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Homemade Scrub for Kitchen Sinks

three fresh lemons

This natural, non-toxic homemade recipe for cleaning kitchen sinks is absolutely fantastic. Your kitchen sink and drain will be cleaned and deodorized with a nice, fresh scent left behind by using just two simple ingredients….a lemon and baking …continue reading

Quick and Simple Recipe for Shining Plant Leaves

plants sitting on a counter near a window

Actually, this one is so simple that I’m not even sure if it can be classified as a homemade recipe. Theres only one ingredient that’s needed to make your plant leaves nice and shiny….milk. Yep, that’s it.

Here’s all you need to do:

Pour a little milk in a container or bowl.
Dab a cotton ball, paper towel, or clean cloth into the milk.
Wipe plant …continue reading

Homemade Furniture Cleaner & Polish

polished dining room table

If I suddenly shouted "oil and vinegar", would salad be the first thing that comes to your mind? It certainly comes to my mind, but today, instead of putting the oil and vinegar on my salad, I'm going to push my bowl over to the side and use it to clean and polish the table. This homemade furniture cleaner and polish is super quick and easy. Best of all, it's a safe, green, non-toxic cleaner …continue reading

Homemade Liquid Starch Recipe

ingredients and supplies

When I ran across this recipe for making homemade liquid starch I was ecstatic as starch is one of those things that I just can't do without when ironing. Not only does using starch make ironing easier, it also gives clothes that crisp, clean, fresh from the dry cleaners looks. Starching your clothes when ironing also helps to preserve your clothes as the dirt sticks to the starch and not the fabric. This homemade liquid …continue reading

Welcome

Welcome to Pinky Has A Brain. This blog was created because I thought it would be really neat to put some of Grandma’s homemade cleaning recipes and other “Old Wives” secret home cleaning  remedies to the test. Please  join me on this journey as I pull out the video camera and prove to you…and myself whether brewed tea leaves will really make my wood floors clean and shiny, vinegar cleans glass as good as Windex, or …continue reading