Grapefruit and Salt who would have thought?

I have a really great 17 year old son named Alex. Alex, like a lot of teens these days, likes to dye his hair. I am not thrilled with the colors he chooses so we compromise; he can color his hair if he uses gel that easily washes out. A couple of weeks ago Alex colored his spikes blue but failed to clean his comb when he was done, just left it on the porcelain sink. The gel washes out of hair all right, but failed to wash off the sink! When I went into his bathroom a couple of days later the stain had set and I was stumped on how to get it out. I tried my favorite cleaner baking soda, vinegar and water but even that left a faded blue stain. It then dawned on me this was a good time to try something I had seen on the BBC show How Clean is your house. If you have not seen this show you are missing a treat!

The show stars Aggie Mackenzie and Kim Woodburn two clean queens of England. Each episode they visit a filthy home to show the owner cleaning tips and lesson on hygiene and germs. Some of the homes are horrid; once such home was owned by a woman who claimed to be super sensitive to cleaners so therefore she refuses to clean. I have to admit as much as I hate my chemical induced migraines, I would gladly suffer them over living in filth. One of the cleaning tips for this sensitive woman involved a grapefruit and salt.

Kim took a grapefruit, cut it in half poured salt on one half and used it to scrub the woman’s long suffering porcelain sink. Off came years and years of grime. It was almost too good to be true; after all what is more natural and inexpensive than a grapefruit and some table salt?

I took one of our last grapefruits, grabbed some salt, put on my gloves and set out to test this tip out. Wow was I amazed! Not only did the grapefruit and salt take the blue stain right off it put a real shine on the sink. I don’t think the sink had looked this good in years! The grapefruit left such a clean fresh fragrance I went around trying it on everything! Itried it on fiberglass as I have an old worn fiberglass tub, no luck it did not work. It does however work on hard water stains on stainless steel. The acid in the grapefruit breaks down the grime ,kills germs and viruses while the salt acts as a safe scrubbing agent.

Aggie and Kim came through again; grapefruit and salt, who would have thought?