Neutralize Soft Surfaces Regularly
Soft furnishings behave like massive air filters scattered throughout your living space. Carpets, area rugs, heavy window curtains, and plush couch cushions trap airborne particles, cooking grease, and pet dander. While you might wipe down your solid floors and wooden tables, neglecting these soft surfaces allows stale odors to build up over months.
You can easily neutralize these trapped smells using ordinary baking soda. Baking soda is a natural, mild alkali; this means it chemically reacts with and neutralizes acidic odor compounds left behind by sweat, dirt, and food spills. Once a week, strip your couches of blankets and pillows, and sprinkle a fine, even layer of baking soda directly onto the upholstery and your living room rugs.
Allow the powder to sit undisturbed for at least thirty minutes. This dwell time gives the baking soda the opportunity to bond with and neutralize the odor molecules. Afterward, vacuum the surfaces slowly using a machine equipped with a clean HEPA filter. A slow vacuuming technique pulls up the powder along with the deeply embedded dust.
Do not forget your smaller fabric items. Throw pillow covers, decorative blankets, and pet throws should go into the washing machine every few weeks. If your curtains smell dusty, you do not necessarily need to wash them; take them down and tumble them in the dryer on a no-heat, air-fluff cycle with a damp washcloth for twenty minutes to knock the loose dust out.
I enjoyed this very helpful tip on how to avoid and get rid of odors.
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Hi Karen do you have any other tips? I’m from the Boston area where are you located?
Kevin
These are very helpful tips for keeping you home smelling odor and gem free.
Very helpful tips. Thank you.
Hi Nellie do you have any other tips? I’m from the Boston area where are you located?
Kevin
Thanks for all the information, some i new and some i didn’t. Great information especially about the shower curtain and leave the vent on for 40 minutes after you step out the shower.
Hi Alice do you have any other tips? I’m from the Boston area where are you located?
Kevin
Good info Will use for sure!
Hi Norma do you have any other tips? I’m from the Boston area where are you located?
Kevin
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Thanks, some of these I currently practice, but it is encouraging to know it’s working, and a few new one helps
Hi Charlotte do you have any other tips? I’m from the Boston area where are you located?
Kevin
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Hi Lora do you have any other tips? I’m from the Boston area where are you located?
Kevin
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Thanks this really works. TRY IT.
Baking Soda has a multitude of uses. Deoderizing is a great one. Thanks for the info.
All Good advice, Thanks.
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Then proceed to Wipe inside Interior Walls of Garbage Disposal and Underside of top rubber cover (CLEAN both underside and topside of rubber cover). The Last Step to Completely Clean Interior Garbage Disposal is to place 1/2 Cup of Baking Soda and Add White Vinegar to the Baking Soda to Mix before Pouring Mixture into Garbage Disposal . Leave Mixture at bottom of Garbage Disposal for (5) minutes and then turn on tap water & flip switch to Turn Garbage Disposal “ON” for about (2) minutes.. The Cleaning Process above will Eradicate mold, bacteria Odors, All Germs from the Inside of Garbage Disposal..
I as thinking, can you put baking soda in litter box under litter to help with odor?
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A few things that I hadn’t thought about. Thanks!
Hi, your ideas are very helpful. I already take measure in practicing two of your 8 ideas. First is the kitchen sink idea, & second is the Carpet idea. They both work incredibly well!!
I’ll definitely give your other ideas a try.
Thank you so much , for taking time out to help with your household ideas for ” one of the most important spaces of our lives.. ” Our Homes shared with Family & Friends “.
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Very good tips, some of them I already do. Will incorporate the new ones. Thanks for the tips.
Great ways to keep garbage can refreshers.
Almost all of these should be regular cleaning routine if you keep a clean house. Common sense
I would like to attempt your service to clean my home. I’ll see you on Facebook. I have a two story Home.
I have tried putting blankets on my couches for the dogs and inevitably when I get home they have pulled them off. Suggestions for refreshing furniture without putting baking soda on? They would be wallering in it quickly.
great tips..going to try a couple
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The toilet cleaning is great.
I’m only seeing 2 tips, how do I get all 7? Please and thank you.
These are great tips. I am hoping I can implement them all.
Nice suggestions…. especially how to get rid of sour smell…
Very helpful. As a nurse I’ve had to endure some pretty bad odors and the products used to eradicate them can be damaging to mucus membranes and skin. At home I prefer simpler but more effective products such as those you describe. My grandmother used to say cleanliness is next to godliness and she wasn’t whistling Dixie because she was from the remote Isle of Skye in Scotland in the very early 1900’s. A friend of mine almost died after mixing bleach and ammonia. I found her comatose on the bathroom floor.
Somehow the house got fruit flies. Mostly all fruit fly catchers/killers don’t work. They reproduce faster than you can catch them. My guess, one snuck in from bought fruit, but getting rid of them is embarrassing and torture. Do I have to wait for winter?
Tip on tip: After vacuuming fine powders, like baking soda, keep the vacuum efficient by thoroughly cleaning all the machines filters. Powder trapped in filters reduces the air flow substantially.