5 Practical Life Skills of Vinegar

Washing your hair with vinegar makes it smoother

Washing your hair with vinegar is a folk remedy passed down by the elders in the family. Washing your hair with vinegar frequently can make your hair soft and shiny, reduce split ends, inhibit the growth of dandruff, and even have a certain effect in treating dandruff.

How to use: After shampooing your hair each time, rinse your hair with warm vinegar in a ratio of about 10:1. After your hair is fully moisturized, rinse it with clean water. If you want to treat dandruff, you need to soak the roots of your hair with vinegar water in a water-vinegar ratio of about 1:1, rub it gently, and wash it with clean water after 10 minutes.

Wash your face with white vinegar to remove acne and whiten

White vinegar water diluted with clean water can be used to wash your face. White vinegar itself has the effects of antibacterial, whitening, and softening cuticles. Washing your face with white vinegar every day can make your facial skin white and tender, and it can also inhibit the growth of acne.

Directions: Add one capful of white vinegar to warm water and mix well. After cleansing, wash your face with white vinegar water, pat gently, and finally wash it with cold water to shrink the pores.

Descaling with white vinegar

The water quality in the north is relatively hard. Kettles and coffee machines will form a layer of scale after being used for a while. Shower heads will also accumulate scale after being used for a long time, blocking the water outlet. At this time, you can use the acidity of white vinegar to remove scale.

How to use: Pour white vinegar directly into the kettle or coffee machine, or soak the shower head in a basin of water filled with white vinegar. After soaking overnight, the scale can be easily removed and then rinse with clean water.

Washing clothes with white vinegar can inhibit bacteria and remove odors, making clothes softer

Using white vinegar to wash clothes can not only remove the unpleasant sweat smell on clothes, but also make white clothes more transparent after washing. This is because white vinegar can remove alkaline sweat stains and neutralize detergent residue on clothes.

How to use: If you want to remove yellowed sweat stains and sweat odors from clothes, you can soak and rinse the dirty clothes in white vinegar water with a water-to-vinegar ratio of 20:1 for 10 minutes, and then wash them normally. If you want to remove residual detergent, soak the fabric in 100:1 diluted white vinegar water for 5 minutes during the second to last wash with clean water, then rinse with clean water.

Vinegar removes fishy and meaty odors

In addition to increasing the acidity of food, vinegar can also remove the odor of meat and make food more delicious. Adding some vinegar when cooking fish can remove the fishy smell; when washing meat, especially animal offal, vinegar can also remove those unpleasant smells!

How to use: When cooking fish, add a few drops of vinegar, the fish will not have a fishy smell; using vinegar to clean knives and cutting boards can also remove the fishy smell; when cleaning animal offal, first wash with clean water, then scrub with a mixture of vinegar and wine, and then rinse with clean water; in order to remove the mutton smell, before cooking, you can put the mutton in a pot of boiling water, pour in vinegar and soak for a while, the smell will be reduced.

Health benefits of vinegar

Vinegar, also known as bitter wine, is not only a commonly used cooking condiment, but also a commonly used Chinese medicine. In recent years, people have paid more and more attention to the medical and health care functions of vinegar. There are ten rules for longevity among the Japanese people, among which "less salt and more vinegar" is listed as the second one. Some people have summarized that vinegar has four major health benefits: one is to lower blood pressure and prevent arteriosclerosis; two is to kill bacteria; three is to prevent and eliminate fatigue; four is to moisturize the skin.

Rice vinegar contains more than 20 kinds of amino acids and 16 kinds of organic acids, which can promote sugar metabolism, eliminate fatigue, lower cholesterol and prevent arteriosclerosis. Experiments have shown that general bacteria will die if soaked in vinegar for 10 minutes. Soaking tableware in vinegar for 130 minutes can kill bacteria that cause food poisoning. A vinegar-water solution can wash away residual pesticides and radioactive dust on vegetables and fruits. The test results show that vinegar can protect the vitamins contained in vegetables from alkaline media and oxidative damage.