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fantabulisticity · 3 days ago

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Okay. Y'all. STOP MIXING BAKING SODA AND VINEGAR TO CLEAN STUFF. IT DOESN'T WORK. I PROMISE THAT BOTH OF THOSE OPTIONS WORK BETTER ON THEIR OWN THAN TOGETHER. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LOOK UP WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MIX THEM. IT DOESN'T WORK.

Baking soda, Sodium bicarbonate, is a base. Vinegar, acetic acid, is an acid. When you mix a base and an acid, it produces water, a salt (at least a precipitate if not always a salt, but we made a lot of salts in school), and a gas.

When you mix baking soda and vinegar, you are neutralizing BOTH CHEMICALS into SALTWATER AND AIR. I PROMISE that cleaning with baking soda OR vinegar SEPARATELY will clean SO MUCH BETTER than saltwater and air.

I'm not even a chemistry person. This isn't even my area. Please, please, please don't mix chemicals that some asshole on the internet told you to mix. At worst, it can kill you or send you to the hospital, or at best it can make both chemicals turn into something basically useless for most cleaning purposes. Mixing two cleaning chemicals together does NOT make a better cleaning chemical in most cases.

#this is the SECOND TIME in like 8 years that i've had to tell this specific friend that mixing baking soda and vinegar doesn't work.#the first time she was trying to wash coconut oil out of her hair. and the internet told her to mix baking soda and vinegar.#which makes SALT WATER. SALT WATER WILL NOT GET THE OIL OUT OF YOUR HAIR.#and this time it was for cooking grease. SALT WATER WILL NOT REMOVE COOKING GREASE EITHER.#salt water does not remove oils and greases. please. i am BEGGING you to stop mixing shit.#personal #psa #baking soda and vinegar #cleaning #cleaning tips #just reminds me of the mixing videos where people take every cleaning chemical known to man and put it in a sink or toilet and mix them...#...and my BARELY educated ass is over here like 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱#like! i can't stress enough! this is NOT my area of expertise! i don't know a lot about this stuff or how it works on a molecular level!#but i CAN tell you that if you keep mixing shit it will kill you! please please please stop mixing shit!

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