Baking Soda, Vinegar, and Lemon Juice — in the Laundry?
By Chris Baskind in Home & Garden
Laundry is responsible for a lot of your energy use — and chemical exposure, too. The products you put in your washer and dryer are loaded with petroleum-based chemicals, perfumes, and optical brighteners.
Fortunately, a lot of these can be replaced with inexpensive natural products. Try a quarter cup of baking soda in the wash cycle to soften clothes and absorb odors. A quarter cup of white vinegar in the rinse cycle will strip soap residue from both your clothes and the washing machine. And a little lemon juice in the rinse is great for brightening whites.
So head to the kitchen before you fire up that washing machine. You’ll save money while kicking chemicals to the curb.
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Vinegar is ok if used every so often, but if you use it weekly, it can damange the lining of the laundry drum. I suspect the same is true of lemon juice. Both can also damange the lining of a dish washwer
I use 7th generation products for laundry and dishes; they are plant based and work very well. Also, water, white vinegar, and a drop of castille soap cleans windows amazingly.