Lemon and Salt Wonders

_ Lemons are versatile natural option for cleaning, beauty, cooking and more. In same way salt not only increases taste in food but also has great uses for cleaning, beauty and cooking.
_ Lemons and salt when used together can create wonders
_ Lemons have high concentration of citric acid which is great for disinfecting and also cleaning.

Main ingredients are lemon and salt.

_ Stainless steel sinks can be changed from dull and stained to clean and sparkly using lemon and salt.
_ Citric acid will cut the grime and salt will help in scouring process.
_ Sprinkle little salt on your sink.
_ Squeeze lemon juice and rub entire sink with lemon peel.

_ Leave it for 20 minutes. After 20 mins clean with warm water. Sink will start shining.
_ You can see before and after changes in my images.
We can also clean faucets using lemon and salt.

_ Copper is beautiful metal in any form but it gets tarnished very quickly. Copper reacts with oxygen in air to form copper oxide which forms black Or brown tarnish on copper items. We can bring back tarnished copper items to polished and shiny form with natural available kitchen ingredients.
_ Lemon and salt removes dull well worn finish from your copper pots or any copper items. You can see your copper, brass items gleaming after polishing with lemon and salt.
_ Cut the lemon in to half. Dip it in salt and rub slowly on the copper pot to be polished.
_ Clean with water and we can see instant shine and transformation from old pot to new. (Please see my images)

_ You can see the transformation after rubbing with lemon and salt in my image

_ Dip the half sliced lemon in salt and rub on any dull steel item. You can see Instant shine.

- Lemon and salt works as wonder to remove coffee and tea stains inside cups .Lemon is an excellent cleaner as well as a natural bleacher. Salt is a natural abrasive that works well on stains .
- Add little salt inside stained cup .Squeeze little lemon juice and rub with lemon peel .
- Leave it for 20 minutes and then clean with water .

_ Lemon and salt also removes coffee ,tea stains or even sweat stains from cloth.
_ Sprinkle little salt on stained area of cloth. Rub with half sliced lemon.
_ wash the cloth with detergent. You can see in my image ( stain has been removed )

_ Lemon and salt can be used to deoderize cutting boards.The acidity of the lemon and the abrasiveness of salt will help dig in to keep those cutting boards clean and smelling fresh.
_ Salt is excellent for drawing moisture and bacteria from your cutting boards and lemon helps in smelling great.
_ Sprinkle little salt on the cutting board. Slice lemon in to half and squeeze the juice on the board .
_ Rub the cutting board using lemon peel. Leave for 15 minutes and clean with water .

_ Lemon,salt and baking soda can be used to remove light rust on steel or metal.
_ Take little baking soda in a bowl. Add salt and squeeze lime juice

_ Rub this on the rust surface and leave for half an hour.clean with water. Rust will be removed as in my image

_ I have done this density experiment using lemon and salt to teach my kid about density.
_ My kid was very excited to do this.
_ Take water in 2 glasses till rim.
_ Add 3tsp salt in one glass and don't add any salt in other glass.
_ After adding salt give a mix .After mixing we have salt water in one glass and normal water in other glass.

_ Add lemon to normal water.After adding lemon to normal water lemon will sink to the bottom .
_ Next add lemon to salt water. After adding in salt water lemon will float and not sink.
_ In normal water density of lemon is more when compared to water and it will sink.
_ When we add salt to water density of water increases.
_ Lemon will float and not sink because of less density in salt water .

_ Black heads are common problem and can be difficult to get rid of it entirely. Our skin produces lot of oil which clogs the pores and creates little plugs called black heads. They can be treated at home using natural remedy.
_ Lemon and salt works well for removing black heads. Citric acid in lemon helps to clear out the oils trapped within pores killing any germs. Salt also works as antibacterial and open the pores up allowing blackheads to be released.
Procedure for making lemon salt scrub:
_ Take tablespoon Sea salt in a bowl. Add half teaspoon lemon juice and one teaspoon water.
_ Massage this mixture in to the skin around your nose and other areas of body where you have black heads.
_ Take around 5 minutes and use circular motions with your fingers getting all of the mixture in to skin.
( Do not scrub the skin as this can make it inflamed. simply massage gently)
_ Then rinse face with warm water to remove solution and finally close the pores using splash of cold water.
_ If you do this daily you will notice skin will turn brighter, healthier and black heads free.

_ It is very important to clean fruits and vegetables thoroughly before eating.
_ Cleaning removes wax coatings, bacteria, get rid of pesticide residues and other pathogens.
_ We can clean them using natural ingredients available at home.
_ Lemon and salt works very well. Take little water in a vessel . Squeeze lemon juice and add salt to the water.
_ Soak vegetables in this water for 15 minutes.Later clean under running water and dry them. Lemon juice is antimicrobial and can destroy germs and bacteria.

_ We normally discard the lemon peels after squezzing the juice. Their are numerous uses with lemon peels.
_ I will show how to make an" ALL PURPOSE CLEANER" using lemon peels.We can use this cleaner for cleaning kitchen slabs,stove,fridge,tiles and can also be used as floor cleaner.

_ Take about 10 lemon peels.Add one cup of water and boil the peels for 10 minutes.
_ Cool them .
_ After cooling just squeeze all the peels once.
_ Remove the peels.

_ Strain the liquid using strainer. We will get clear liquid after straining
_ Dilute the liquid with one cup of water .

_ Finally add 2 teaspoon liquid soap and one teaspoon baking soda.

_ Transfer to spray bottle and use as All purpose cleaner

_ I will show diffrent uses of this" All purpose cleaner".
_ Spray the cleaner on kitchen slab
_ Scrub the surface using scrubber
_ wet the sponge with water and clean the surface.
_ You can see the change .kitchen slab starts shining and you get nice lemon freshness.

_ In similar way spray the cleaner on stove. Scrub it and wipe with sponge
_ Stove will shine after cleaning .

_ Spray the All purpose cleaner on tile surface,scrub it and wipe with wet sponge.

_ All purpose cleaner can be used for cleaning combs. Soak the combs in cleaner for sometime and clean under running water.
_ we can also clean tooth brushes using All purpose cleaner.

_ Adding lemon peel at the base of the pressure cooker before cooking prevents cooker base from turning black and cooker remains new all the time

_ Mosquitoes detest the smell of cloves and all things citrusy. This can be an easy trick to get rid of mosquitoes.
_ Samething even applies to ants. Place 5 to 6 cloves on lemon hemisphere and place in areas where their are ants.Ants will repel away .

_ We can squeeze little lemon juice while cooking rice to prevent sticky rice .( Here I added lemon juice while making biryani to make it more fluffy)
_ Adding little lemon juice on chopped vegetables like potatoes or fruits like apple prevent them from discolaration or turning black

_ After chopping garlic or onions our hands will smell with flavour of onions or garlic
_ Simple trick to get rid of the smell is take half sliced lemon and dip it in salt .Rub this on hands and clean with water .The citric acid in lemon and the exfoliation from salt should get rid of smell. We will get fresh lemony smell.