrets.
👍 If you enjoy practical home hacks and easy cleaning tips, be sure to Like, Subscribe, and turn on notifications so you never miss a new video.
#CleaningHacks #DIYCleaning #HomeCleaning #LaundryDetergent #SaltHack #HouseholdTips #CleaningSecrets #LifeHacks #EasyCleaning #HomeTips
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00:00Salt. That is the thing nobody tells you. You have been washing your dishes and scrubbing your sink and fighting
00:08your burnt pans with soap alone all your life. And soap is a fine thing, but soap on its own
00:15only slides over the worst of it.
00:17Add salt to that soap and you have something else altogether, something with teeth in it, something that will take
00:24the black off a pan you were ready to throw out and bring a dull old sink up bright as
00:29the day it was set in.
00:30It is the oldest trick there is, and it costs you pennies. And once you have kept a jar of
00:36it under your sink, you will wonder why you ever bought half the bottle standing there.
00:40Let me show you how it is mixed and everything it will do. Here is why the salt changes everything,
00:47for it is worth understanding.
00:50Soap does one job and only one. It cuts grease, loosens it, lets the water carry it off. And that
00:57is grand for a greasy plate.
00:59But burnt on food is not grease. It is stuck fast to the metal, and no amount of soap will
01:06shift a thing that is stuck.
01:07That wants abrasion, something gritty to work under it and break its hold. And that is what the salt is
01:14doing in this mixture, giving your soap a fine, gentle grit so it can lift what it could only slide
01:20over before.
01:21And when you add a little baking soda to the sides, you get a third thing, an alkali that cuts
01:27grease harder still and takes up the sour smells rather than covering them over.
01:32Soap to cut, salt to lift, soda to freshen. Three jobs in one jar. And that is the whole of
01:40it. Quick word before we go further.
01:43My name is Esther Yoder, and the old household ways handed down to me, the kind I am sharing today,
01:49and a great many more besides, are far more than I could ever fit into one video.
01:54I have gathered the whole of them into a book, and you will find it at EliasYoder.com. If today's
02:01tips serve you, that is where the rest of what my mother and grandmother taught me lives.
02:06All in the one place. Now, to the mixing.
02:10My mother taught me to reach for the salt box before ever I reached for a scouring pad. And her
02:16mother taught her, for salt was on every table and in every kitchen long before there was a cleaning aisle
02:22in any store.
02:23She used to say that salt was the housewife's best friend, and always had been. That it seasons your food,
02:30and cures your meat, and scours your pots, and takes a stain out of your linen. And no other one
02:36thing does so much for so little. And she was right.
02:40So this jar is only her old wisdom, put into a bottle. And here is how you make it. Four
02:46things, and a bowl. That is all. Begin with a cup of plain liquid dish soap, whatever ordinary sort you
02:53wash dishes with, poured into your bowl.
02:56Then a cup of water added to it. Now do not think the water is watering it down and weakening
03:02it. It is not. Straight dish soap is too thick and syrupy to spread or pour properly. And most of
03:09it is wasted.
03:11Thinned with an equal measure of water, it flows. It spreads where you put it. It rinses clean. And it
03:17goes twice as far. So you get more cleaning out of the same soap, not less.
03:22Then in goes your salt. Two good tablespoons of plain table salt. And that is your grit, the whole point
03:29of the recipe. And last, a tablespoon of baking soda for the extra scour and the sweetening of the smell.
03:36Stir it all together and stir it properly, working it until the salt and the soda are carried all through
03:42and not sitting in a heap at the bottom of the bowl. Then pour it into a clean, empty container
03:48and cap it.
03:48A jar does fine, but if you have an old squeeze bottle saved, that is handier still, for you can
03:55put the mixture just where you want it with no dipping or dripping.
03:59It will keep well under the sink with the lid on and out of the sun. Make up enough for
04:04a month or so at a time, rather than a great batch to stand all year.
