CLEANING TIPS

• For shine wash clothes with boiled potato water.
• Starch woollen clothes with rice water.
  
• To remove wrinkles, soak silk clothes in glycerine added water.
  
• To maintain whiteness, soak white silk clothes in turpentine added water.
  
• Woollen & colourful clothes should be washed with aritha water.
  
• To avoid insects in woollen clothes keep neem leaves or kalijeeri & cloves tied in cloth.
  
• For softness of woollen clothes wash them in glycerine water.
  
• To fasten colour of clothes, soak them in salty water for 1hr. or wash with vinegar.
  
• Iron jari sari after keeping news paper on it, to avoid from getting black.
  
• Iron painted clothes, embroidery on opposite side.
  
• Avoid ironing buttons & elastic part of garment.
  
• To increase brightness of fade embroidery, rub alum powder on it.
  
• Never hang sweater in sunlight.
  
• To avoid insects, never keep silky cloth with warm cloth.
  
• Soak sweater in salty water before washing it, to avoid sticking of woollen.
  
• Washing white clothes with alum water prevents it from getting yellowish.
  
• Close first button of shirt & fold collar like at a time of wearing, & then wash in washing machine, or rub shampoo for proper wash of collar.
  
• Remove rust marks on cloth with sour curd & lemon juice & than scrub in hot water or soak in excess water of cooked rice.
  
• Always wrap Jari cloth in thin cotton cloth.
• Drop of glycerin in water at the time of washing thoroughly washes blanket.

• To remove stains from table clean with acetic acid & water.
• Clean floor, fan with kerosene water.
• To clean kitchen flooring put 2 tsp soda-bi-carb on wet sponge, rub on floors, then wash off after few min.
• Clean plastic bottles / shopping bags by keeping them in bleach water for 4-5 min.
• To clean choked up sink add table salt & then pour hot water on it.
• Idli stand can be cleaned with toothbrush.
• Sticky dirt & blocking of pipes can be removed by pouring hot salty water in it.
• To prevent scratches on vessel, glasses, wash basin etc. wash it with old socks.
• To remove stuck wax from carpet, keep paper on it & iron it slowly.
• After washing cloth with liquid blue, use that water or toothpowder mixed water for cleaning the floor.
• Soak the empty detergent bag in water & use it to clean washbasin.
• Dissolve small pieces of soap in hot water & use that liquid to wash hands
• To remove stickiness wash hands with soap & icing sugar
• Nail polish remover removes name from gift article.
• Clean flask with hot water for its long life.
• Clean leather article with cotton dipped in glycerin for its softness & long life.
• Washing car with hot water & some paraffin gives protective shine.

• Smoke of neem leaves or used tea or pieces of sugarcane dipped in mustard oil with ajwain keeps mosquitoes, flies away.
• Applying clove oil on body keeps mosquitoes away.
• To keep cockroaches away keep tablets of boric acid & maida or limestone.
• Alum powder or mint keeps rats away.
• Turmeric, mint stem, mixture of neem oil in ½ cup of water or alum water keeps ants away.
• Sprinkle kerosene mixed with soap on the place where mosquitoes accumulate.
• Sprinkling sindhalun powder keeps red ants away.
• Keeping cloves tied in cloth, keeps ants away.
• While filling cotton in mattresses, pillows add camphor in it to get cooling effect & keep pests away.
• Dried lemon rinds or neem leaves in wooden cupboard keeps bugs away.
• Take salt in cloth & clean the dining table with it, to avoid bees.

• For everlasting shine keep ornaments in cotton or clean with e-de-cologne.
• Clean silver utensils with soda sprinkled on cloth or ashes of burnt paper or aritha.
• Alum or camphor tablets in silver articles prevent it from getting black.
• Clean gold & silver utensils with toothpaste.
• To maintain shine clean pearl ornaments with olive oil.
• For shine, clean diamond with talcum powder or chock.
• Gold ornaments shine, when boiled in 2 arithas & turmeric powder or washed with onion water.
• To remove knot in gold chain apply little talcum powder on it.
• To maintain shine keep chalk pieces with artificial jewellery.
• Boil silver jewellery in water containing tamarind pulp for shine.

• Clean mirror with wet newspaper or kerosene.
• Before pouring hot liquid in glass keep steel sp. in, to avoid breaking.
• Use kachpaper(rough paper)to open tighted cap of bottles & jars.
• Wash bottles with mustard water to remove smell.
• Keep glass bangles in hot water & then cool it, to last longer.
• Glass windows can be cleaned with used & dried tea powder.
• To remove stickiness of child's milk bottle, wash with cold water & few uncooked rice.
• Wash bottle with boiled vegetable water, to remove dirt & smell.
• Salt & ice removes dirt stuck in corner of china clay vessel.
• Cleaning of crockery item with warm water increase its brightness.

• Applying salt removes bloodstains.w
• To remove betel leaf (pan) stains first rub with limestone then with bleaching powder & then with lemon or curd.
• Use toothpaste to remove curry stain. wTo remove ball pen ink stains apply nail polish remover or sprinkle talcum powder.
• Soak clothes in ammonia (navsaar) water or wash with water containing 2-3 tablets of aspirin or dispirin to remove perspiration stains.
• To remove turmeric stains wash with soap & ammonia & then dry it.
• Hair dye stains on body can be removed with e-de-cologne or scrub onion juice.
• Hair dye stain over cloth can be removed with glycerin after soaking that part in water for some time.
• Drop of clove oil in toothpaste removes teeth stain. wSalty water removes sticky marks from the cloth.
• Tea marks can be easily removed with talcum powder or glycerin. wUse kerosene to remove grease marks, yellowish ness of white cloth.
• To remove catechu marks, scrub it with jaggery water & than wash it.
• Ghee & oil marks on cloth can be removed by ironing it after keeping bloating paper & thin cloth on it.
• Apply eucalyptus over lipstick marks before washing. wIce removes chewing gum marks.
• Kerosene removes coal tar marks & paint marks from flooring.
• Petrol removes marks from photographs. wRemove stains on fridge with warm water & salt or cold water with eating soda.