why homemade cleaning solutions that use baking soda AND vinegar work, don’t they just neutralize each other?
In: Chemistry
They don’t, at least not in the way you mean I’m pretty sure. Mixing those two things makes a lot of fizzy bubbles, which is something people associate with cleaning products, but “bubblee” and “cleans” are not inextricably linked.
It probably works at least as well as water would, and water and scrubbing will get most things clean. So if you mix vinegar and baking soda and then try to clean something with it there’s a decent chance it will still come clean, but not because that mixture is neccesarily an especially effective cleaning solution.
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