04:08And give it a shake before each use, for the salt and soda settle as it stands, and that is
04:14only natural.
04:15Now, everything it does, and there is a great deal. Take the sink first, for it is the truest test
04:21and the fastest reward.
04:23Wet the whole basin, squeeze your mixture round it, and scrub with a sponge or a soft cloth.
04:30You will feel the difference at once. The soap loosening the greasy film that the daily dish washing lays down.
04:36The salt working under the dull scale and lifting it. The soda taking away the sour smell that gathers about
04:43a drain.
04:44And here is a small care that makes it look professional. If your sink is brushed steel, it has a
04:50grain. Fine lines running all one way.
04:53And you scrub along those lines and never across them. So you leave no mark that shows.
04:59Then rinse it out well. And here is the step that most folks skip and it makes all the difference.
05:04Buff the whole thing dry with a cloth instead of letting it dry itself.
05:09Water left to dry on its own is what leaves the spots and the cloudiness.
05:13Scrub, rinse, dry, and your sink shines.
05:17Now the burnt pans, which is the job this jar was born for.
05:20When something has caught and burnt fast to the bottom of a pan, put a good spoonful of your mixture
05:26right onto the burnt place.
05:27And then simply wash it as you always would, scrubbing with your sponge.
05:32And you will find it lifts far faster and far easier than soap ever managed.
05:36And the pan comes up brighter besides.
05:39For a bad one, do not stand there wearing out your arm.
05:43Put the mixture on, pour in a little hot water, and let the whole thing stand and soak a good
05:48half hour or more.
05:50Time does the work that your shoulder should not have to.
05:53The soaking softens the burnt crust and loosens its grip.
05:56And then a light scrub takes it off.
05:59Patience beats force every time on a burnt pan.
06:02And for the very worst, the one you scorched black and had near given up on, here is the way
06:07to get the most out of this jar.
06:09Put the mixture in the pan with an inch of water, set it over a low heat, and let it
06:15simmer gently a few minutes.
06:16Then take it off the heat and let it stand and cool.
06:19That gentle warmth drives the soap and the soda down underneath the burnt crust, and breaks its hold on the
06:26metal.
06:26And when you come back and scrub, the black lifts away in sheets where before it would not move at
06:31all.
06:32Two cautions there.
06:34Let the pan cool before you scrub it, and never plunge a hot pan into cold water, for the sudden
06:39shock can warp it.
06:41And I will be straight with you.
06:43A pan burnt truly black to the bone may want a second going over, and that is no failure.
06:49But this will take off far more than you expect, and gently.
06:52Now a word of care about the salt, since grit is the whole point.
06:56Salt is an abrasive, mild but real.
06:59So it is right at home on your steel sink, your steel and iron pans, your porcelain, and your tile.
07:05But go gently on the delicate things.
07:08On a non-stick coated pan, on polished or coated finishes, on any fine surface you would hate to scratch,
07:16use it with a light hand and a soft cloth and no hard pressure.
07:20Or leave it be and use plain soap there.
07:23Match the grit to the surface and you will never do a bit of harm.
07:26Then your spoons and forks.
07:29Cutlery dulls over the years with a film that ordinary washing never quite takes off.
07:33And this brings it back handsomely.
07:36A little of the mixture on a cloth, rub each piece over, rinse, and then dry them at once with
07:42a towel.
07:42For spots show on cutlery worse than on anything else in the kitchen.
07:47Dried straight away, they come out gleaming.
07:50It does your plastic dishes and cups a world of good as well.
07:53For plastic holds a greasy film and a stale smell that washing alone never fully clears.
07:58And here the soap cuts the film while the soda draws the smell out of the plastic itself.
08:04It will clean out the inside of a microwave and an ice box for those of you who have them.
08:10Taking off the dried spills and the grease and, better still, taking the odor out of the box.
08:15And it does your countertops and your stove top and all the greasy places around them.
