With all of the marketing that goes into selling cleaning products—the TV advertisements, colorful gimmicks and labels etc.—many households find themselves stocked with chemical-filled compounds and solutions in the cleaning closet. It wasn’t always this way, nor is it necessarily an improvement.
Little do we know that many of the home remedies passed down from grandma and grandpa (passed down from their grandparents, and so on) still work—often better than artificial fixes! Vinegar is one such remedy for cleaning, in particular for softening laundry. But it does even more than that.
