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

Everybody who’s saying that they neutralize each other are correct. But they say “there is no cleaning power” and that is incorrect for the simple fact that baking soda is a mild abrasive. Which is why you do get some results but nothing spectacular, but just enough to convince people that it’s effective.