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10 Tips for Using Apple Cider Vinegar
By Yumi Sakugawa, Intent.com
Apple cider vinegar is my favorite new DIY household product. Just as baking soda has a huge range of uses from personal self-care to household cleaning, apple cider vinegar can do pretty much anything–for your skin, your hair, your house, and even your pets.
I learned about apple cider vinegar when I was researching ways to get rid of the fleas that had unfortunately begun cropping up in my apartment from my roommates’ two cats. Apple cider vinegar, apparently, when rubbed on the pet and added to the pet’s water, can greatly help repel the fleas from the animal.
Why should we all start using more apple cider vinegar? First of all, apple cider vinegar is a completely natural product: apple juice is fermented to hard apple cider, which is fermented a second time to apple cider vinegar. In integrating this natural product into our homes, we instantly decrease the consumption of unnatural chemicals in our daily lives.
Here are many other benefits of apple cider vinegar that can be applied to your lifestyle. Read the list below.
BEAUTY:
Hair: It is widely known that apple cider vinegar can be used as a rinse for your hair after shampooing to add healthy body and shine. Recycle an old shampoo bottle and fill it with 1/2 a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and a cup of cold water. Pour through your hair after shampooing several times a week.
Face: Did you know that apple cider vinegar can help regulate the pH of your skin? Dilute apple cider vinegar with two parts water, and spread the concoction over your face with a cotton ball as a toner. You can do this at night after washing, and in the morning before you apply your moisturizer. You can also dab apple cider vinegar directly onto age spots and leave them on overnight to lighten their color.
Hands and Feet: Are your hands and feet feeling tired and swollen after a long day? Treat yourself to a personal spa massage by rubbing apple cider vinegar onto them.
Sunburn: Suffering from a bad sunburn? Add a cup of apple cider vinegar to your bath and soak for 10 minutes.
Teeth: Did you know that apple cider vinegar can help remove stains from teeth? Rub teeth directly with apple cider vinegar and rinse out.
Aftershave: Fill a bottle with equal parts apple cider vinegar and water and shake to blend.
HEALTH:
Weight-Loss: For daily weight and pH balance maintenance, add 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar to 16 oz of water. Sip this concoction throughout the day.
Detox: Add 2 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar to a 1 or 2 liter filtered water bottle. Drink this throughout the day to cleanse your body and kidneys all day long.
HOME AND PETS
Cleaning: Mix 1/2 cup of apple cider vinegar with 1 cup water. You can use this concoction to clean microwaves, bathroom tiles, kitchen surfaces, windows, glasses and mirrors. This mixture also works as a disinfectant.
Flea Reduction: Rub apple cider vinegar onto your pet’s skin. Add a little bit of apple cider vinegar to their water. Spray apple cider vinegar, diluted 50 percent with water, onto your pets and onto your furniture to repel the presence of fleas.
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add your comment »I did not know that Apple Cider Vinegar is very usefull.
Thank you Megan.
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ACV has so many uses it boggles the mind...truly everyone should try it..I use Braggs ACV its amazing all the things you can do with it....
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Warning about using vinegar as a fabric softener:
we just got our new washing machine (the old one broke the other week) and read, to our surprise, that using vinegar regularly as a fabric softener can damage the rubber parts of the machine. The information also said that, when using a machine 'properly' no fabric softener is needed at all ...
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Kim,
I just air the place well while cleaning and afterwards for about 20 minutes. Most of the smell is gone that way and it disappears completely over the course of a few hours.
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I feel like my mother used apple cider vinegar at one point when I was growing up. I also drank it a lot after a lot of physical activity when I was in high school. I guess it's time to reintroduce it into my life!
sdhc
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is there any way to disguise the smell without essential oils? i tried using ACV to clean, but it smells awful!
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My father gave me the book 'Vinegar 1001 Practical Uses' and I'm happy to see some of them being posted here. Here are a couple more to consider:
- remove sweat or deodorant marks from clothes by soaking them in vinegar before washing
- use instead of fabric softener (any kind of cider or white vinegar)
- put 1 tbsp vinegar with 1/2 cup water in your kettle and boil to remove limescale and stains
- 50 g baking soda and 1/4 liter vinegar poured down drains cleans them
- mix 3 parts vinegar to 1 part water and wipe windscreens with in winter to minimize icing overnight.
-clean waste disposal units by running a tray of ice cubes plus 6 tbs vinegar through it once a week
- remove carpet stains by spraying 1 part white vinegar to 7 parts water on stain, soak a few minutes and blot out - works very well for juice and wine stains.
- dip toothbrush in white vinegar once a week and brush your teeth with it - stops bad breath and whitens teeth. Rinse mouth with plain water afterwards!
- dip skeins of thread in white vinegar and let dry before doing needle work - sets the dye, brightens it and prevents bleeding when washing.
If you can get your hands on the book, buy it. (ISBN 978-1-86147-167-3, by Maragret Briggs, Abbeydale Press)
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great article please keep us post with does great ideas!
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thank you for the great suggestion, lesley.
it most definitely IS a much safer remedy.
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An old Vermont remedy for anxiety is a tablespoon of ACV diluted in a cup or so of warm water. It really does work. I've used it in times of family crisis to calm myself instead of pharmaceutical sedatives - much safer.
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