Baking Soda Or Vinegar – The War Of The Homemade Cleaners

Home cleaning requires being productive, but also being practical. Using the home-made cleaning tag team of baking soda and vinegar does the job almost 100 percent of the time, and it costs you almost nothing – and especially nothing when compared to all the expensive cleaning products offered on the market today. There is one question, though, that still plagues the minds of people who use them – which is better: baking soda or vinegar? This is not a simple question to answer, if there is an answer at all, so let us simply look at the facts and let everybody arrive at his or her own conclusion.

Dirt and Stains

Starting with the obvious reasons to use either of them, you can immediately give a point to baking soda. It shines above the vinegar's capabilities – both of them clean well, but the baking soda is an all-round home detergent and works on any type of stain, while vinegar has very specific uses. Soda can get that tomato or ketchup stain off your table cloth, but vinegar works on rust. But, overall, baking soda's versatility makes it the better tool against stains.

Disinfecting

Vinegar is clearly the winner here. Its acidic properties eat through every kind of bacteria and practically sterilize everything it cleans. Baking soda cleans, but it definitely does not disinfect. Vinegar can keep mould away from your home, while baking soda has no effect over it.

Environment

It's a draw. Both of them are home-made cleaners and all home-made cleaners are green. Vinegar is an all-natural product, created by environmental produce like apples, grapes, or sugarcanes. Baking soda goes through more work and looks bad, but it is non-toxic and non-abrasive. You can use it everywhere and it will not emit any dangerous chemicals.

Health

Again, it's a draw, with a slight nod to vinegar. Both of them are absolutely non-toxic and will not harm the health. In fact, they can be used for health purposes as vinegar can sooth insect bites and is known to cure hiccups. While baking soda cannot be applied to the body in any way, you can use it to clean your fruits and vegetables for better quality of food.

Smells

When applied to any source of smell, baking soda will kill any odour coming out of it. You can use it to stop the pungent smells from your trash bin or toilet bin, and it will not draw out another for a while. The soda itself is odourless, so it will not replace the source with itself. The latter is something vinegar cannot provide – it will kill any odour, but after that the cleaned spot will have the burning stench of vinegar. Luckily, vinegar's smell is not everlasting and it will go away in a while.

There, you have the facts, and you can draw your own conclusions for curiosity's sake. Any choice you make, of course, will not make one product unusable – however different, the two products complement each other and make for the best cleaners found in your kitchen. Read more at: endoftenancycleaning.org.uk.