Cleaning Solutions

Cleaning Your Mattress

While in Atlanta last month,  my new daughter in law, Anne,wanted to clean her mattress. We went in search of a box of baking soda at the grocery store. Using baking soda and Remnant Remedy's Spice Defense kills bed bugs and also makes your bedding smell so fresh. Now, don't get the wrong idea, Josh and Anne do not have bed bugs,but she wanted to use it as a precautionary measure.

So to clean your mattress you will need

1 cup of baking soda
10 drops of spice defense
sifter

Mix baking soda and spice defense in a cup. Strip bed down to mattress, even take off additional memory foam if it is separate from your mattress. Hold the sifter over mattress and slowly pour and shake the mixture all over the mattress. Let sit for 2 hours. Vacuum all of it up. Now your mattress smells and feels fresh. Do this every season.


Below is the link to my long time  friend's site , Nitza Moshe with Remnant Remedy.

http://www.remnantremedy.net/store/index.php/shemen-oils/blends-shemen-essential-oils/spice-traders.html

Cleaning your real silver

                                                                                                                 All I can say is unbelievable. I would have never believed this until I tried it myself. My friend Claudia told me about this and I was highly skeptical. Every Friday night we have a nice Shabbat meal. I like to set my table beautifully and like to change the tablescape often. Sometimes I set the table in silver and light blue. Keeping the silver clean can be a daunting task. My eyes popped out of my head when I tried this. I could not believe how fast this worked on my silverware. I have not tried it yet on pitchers, bowls, candlesticks etc.

So for those of you who have been blessed with real silver and appreciate its beauty, here the fast and easty way to clean your silverware. I will write about two ways to do this. I was warned that there was a chemical smell so I opted to adapt this to my outside sink.

Sorry I don't have a picture of the silverware when it was blackened 

You will  need

1. heavy duty tin foiil
2. baking soda
3. boiling hot water

First line your sink with tin foil (or line a large casserole dish with tin foil). Boil a quart of water. Place silverware on top of foil. Cover silverware with baking soda. 

Pour boiling water over the silverware and voila in seconds the silverware is clean. It is the interacting with the tin foil that cleans it. This will not work if you do not use tin foil.