Pucker up!

When life gives you lemons you could make lemonade. Or even better you could do some nontoxic cleaning around the house. Try these sweet uses for the sour fruit:

• Soak your toothbrush in lemon juice to kill germs.
• Homemade liquid plumber- pour baking soda into a clogged drain then lemon juice over it. The bubbly effervescence will safely do the trick.
• Straight lemon juice can be used as a general degreaser
• Equal parts lemon juice and water in a spray bottle make a great kitchen and bathroom cleaner.
• For vinegar based cleaning solutions add a small amount of lemon juice to help neutralize the vinegar smell.
• Clean and sanitize your toilet
• Replace bleach in your laundry by treating stains with lemon juice or add 1/2 cup to your rinse cycle to whiten and entire load.
• 2 parts olive oil or cooking oil mixed with 1 part lemon juice makes for an excellent furniture polish.
• For a safer, equally effective and less expensive hand sanitizer, you guessed it lemon juice!!

These are just a few uses for the juice of this super fruit. It's not new or improved. Just an inexpensive, super effective cleaning product courtesy of Mother Nature. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then that must be why so many cleaning products have a lemon scent!