I bet you didn’t know ALL the GREAT uses for vinegar. This is great information. Please feel free to share with everyone you know!
Freshen up the washing machine. Clean the hoses and unclog soap scum. Once a month pour one cup of vinegar into the washing machine and run the machine through a normal cycle, without clothes.
Brighten fabric colors. Add 1/2 cup vinegar to the rinse cycle.
Take grease off suede. Dip a toothbrush in vinegar and gently brush over grease spot.
Remove tough stains. Gently rub on fruit, jam, mustard, coffee, tea. Then wash as usual.
Get smoke smell out of clothes by adding a cup of vinegar to a bath tub of hot water. Hang clothes above the steam.
Remove perspiration stains from clothes by applying one part vinegar to four parts water, then rinse.
Deodorant and anti-perspirants stains may be removed from clothing by lightly rubbing with distilled vinegar and laundering as usual.
Cotton and wool blankets become soft, fluffy and free of soap odor if 2 cups of distilled vinegar are added to the rinse cycle of the wash.
Clothes will rinse better if a cup of vinegar is added to the last rinse water. The acid in vinegar is too mild to harm fabrics but strong enough to dissolve the alkalies in soaps and detergents.
When dyeing fabric, add a cup full of distilled vinegar to the last rinse to set the color.
Nylon hose will look better and last longer if 1 tablespoon of vinegar is added to the rinse water when washing.
To obtain a sharper crease in your knit fabrics, dampen them with a cloth wrung out from a solution of 1/3 distilled vinegar and 2/3 water. Place a brown paper bag over the crease and iron.
Excess laundry suds that develop during hand laundry may be eliminated by splashing a little vinegar into the second rinse. Follow this with another rinse in plain water.
Deodorize a wool sweater: Wash sweater, then rinse in equal parts vinegar and water to remove odor.
After a hem or seam is removed, there are often unsightly holes left in the fabric. These holes can be removed by placing a cloth, moistened with
distilled vinegar, under the fabric and ironing.
Unclog steam iron by pouring equal amounts of vinegar and water into the iron’s water chamber. Turn to steam and leave the iron on for 5 minutes
in an upright position. Then unplug and allow to cool. Any loose particles should come out when you
empty the water.
Clean a scorched iron plate by heating equal parts vinegar and salt in a small pan. Then rub the solution on the cooled iron surface to remove dark
or burned stains.
Hope you found these hints as helpful as I did!
