Cleaning Facts

By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors.

To help clean produce, fill a bowl with water, add 1 cup of white vinegar, and soak fruit and vegetables for 10 minutes. Studies show this vinegar solution removes more pesticide residue and bacteria than water alone, though it won't completely strip commercial wax coatings.

Workers at a Scottish nuclear facility were decommissioning a plutonium plant, but the expensive industrial cleaners were not working. Then one worker remembered a Cillit Bang TV ad for a £1.99 bathroom cleaner. They tried it. It worked so well that other UK nuclear sites called to ask about it.