Do not complain, that at cleaning it is necessary to use "chemistry". Our grandmothers had to apply set of uneasy cunnings.
During cleaning, getting from a shelf the next means for washing of floors or tile cleaning, you do not reflect at all as was uneasy to clean off the house to the household chemical goods invention. Certainly, all ancient means were natural, but it is impossible to tell, that all of them were harmless.
For example, windows and glasswares washed water with ammonia, and for shine in
tazik with the soap solution prepared for washing of a crystal chandelier, added both liquid ammonia, and vinegar. To give to a mirror pleasant light the mix consisting of ice water and a blue in which usually rinsed linen should. Table knifes, spoons and plugs
draili polovinkami a crude potato to achieve shine and to remove a web.
Clothes cleaned with application of set of the most different means earlier: a chalk, alum, weak coffee and spirit.
For example, stains from sweat on sweaters and blouses to young mistresses were offered to be deduced by means of wine vinegar. Light stains and the burnt out places on a dark fabric deleted, I operate with a brush moistened in broth of an ivy or in strong tea tea leaves. And traces from ink were recommended to be washed off spirit and
otstiryvat it is indispensable in warm pair milk.
Umbrellas cleaned off from a dust and a dirt by means of vinegar and water, the same sal ammoniac, and the most harmful stains tried to clean by means of spirit. For removal of a mould and stains from it it was recommended to clean clothes curdled milk.
That tiled walls shone, them rubbed with a vinegar and water mix. If sanitary technician in a bathroom became covered by limy touch, mistresses took baking soda and a rigid brush in hands – and rubbed, rubbed, rubbed …
Bath washed too with soda or a mustard powder, and the eaten stains tried to bleach a chlorine solution.
In books on housekeeping the whole sections have been devoted what means to use for cleaning. Each procedure consisted of several, sometimes labour-consuming, stages. For example,
the instruction on washing of windows looked approximately so:
1. Dissolve two table spoons of a chalk in one litre of water.
2. Wet glasses soap water.
3. Smear a window with a cretaceous solution.
4. Remove a chalk a dry rag together with a dirt.
5. Other rag or the newspaper rub glass before shine occurrence.
