By using two simple ingredients from your kitchen cupboards, you can maintain your home and protect yourself from pests, without resorting to expensive and harmful products.
When it comes to natural remedies for cleaning, kitchen ingredients are often underestimated. However, they often hide unsuspected potential. This is the case for two ingredients well known to our grandmothers. These two simple ingredients, often found in our kitchens, offer much more than their traditional culinary uses. Together they become an effective remedy against dirt and pests. You still have to use them properly.
The first, with its strong fragrance and antiseptic properties, is effective in disinfecting surfaces while providing a pleasant smell. Its smell also repels small, unwanted creatures. The second, known for its abrasive and disinfectant properties, becomes even more effective when combined with the first. You might have guessed it, it’s bay leaves and salt. Together, these ingredients provide an economical and eco-friendly solution to keep your home clean and healthy. This mixture can be used in various places: on floors, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, or even to repel insects.
Why is it so effective? Bay leaf is famous for its powerful aroma. Although we like this smell, this is not the case for certain insects like moths, cockroaches or ants. By placing bay leaves with pinches of salt in small cotton bags, in strategic corners of your home (cupboards, door thresholds, window sills), you create a natural barrier against these undesirables. The salt, for its part, will also absorb humidity, creating an environment unfavorable to pests.
When it comes to home maintenance, these two ingredients are really useful. The combination of salt and bay leaf is perfect for creating a delicate but effective abrasive paste. To get your magical cleaning product, simply mix salt, warm water and a few chopped bay leaves. This mixture can be used to clean surfaces such as marble, wood and even copper.
You can also use this mixture to clean kitchen or bathroom surfaces. It is very effective in getting rid of traces of limescale on the taps or in the sink and shower, but also cleaning the worktop. The mixture acts as a degreasing and antibacterial cleaner and helps remove stains without damaging surfaces, while leaving a light refreshing smell. Adopting the bay leaf-salt mixture means saying goodbye to expensive chemicals that are often harmful to health and the environment and cleaning healthier for the planet as well as for your home… It’s worth a try, right? ?