I have thought about that every time i see someone say this. This is so true. Baking soda is a base and vinegar is an acid and they absolutely cancel each other out. Im glad you made this video. Ive had this discussion with my wife many times. It just wastes both.
I've completely stopped buying scent beads, fabric softener, and dryer sheets. I still use laundry soap. It is so much cheaper, my clothes aren't damaging as quckly. All of mh sensitive family members have seen a change for the better in their skin. My towels are super absorbent and fluffy now. Like a good hotel towel. I use my wash stuff exactly like this, 2 wool balls in the dryer.
THANK YOU! MAJOR pet peeve of mine...either one has good cleaning abilities, but keep apart! Like mixing hot water with ice and expecting something great...
I add a little Dawn soap into my dirty clothes before washing as a stain lifter and gets the sweat stains out, vinegar for the rinse and baking soda in the dryer so my clothes repel cat hair.
@@susiex6669 dish soap will help to remove oils and large particles of food, but will not remove any stains left behind. You should use an oxygen bleach for that
@@SandyCheeks63564 believe it or not, there's no residue on the clothes, not a lot but a dusting in the middle of the load, it all comes off and leaves my clothes static free, repels pet hair and freshens up towels
If people paid attention in school perhaps they would know that baking soda and vinegar make salt and water. So you may aswell put a spoon full of salt in the washing. When you separate them the reaction is different because the soda is already washed away
The answer to your cleaning needs is mixing baking soda with hydrogen peroxide. They dont neutralize each other like soda and vinegar. But DO NOT leave them a long time mixed in a closed container like a spray bottle or it could explode. Just spray peroxide on the baking soda and scrub whatever you need to clean. I use them in laundry together also and they work well.
I use it with the regular clothes soap to clean because that foam (which is basically the gas trapped in the reaction) is what helps clean more effectively, THEN rinse it all. And after I've done all that, I put it in the washing machine. Of course I only do this for underwear (not bras) and very hard to clean stains.
And some people get rashes with baking soda! So do a trial on one towel first before using it on all towels. It took weeks and multiple (5×) washings to remove the residual of baking soda to stop the welts and itching on my daughter! It was the baking soda, which can be harsh on sensitive skin.
Yeah baking soda works very well. Baking soda MIXED with vinegar is useless. The chemical reaction leaves you with a slightly salty water. It's a basic component being mixed with an acidic component which becomes neutral. Baking soda plus hydrogen peroxide is what you should be doing.
If you have bed bugs you should try a very thin layer of diatomaceous earth throughout the house. Unfortunately baking soda alone will not get rid of them completely.
Good stuff 2 know! I wish I had watched your video yesterday when I mixed baking soda and vinegar to wash my stinky ass front loader! I got the idea from a video on YT with over 2 million views!!! That’s the problem with getting your information from a general RU-vid video, lol!
Right, but putting the vinegar in the fabric softener compartment of your washing machine will make sure it is released at the right time in the wash cycle, he's not actually saying to use fabric softener in this video
That's why theres Arm and Hammer laundry detergent it's the best for laundry. Love it and now I've found it with added fabric softener. It's inexpensive and laundry is clean and smells fresh.
Makes sense to me. I always wonder what chemical concoction are we making when we use the two to clean the pesticides from produce. I really think we are creating another chemical agent when cleaning the produce.
Unfortunately a lot of laundry machines in apartments don't have that option dispenser, everything's got to get thrown into the load together 😅 maybe baking soda on the bottom and vinegar on the top 🤷
? Literally where is the group of idiots? The baking soda is detergent. The vinegar is softener. Who skipped this? Or are idiots just tossing softener in WITH their soap - Because they are products of American education?
You had me... I thought I did something wrong by using them separately. I do that for over ten years now and my clothes are quite nice and soft. I also use shaved soap bars from the hamam. It always smells amazing
For top load washers: Add 4 cups of 5% distilled white vinegar solution into the hottest temperature and highest water/load setting. Let sit for about an hour with lid open and water at the highest level. Then drain all water. After that add one cup of baking soda in and restart by filling up the washer again with hot water at the highest water setting. Let sit for a few minutes then drain completely. Adding baking soda adds another layer of cleaning, eliminates any residual acidity in your washing machine plus reacts a bit with any leftover vinegar to form an exothermic reaction with CO2 gas as a by product. This can be helpful as the CO2 can agitate any gunk still stuck off. It might be efficacious though to add the 1 cup of baking soda to the washing machine water after you let the 4 cups of vinegar seep in for that hour. I say this because this will create the most bubbles (CO2 gas) to agitate any gun in the machine. Drawback is since the solution in the full washing machine is now neutralized, all the pipes downstream are not going to get the benefit of a slightly acidic washout. However, the biggest concern the vast majority of time is the gunked up components in the washing machine itself not the downstream drain hoses/pipes. So stick with the instructions in the first paragraph unless you want to experiment around. Source: Degreed Chemist and full time handyman/construction worker.
This is exactly how I clean my baby clothes so there’s no residue that could irritate skin. It also works wonders for smells or laundry that needs to be ran a second time because it didn’t get dried fast enough.
the reaction itself is beneficial though. Just because they cancel each other out doesn't mean it's not useful. The CO2 released dislodges dirt similar to when you deglaze a hot pan wit water.
My fabric softener slot releases fluid the moment I close the detergent door. Normally, a washer would fill the slot in with more water to “turn on” the softener slot (it works like an Aristotle’s greedy wine cup; add too much liquid, and a hidden channel will siphon everything out), but mine just releases no matter what. Idk how to fix this.
Same with hair!!! They both can work on hair but for the love of all that is good in this world please stop mixing them. The acidity in vinegar neutralizes the alkalinity of the soap, along with other things. Only mix them for fried chicken and cheese sauce please.
Hmm never knew and I am "Hack Queen" from the baby boomerera (born in '62) who as a teenager in the 70's read for fun Hints to Heloise books and thanks for the enlightenment.
not quite... Mixing both makes sodium acetate, which is a cleaning additive as well, but not sure about it's efficacy compared to using baking soda and vinegar in separate sessions in the clean cycle, I am not a professional cleaner. Baking Powder is pretty good at bleaching stuff and that's a mixture of baking soda + solid acid.
It does. Not with laundry. The chemical reaction IS the scrubbing bubbles and works GREAT on hard surfaces or toilet. Why anyone would just do this on a pile of clothes is confusing. The Baking Soda is detergent. The vinegar is fabric softener. ---
most sodium bicarb you can buy is technically a mix of the two. Producing just bicarb is a lot more expensive and there is not much difference in the usecase so it's no biggie for most. Pure chemicals can be surprisingly expensive (especially for analysis) and washing soda is more expensive than baking soda by a few factors pretty much for that reason.
Thank you! I keep seeing people washing Their fruits and vegetables with baking soda And vinegar, and I just want to facepalm at The pointlessness of it.
@@amphiibiia lol nope. It literally does the opposite. I don’t know how this fact got started but please don’t do this until right before you’re going to eat them. It will destroy the natural bacteria on them and they WILL get overrun with bad bacteria that will ruin them.
I want to use vinegar in the washing machine but I don’t because I've read in two different sources that vinegar breaks down the rubber seals in washing machines and dishwashers. Something to consider.
You're only supposed to mix them if you want to get rid of bad odors on the clothes before washing them in the machine. Like baby clothes for instance (poop smell, dried out milk, vomit) etc...
Has anyone ever used or know if it's okay to use cleaning vinegar in with your laundry? Not just regular vinegar but CLEANING VINEGAR ? I know it's more acidic but I figured if we use less it would be ok..... I just want to know if anybody knows anything about it ?
