10+ ways hydrogen peroxide can improve your health and your home
You can never have too many clever home hacks, they can make a huge difference in your everyday life and save you tons of money. I bet you didn’t think hydrogen peroxide could do much more than clean your cuts, but it actually has a multitude of uses that will blow your mind.
Here are 12 useful tricks with hydrogen peroxide
These are too good for anyone to miss out on!
1. Magical whitening
Hydrogen peroxide can whiten many things. Whether it’s fabric, teeth, or those grimy fingernails, the peroxide will make it whiter. For fingernails and fabrics, soak a cotton ball in peroxide and get to worth. For teeth, just dip your toothbrush in it, and you’ll have some pearly whites.
2. Make a detox bath
With all the talk about Covid-19, a detox bath can really help you. Add a cup and a half of 35% food grade hydrogen peroxide to your bath water and it’ll wipe away all the germs. Just make sure you only do it once a month for detoxification and oxygenation purposes.
3. Helps clear up acne
Hydrogen peroxide can help speed up the healing process with acne. Put peroxide on a cotton ball, dabbing the infected areas on your face. Only do this a moderation, some bacterias are good so you don’t want them all gone.
4. Soften calluses
No one liked rough calluses on your hands and feet, the good news, there’s an easy cure for this. Add some hydrogen peroxide to warm water and soak your calluses for a bit.
5. Make your mirrors sparkle
Hydrogen peroxide is a great substitute for Windex and other mirror cleaners. Just put some in a spray bottle, spray the mirror, and then wipe with paper towels or squeegee it off.
6. Sponge disinfectant
Sponges can hold all kinds of gross bacteria and buying new ones all the time gets annoying. Just soak your sponges in hydrogen peroxide to extend their life span.
7. Clean fruits and vegetables
To really clean fruits and vegetables, soak them in cold water with 1/4 hydrogen peroxide and you’ll get off any unwanted germs. Make sure to rinse them in regular cold water once they’re done soaking.
8. Keep salads fresh
Don’t throw out wilted salads, hydrogen peroxide will fix those too. Mix 1 tablespoon peroxide with 1/2 cup water and spray your salad with it. It’ll bring the greens right back to life!
9. Healthy gardening
Give your seeds a healthy head-start when gardening! By soaking them in hydrogen peroxide for 20 minutes, it will soften the outer coating and start the germination process.
10. Brighten floors
Hydrogen peroxide is a great trick for getting your floors bright and shiny. Just mix 1/2 cup in a gallon of hot water and get to work. Your floors will be sparkling like new.
11. Bring back musty towels
If you’ve got some old towels that regular detergents aren’t taking the smell from, use some hydrogen peroxide to bring them back to life. Mix 1/2 cup vinegar, 1/2 peroxide, let it soak for 15 minutes before washing as you normally would.
Give that litter box a good clean
Litter boxes can be near impossible to clean, that smell tends to stick around, but there’s a fix. After you dump out the nasty stuff, clean good with soap and water then spray a good amount of peroxide on it, and it’ll be good as new!
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