When cleaning, home cleaning often uses different cleaning agents, such as baking soda, bleach and citric acid, etc., cleaning agents will be used in the kitchen, home floor or items and bathrooms, etc., but the pH of different cleaners is not the same, and the suitable places are not the same. What are the other common acid, alkaline, and neutral cleaners? How to use the cleaner correctly? When cleaning at home, pay attention to the operation of the detergent, and do not mix it up:
How to use commonly used cleaning agents, baking soda, bleach, etc. correctly?
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Many people will ask me, which of the various cleaning products on the market is more useful? I think there seems to be no standard answer, and it's hard to provide a single answer. I hope that after you know the types of these cleaners, you can make your own choices for the needs of descaling.
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Common alkaline cleaners, in order of alkaline strength, from weak to strong, are:
Baking soda < soda< oxygen bleach < caustic soda
Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate/baking base)
It is a weak alkali that is close to neutral and can be used as a raw material for food processing.
In general, as long as the most alkaline baking soda is used, coupled with a long period of soaking, the oil net can be cleaned. However, if it is the ultra-thick grease of the barbecue restaurant, it is necessary to rely on the alkaline sodium hydroxide to quickly and effectively clean the stainless steel grilling net, baking pan, and baking clip.
Soda (carbonate/soda ash)
It is more alkaline than baking soda and is a raw material for soap making.
Oxygen-based bleach (sodium percarbonate/solid hydrogen peroxide)
The alkaline strength is higher than that of soda, which is the main ingredient for stain removal.
Steep the cup in sodium percarbonate solution to easily remove tea scale. Similarly, the discolored cutting board is because there is a knife mark formation, so the protein residue is stuck in the gap, at this time can not be brushed at high temperature, so as not to denature the protein can not be washed off, the cutting board can be soaked in sodium percarbonate solution, both clean and bleaching, but also safe and non-toxic.
Sodium percarbonate, as long as it is dissolved in water, it reacts into a carbonated alkaline aqueous solution and reactive oxygen species, so in addition to stainless steel, magnets, glass, not afraid of oxidation discoloration, other materials need to be careful, to avoid soaking for too long and bleaching, losing luster or uneven color. However, I have tried, a short period of ten minutes and then clean, in fact, will not cause color difference, but also a labor-saving washing method.
Caustic soda (sodium hydroxide/tablet alkali)
Strong alkali, raw material for handmade soap manufacturing.
As long as the oil is added with alkali, it will heat up and saponify and become easily soluble in water. From this principle, we know that the stronger the alkalinity, the faster the saponification reaction will be, so the alkali is used in the range hood, and the old oil will be easily removed.
For safety and ease of use, these alkaline raw materials are diluted with water when used. In particular, sodium hydroxide is mostly used directly to buy aqueous solutions, and rarely buy granular solids.
Granular sodium hydroxide, use with special care, if you want to add water to dissolve, be sure to wear gloves to operate.
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Acidic cleaner, mainly used to remove alkaline scale. Hydrochloric acid solutions (HCL) used to be commonly used, but later it was worried that mixing with chlorine-containing cleaners (bleach, mold removers) would produce toxic chlorine gas, so most households should now rarely buy hydrochloric acid cleaning.
In fact, if you look closely at the ingredient labels of many bathroom cleaners, you may still find traces of hydrochloric acid, but you don't need to worry too much, because even if household products are accidentally mixed, the toxic gas of toxic chlorine gas will not be too strong. Just remember that acids and chlorine products must not be mixed.
Hydrochloric acid + bleach → toxic chlorine gas
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Food grade citric acid, which can be used to wash the scale of coffee machines, the inside of water dispensers, and the sinks of water pipes. However, the point is that citric acid needs to be added to the water and boiled to effectively dissolve the scale.
If you want to rely on citric acid solution at room temperature, less than 50 degrees C, to prevent the formation of scale, the effect can be imagined to be limited. If you want to prevent scale, I think the best scale cleaner I have used so far is gelatinous vegetable acid, which can work for a long time at room temperature, and is non-toxic and odorless.
Add citric acid to hot water to dissolve and remove scale, which makes the faucet brighter.
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Salad dressing is the cheapest and most useful cleaner. When mopping the floor, add a drop of salad in a bucket of water, soak the mop cloth and then try to wring it out and mop the floor to keep the floor shiny. Stone flooring is also suitable, has a cleaning effect, and does not worry about the cleaning agent to destroy the brightness of the stone surface.
Add a drop of salad to a bucket of water to mop the floor, clean it while keeping the floor shiny.
The little ding-dong of the housekeeper
I personally do not recommend using a floor cleaner because all the products on the market are too fragrant. A bucket of water added to a drop of salad can be used to mop the stone floor, if you are afraid of affecting the health of your pet, change the drop of bio-enzymes or pure natural orange oil.