Six Household Items to Help Clean Utensils

Household Items to Help Clean Utensils

For most home owners, cleaning tarnished silver is a task that they prefer to think about when they are preparing for major events or when the holidays are around the corner. If time is a luxury that you cannot afford, or you just want to bother yourself with the task, then the easiest way out is hiring a house cleaning service that will take care of everything for you. They will even go further than just cleaning your silver objects upon your request. However, if you decide to polish the silver yourself, there are several special equipment that you can get especially for this purpose. Or better still, you could just open up your pantry and voila! To help you with the task, the following are the six household items that you could use to get your silver to sparkle one more time.

1. Baking soda

This is one of the many household items that has lots of uses. One of which includes cleaning silver. All you have to do is form a thick paste using the baking soda that you have available with some water. Using a clean but damp sponge, rub the baking soda all over the tarnished silver and then later on rinse off the baking soda paste with some warm water and the polish the silver using a damp cloth.
2. Toothpaste

Not only can toothpaste make teeth sparkle, it can also make silver shine too. And the best part is that it does not matter the type of toothpaste that you have as they essentially have the ingredients that you need to get your silver to shine again. All you have to do is apply some toothpaste to the silver using your finger, rive it some few minutes and then rub off with a clean cloth and rinse.

3. Salt and Citrus Juice

The lime juice or lemon and the salt that you have I your cabinet are not just basic ingredients for an awesome margarita. You can also make a paste to polish the silver by mixing two table spoons of common salt with a table spoon of lime juice or even lime. Polish the silver using the paste and then rub the silver with a clean dry cloth.

4. Laundry detergent

Laundry detergent used to fight off stains on cloths can also be used to get rid of tarnish on silver. All you have to do is dissolve some detergent in warm water and then soak the tarnished silver for about thirty minutes and then dry the silverware with a cloth.

5. Cream of tartar

This is another very good item that you can use to make a silver polishing paste out of. The complete and full name of the item is Potassium hydrogen tart rate. It is an acidic salt that work wonders when it comes to cleaning tarnished silver.

6. Ketchup

Each and every person has this in their refrigerator. The most amazing and astonishing thing is  that apart from adding flavor to food, it can be used to clean tarnished silverware. The acidity in the tomatoes is sufficient to clean the silver.

These are just some of the items that you have in your house that you can use to clean your silver. You can therefore save yourself the trouble and money you could have spent on hiring a house cleaning company.

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