When life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. But what to do
with finishes? Besides adding lemons to drinks there are a lot of ways
to use lemons in your home. So don’t toss all those lemon peels and put
them to work. Here’s every single way you can use lemons:
Clean greasy messes
Have you got anything Greasy or
splattered stove tops? If your kitchen has been the victim of some
sloppy sautéing, try to use lemon halves before taking out possibly
toxic chemical cleaners. Add some salt for abrasion on a juiced lemon
half and rub on the greasy areas, wipe up with a towel. Be careful while
using lemon on marble counter tops, or any kind of surface that may be
sensitive to acid.
Clean coffee pot or tea kettle
For cleaning mineral deposit that
is build up in the tea kettle, fill it with water, add a handful of thin
slices of lemon peel and bring to a boil. Turn off heat and leave it
for one hour, drain and rinse well. For coffee pots, add salt, ice and
lemon rinds to the empty pot; swish and swirl for one or two minutes,
dump and rinse.
Clean the microwave
All it needs is one exploding bowl of
food to render the gunk interior of the microwave, sometimes with cement
like properties. Instead of using strong chemical cleaners, try to add
lemon rinds to a microwave safe bowl filled halfway with cold water.
Cook on high for five minutes, in order to boil the water and the steam
to condense on the walls and tops of the oven. Remove the hot bowl
carefully and clean away the dirt with a towel.
Deodorize the garbage disposal
Use lemon peels to deodorize the garbage disposal and make your kitchen
smell freshly at the same time. It is a quick way to finally dispose of
spent lemon peels after you have used them for any of these reasons.
Polish chrome and copper
A halved lemon dipped in salt or baking powder can be used to brighten
copper ware, as well as brass, stainless or chrome steel. Put a juiced
lemon half in salt, you can also use cream of tartar or baking soda
instead of the salt and rub on the affected area. Let it stay on for ten
minutes. Then rinse in warm water and polish dry.
Keep insects out
Many pests hate the acid of lemon. You can chop of the peels and place
them along thresholds, windowsills, and near any holes or cracks where
ants or pests can be entering.
Make a scented humidifier
If your house suffers from dry heat in the winter, you should put lemon
peels in a pot of water and simmer on the lowest stove top setting to
humidify and scent the air.
Refresh cutting boards
Because of lemon’s low pH, it has antibacterial properties that makes
lemon a good choice for refreshing cutting boards. After proper
disinfecting rub the surface with a halved lemon, let it sit for a few
seconds and then rinse.
Lighten age spots
A lot of folk remedies suggest using
lemon peel to help lighten age spots. You should apply a small piece to
the affected area and leave on for one hour.
Soften dry elbows
Take a half lemon sprinkled with baking soda on elbows, just place the
elbow in the lemon and twist the lemon as if you are juicing it for more
than ten minutes. Rinse and dry.
Use on the skin
Lemon peels can be very lightly rubbed on your face for a nice skin tonic, then rinse. Always be careful around your eyes.
Make a sugar scrub
Mix a half cup of sugar with finely chopped lemon peel and enough olive
oil to get a paste. Wet your body in the shower, turn off the water and
massage sugar mix all over your skin, rinse, but be soft.
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