These days, there is a lot of emphasis on using environmentally amiable cleaning products. The purpose of this article, Vinegar-Floor Cleaning Tips, is to justify to you how you can use a common household ingredient as a not-so-common (and pretty good) floor cleaner.
First, what is vinegar? If you are a wine drinker, you probably already know the answer. When wine sours, it is said to "turn into vinegar." And this is exactly what it does. In fact, the word vinegar is derived from an Old French term vin aigre, which verily means "sour wine."
Vinegar is the resultant product of ethanol fermentation, that is when the ethanol changes due to the performance of yeasts or bacteria in an anaerobic environment (a finished container.) Upon fermentation, the ethanol turns into ethanoic acid, which is more commonly known by its other name, "acetic acid." This acid, it turns out, can be utilized in many ways, such as cleaning floors.
If your floor is made of linoleum, you can clean it with a solution made from 1 cup (240 mL) vinegar in 1 gallon (3.8 L) of water. Clean stains by outside them with undiluted vinegar for fifteen minutes. For extra-tough stains, apply the vinegar. Supervene up by applying baking soda, and then scrub the area with a brush.
Mix 1 cup (240mL) white vinegar, 1 cup (240mL) alcohol, and 1 cup (240 mL) water. Add a few drops of dishwashing liquid, and you have created a "spray and wipe" floor cleaner.
So far, we have been discussing how vinegar can be used to clean bare floors. In case you think that this may be of miniature use to you because you have mostly carpeted floors, well, I have good news: vinegar also works wonders on carpeted flooring.
You can bring out the color in carpet by brushing it with a solution made from 1 cup (240 mL) vinegar in 1 gallon (3.8 L) water. If your carpets have light scorch marks or stains from anti-perspirants, you can alleviate them by rubbing lightly with right vinegar. You can clean up pet stains by pouring on undiluted vinegar, wiping it up, and then blotting the area with cold water.
One note of caution: Vinegar can damage marble, so don't use it on your marble floors.
While we are talking floors, let's move out to the yard. You can use vinegar as a weed killer by spraying it on the foilage and roots of unwanted plants.
You can also use vinegar to deter ants from entering your home. Spray a 1:1 vinegar to water solution all colse to their entry points, such as windowsills and door jambs.
In conclusion, I hope that I have made you aware that this common household item isn't just for salad dressings. I hope that I have given you needful data as to how you can use vinegar to clean your floors. I also hope that I have piqued your interest in other uses for the very versatile and reasonable soured wine: vinegar. (References: heinzvinegar.com, vinegartips.com)
Vinegar - Floor Cleaning Guidelines