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The Science of Cleaning Notes The author suggests that using well formulated, chemist designed cleaning products are the best way to go over some eco-friendly counterparts. Warm Citric Acid (Pour hot water over some citric acid near the drain) is the best way to clear drains. My personal experience and takeaway from reading this book is that it's okay to use synthetic, chemist designed products. Especially when they are not only cheaper but more effective than "natural" or "eco friendly" counterparts. Citric acid is best for laundry instead of vinegar. My personal recipe for this is 1000 grams of water to 200 grams of citric acid in a glass bottle. I’ve tried using essential oils for scent but I have stained fabric softener compartments doing this in the past. Yellow highlight | Location: 3,052 Although it’s rare, citric acid is actually found in a few commercial fabric softener formulations. Unlike vinegar, it doesn’t smell and doesn’t damage your washing machine’s seals, and it’s excellent at trapping the residual calcium ions released by limescale removers during the wash cycle. You can add a 15-percent citric acid solution to the fabric softener tray or during the rinse cycle. Yellow highlight | Location: 3,127 Many studies have shown that switching from washing the dishes by hand to using a dishwasher results in lower energy and water consumption, CO2 emissions, and costs. Yellow highlight | Location: 3,286 Currently, dishwasher detergents’ weak point is their relatively poor performance when they’re up against cooked, dried, or burnt food residue on pots and pans. Chemists still have some work to do, so using elbow grease before loading these dishes into the dishwasher is the best alternative for now. Yellow highlight | Location: 3,775 for example, surfaces that touch raw food (especially animal products), kitchen sponges, utensils, and anything that we frequently interact with using our bare hands. Yellow highlight | Location: 3,923 Alcohols are better at disinfecting when they’re diluted with a little water, with 70 percent being the most effective dilution. (Isopropyl is the type of alcohol most commonly used Yellow highlight | Location: 3,941 If you’ve poured an alcohol-based disinfectant solution into a spray bottle, don’t be stingy when applying it: You need to get the surface wet, since there’s no disinfecting action without contact. ”The best way to disinfect a sponge is to get it soaking wet then cook in a microwave safe bowl for 2 mins in the microwave.” Yellow highlight | Location: 4,071 the microwave at full power for one minute. After that, the sponges were examined for any residual contamination with fungi or bacteria. And the winner was . . . the microwave, which turned out to be even more effective against bacteria than bleach, while the second best treatment was the dishwasher. Yellow highlight | Location: 4,271 - “Baking soda, vinegar, lemon juice, and salt are good to start with but sometimes we need more.” If these four ingredients were really all we needed, the chemists who focus their life’s work on developing cleaning products would probably have dedicated themselves to something else. Yellow highlight | Location: 4,341 Adding a teaspoon of baking soda to the water when boiling legumes and vegetables makes them cook and soften more quickly.