08:20And it will do your whole bathroom besides the same jar.
08:24The basin, the tub, the tile, the toilet.
08:26And because of the soda in it, the room is left genuinely fresh rather than perfumed over the top of
08:33the smell.
08:34One jar for the kitchen and the bath both and nothing else needed.
08:39Two plain rules of safety before we go on and I never skip them.
08:42First, never mix this with bleach.
08:46And do not use it on the surface where you have just used bleach.
08:50Household cleaners and bleach together can make a harmful gas.
08:54And there is no reason on earth to mix them.
08:57Second, label your jar plainly and keep it up high away from the little children.
09:02For it looks like nothing much and is not for a child to get into.
09:07Now think a moment about why nobody ever taught you a thing this plain.
09:12Why there is a row of five bottles under your sink instead of one jar you mixed yourself.
09:18It is worse than a plot, for no one had to arrange it.
09:22There is a great fortune in selling a woman a separate bottle for every surface in her house,
09:28bought again and again forever.
09:30And there is not a penny in teaching her that soap and salt and soda stirred in a bowl
09:36will do the lot of it.
09:37So the shelves filled with bottles, one for this and one for that,
09:42and the plain old knowing of what soap does and what grit does,
09:46which every grandmother had by heart, simply stopped being handed down
09:51because no one profits by the telling.
09:54My mother reached for the salt box her whole life and kept a house spotless.
09:59And somewhere between her kitchen and ours, we were taught that every job needs its own label.
10:05The mending of it is one bowl and five minutes.
10:09You stir your cup of soap and your cup of water and your two spoons of salt and your spoon
10:14of soda.
10:15You pour it in a jar and you set it under the sink.
10:18And it scours your sink bright, lifts your burnt pans, shines your cutlery,
10:24cleans your plastic and your ice box and your bathroom, and takes the sour smells off with it.
10:29And the row of bottles you have been buying, you simply stop buying.
10:34That is how it comes home, one stirred jar at a time, the keeping of your own house back in
10:40your own hands.
10:42So here is what I would ask of you.
10:44This week, mix one jar and take it straight to your worst burnt pan, the one you have been meaning
10:50to throw out.
10:51And then come back and tell me in the comments whether it came clean.
10:55For I do dearly love to hear a thing saved that was near thrown away.
11:00And tell me too, while you are there, your county and the age of your house.
11:04For the old places have the hard water and the old fixtures where a good scouring jar earns its keep
11:11the most.
11:12And I learn from every one of you how it goes where you live.
11:15And if your own mother or grandmother had a homemade cleaner I have not named, tell me that most of
11:22all.
11:22For that is how this goes. We share what we were given.
11:25I read every comment and I learn from you the way the old women learned from one another across the
11:32fence line,
11:32one kitchen and one season at a time.
11:36Next time I will show you the other plain mixtures worth keeping, made up under your sink,
11:41for the windows and the floors and the wash, so that between them you need buy almost nothing from that
11:47cleaning aisle at all.
11:48There is a right and an old way to keep a house that runs on soap and salt and soda
11:55and vinegar and a little knowing.
11:57But this week you start with the salt.
12:00You stir it into your soap with a little water and a spoon of soda.
12:04You keep the jar by the sink and you take it to your sink and your burnt pans and your
12:09cutlery and your bathroom.
12:10And you watch one cheap jar do the work of that whole costly row.
12:15And you will understand, as my mother did at her own kitchen table, that salt was always the housewife's best
12:22friend.
12:22That soap alone was never enough.
12:25And that the thing your pans were wanting all along was sitting in the salt box the whole time.
12:31The house kept the plain old way is the one that remembers how the old women scoured everything they owned
12:37with soap, salt and soda stirred in a bowl.
12:41And that is a thing we are only just starting to remember.
12:44We usually have whiteishes about fruit barks at a Camping Room line
12:44and we will find that summer in December.
12:44And that is something we have much more of a fragment of this.
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