How To Deep Clean And Get Rid of Bad Smells
There are many aerosols and other chemical-based products you can get at the store that will provide you with a strong and quite lovely smell. These, however, fail to effectively remove bad smells – they just add the good smell on top of the other. Usually, they do not last as long as the stink source and in a couple of hours or less you are back to the set off point, with less money of course. The solution to this problem, as usual, is quite simple and unexpected. What you really need to do in order to deep clean is to use good old baking soda. It is one of the revolutionary discoveries of humanity, although we do not credit it as such. Besides from cooking, you can use it for cleaning, washing and, of course, smell removal. Here are a few ways of using baking soda to deal with bad odours.
1. Bad smell in the fridge? No problem.
But a little bit of baking soda in an open box and leave it in the fridge overnight. It will neutralize the bad smells in your fridge.
2. No-smell cutting board.
Sprinkle baking soda over the cutting board, rub good using kitchen paper and rinse thoroughly. For better results, you might clean the cutting board with vinegar afterwards.
3. Get rid of the bad smell in the dustbin.
Put some baking soda on the bottom of the dustbin. This will prevent appearance of bad smells.
4. Sewer smell in the bathroom?
Quite often, especially in the summer time, there is a distinctive stink coming from the sewer in the bathroom or the sink. What you can do about it is put half a cup of baking soda down the sewer and run a thin stream of warm water.
5. Remove bad smells from the carpet.
Put baking soda over the carpet and let it stay overnight. This will absorb the bad smell. In the morning all you have to do is vacuum clean in order to remove the baking soda along with the odours.
6. Freshen the dresser.
Put a few little pouches of baking soda in the drawers. This will maintain the fresh smell in there.
7. Get rid of the smell in your car.
If your car smells like the last thing you ate, or spilled a drink on the floor, if you have had an animal in the car and you can tell it just from being in the car or whatever it is that makes your car smell bad, sprinkle around the car with baking soda. Wait for fifteen minutes and vacuum good.
8. Refresh the towels and the sheets.
Adding half a cup of baking soda to the rinsing water when washing the sheets or towels will refresh them. You can do the same with water which you have soaked a bunch of lavender in.