Hydrogen peroxide is a chemical that appears as a colorless liquid. It is used in a wide range of cosmetics and personal care products, which includes hair dyes, bleaches, conditioners, shampoos, and rinses.
Hydrogen peroxide has other consumer and industrial uses as well including water treatment. There are so many other uses for hydrogen peroxide around the home. It is the perfect addition to your home cleaning regimen.
· Clean your toothbrush: If you’ve ever looked at your toothbrush, then this is what you need to do. Fill a cup halfway with hydrogen peroxide. Take your toothbrush and just dunk it in there and leave it for about 30 minutes. The hydrogen peroxide will make it look and smell better, and get rid of any bacteria.
· Grout cleaner: There’s a quick solution to clean this up. All you need to do is mix two parts baking soda to one part hydrogen peroxide, get out of cleaning toothbrush, give it a good stir, and apply that paste to the affected grout line. Leave it for a few minutes, and then give it a good scrub with that cleaning toothbrush. Finally, rinse it well because the baking soda is going to leave a fine grit behind.
· Kitchen disinfectant: If you’re looking for a quick and easy disinfectant in your kitchen, look no further than the friendly brown bottle of hydrogen peroxide. You want to make sure that you test it in a hidden area on any kitchen surface before you actually use it in a wider spread application just to make sure you don’t get any weird discoloration. Hydrogen peroxide does technically have the ability to bleach things.
So, if you want to use it in the kitchen to disinfect an area take some hydrogen peroxide and spray it onto the surface and leave it for about 10 minutes. That will give the hydrogen peroxide the time to do its thing. Then, you want to wipe the surface clean, give it a good final rinse, and the surface will be clean and bacteria free.
· Laundry aid: Hydrogen peroxide is incredible in the laundry room. The same way you would use bleach, you can use hydrogen peroxide. It whitens whites. Here’s all you have to do. Take a cup of hydrogen peroxide, add it to the bleach compartment in your machine or just add it to your wash as you normally would with bleach. Hydrogen peroxide has this amazing ability especially with protein stains to break the bond between dirt and fabrics. Your stain will loosen up, and it’ll wash out easily.
· Produce rinse: I’m not into ingesting pesticides. A great way to deal with that is to make a solution of one quart of water, and to that add 1 cup of hydrogen peroxide. Dump in the produce that you want to wash, leave it there for a few minutes, give it a good rinse, pat and dry, . Clean produce with no bacteria and no pesticides.
· Stain remover: As a stain remover, it’s a great alternative to bleach, but it’s not chlorine bleach. I like to use hydrogen peroxide in a solution of two parts hydrogen peroxide, and one part dish soap. Mix that all together, blot up your stain first, apply this solution to your stain, let it sit for about 5, 10 minutes and then launder it as usual. This solution really helps nab those stains, and you can also use it on carpet or upholstery stains.
· Toilet bowl cleaner: A lot of people use bleach to clean their toilet bowls, and this isn’t really a good solution. Bleach doesn’t clean anything. It disinfects, and it can help whiten stains, but it doesn’t clean. All you need to do is pour about a cup of hydrogen peroxide into the toilet bowl, leave it there for a couple of hours, then get your toilet brush, out and give it a really good scrubbing in the bowl. Give it a flush and you’re done. What that will do is help break down stains, and get rid of any lingering bacteria.
“You don’t want hydrogen peroxide in the blood itself. But if hydrogen peroxide is present outside the blood, there is the potential it could work as a drug.” (Mark Levine)[i]
[i] Sources used:
· “7 Great Ways to Use Hydrogen Peroxide!” by Melissa Maker
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