How do these baking soda/vinegar cleaning hacks work

Question

You often see videos of people using baking soda, vinegar and boiling water to clean stains in the kitchen or the bathroom. From my understanding these ingredients should simply neutralise each other. So how does it help cleaning? Or is it simply a social media myth

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

They don’t. People are daft. Urban myth.
The only thing that works about it is that baking soda is a mild abrasive so can be used for scrubbing. I
But if you want a mild abrasive, just use calciumcarbonate, cheaper than baking soda.