Your kitchen won’t be completely clean if you forget to maintain the sink drain and trap. There are many cleaning tricks, but many of them tend to damage pipes and even the environment. And let’s not talk about chemical cleaning products which if they can be effective, this is done at the cost of considerable damage to nature. Faithful to our editorial line of offering you proven and ecological methods, we will see how to clean and disinfect your pipes.
A dirty drain not only gives off unpleasant odors, it is also a source of pollution and illness in the house. Not to mention the invasion of harmful insects that you may be victims of if they find a pantry in your pipes made of food scraps, peelings and other household waste that they are fond of.
This ecological and economical alternative, using only two homemade ingredients, will leave your kitchen clean.
Kitchen sink – Source: spm
How to clean the sink drain?
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Check out this ingenious trick.
Ingredients for cleaning drains
– 1/2 glass of lemon juice.
– 1/2 glass of baking powder. If you don’t have baking powder you can use a scoop of baking soda. In fact, baking powder is a mixture of tartaric acid, starch and… sodium bicarbonate.
Steps to follow :
1. Heat the lemon juice in the microwave for about 30 seconds.
2. Add the baking powder to the heated lemon juice.
3. Wait for the chemical reaction to occur, and mix the ingredients well.
4. Pour the mixture down the sink drain and wait 10 minutes. Then rinse the sink with hot water.
Kitchen sink – Source: spm
Lemon, like vinegar, is one of the great classics for home maintenance. It’s simple, it’s hard to find better than him. Very effective, it deodorizes, cleans, descales. Its combined action with soda or baking powder will increase its properties tenfold to make it the ideal product in your kitchen.
Apply this technique at least once a month to prevent your pipes from clogging and to permanently eliminate bad smells.
