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
They *do* neutralize each other, and those “hacks” *are* mostly nonsense.
At *best* they’re a mild abrasive, and that’s all. But people see all that fizzing and think “look, the bubbles are scrubbing it by themselves!” because even basic chemistry is hard for most folks.
It’s nonsense.
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