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8 unimaginable uses for potatoes in cleaning (that you didn't know)

Forget the thousand and one cleaning products on which you spend hundreds of euros. A simple potato can also be very useful in household chores.

8 unimaginable uses for potatoes in cleaning (that you didn't know)
Notícias ao Minuto

08:58 - 12/04/24 por Notícias ao Minuto

Lifestyle Dicas e truques de limpeza

If you are one of those people who cannot resist a good home trick, know that potatoes will be one of your greatest allies in domestic chores. This ingredient is present in a list of home cleaning solutions from Informe Brasil.

See below eight utilities of potatoes that promise to surprise you:

1- Use a little potato to scrub glass and mirrors. The starch present in this food helps to remove dirt and stains;

2- Cut a raw potato in half and rub it on the stains that insist on not leaving carpets. Once again, potato starch is responsible for the 'magic'; 

Also Read: We should all put a lemon in the dishwasher once a month (Portuguese version)

3- Make a paste with mashed potatoes and salt. Then apply it to copper utensils and rub carefully;

4- Rub crushed potatoes on silverware. After a few minutes, just rinse;

5- Rub raw potatoes on CDs and DVDs and you will see that the scratches will disappear;

6- To remove dirt from leather shoes, rubbing a raw potato on them also solves the problem;

7- Place a potato cut in half in a bowl to absorb unpleasant odors in closed environments;

8- Rub a little potato on pencil and pen marks on the walls.

Also Read: Pots, pans and stove dripping with grease? See how to clean them (Portuguese version)

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