pet urine, whiskey, perfume, you can use white vinegar to get rid of most smells on most materials: carpets, furniture, clothes, without damaging the material.

vinegar is amazing at breaking down odors and then evaporating and not leaving a trace.

  • @[email protected]OPM
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    71 day ago

    White vinegar dries odorless; the acetic acid smell goes away after the vinegar dries.

    you’ll deodorize whatever other smells there are, then when the white vinegar dries, you’ll have no smell left.

    If you’re cleaning and then leaving while the windows, scrubbed lyme or the scrubs you are using are still not completely dry, you’ll smell the acetic acid of the white vinegar.

    If you go back after things are dry, you’ll notice there’s no lingering odor.

    • massive_bereavement
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      221 hours ago

      Yep, my only point is while it’s drying the smell is less agreeable than other perfumed cleaning products.

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        19 hours ago

        got it.

        I prefer waiting a few minutes for odorless non-toxic stuff.

        commercial detergents or sprays are usually oil-based and that smell lingers. but when the petrochemicals are flower or lemon-scented, people don’t mind so much.

        I’ll just drown it all in vinegar!

        • massive_bereavement
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          119 hours ago

          I do prefer vinegar and also wonder why people bother with other stuff for mirrors and glass surfaces.

          • @[email protected]OPM
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            119 hours ago

            I think it’s entirely the fault of marketing that people aren’t aware of many effective and simple alternatives.