Natural Stain Removers Waterloo IA

Coffee and tea stains

As a perfectionist, I get particularly irked when my shiny white coffee mugs come out of the dishwasher sporting the same dingy brown rings that I put them in with. I’m sure you clean freaks out there can relate. Luckily, several natural ingredients can easily erase stubborn coffee and tea stains from dishware. No bleach needed. Why would you ever want to put those toxic chemicals near the utensils you use to ingest food anyway? Try one of these green cleaning remedies instead:

• Squeeze the juice of half a lemon onto the stained area. Use a damp cloth to scrub at the stain. It may take a bit of elbow grease, but the acid in the lemon juice will work through those annoying brown blemishes.
• Soak persistent stains overnight in a solution of hot water and vinegar or hot water and baking soda.
• Try this delightfully sweet scrub. Place about 1 tablespoon of sugar into a stained mug. Use a cloth or sponge dampened with hot water to work the coarse sweet stuff into the stain. The abrasive action of the sugar will remove set-in stains. (Yes, this actually works!) You could also try this method using salt.
• For a little less labor, simply add some vinegar to the dishwasher cycle to remove coffee and tea stains from dishes.

Food stains 

Tomatoes , beets and other deep-colored food items can leave dishes with ugly orange blotches. Not exactly the dinnerware you want to showcase at your next get-togeth...