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
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It’s somewhat effective at cleaning mildly clogged drains, if one is poured after the other, because the foaming can displace dirt/grime. You can also use vinegar to clean up alkaline battery leakage followed by baking soda to neutralize the residual vinegar
But yeah, any solutions that involve mixing them beforehand are not effective for anything and may actually make things worse depending on the material it’s being used on. The product of baking soda and vinegar is essentially salt water which can accelerate corrosion, so using it on rusted metal for example is a big no-no
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