Taneisha Gordon

 Uses of Hydrogen Peroxide Audio File: 04:36 You usually find hydrogen peroxide in the first aid aisle or in your first aid kit at home, but there are so many extra uses for hydrogen peroxide aside from just taking care of wounds and scrapes and burns.  So stick around and I'll just show you seven kool ways you can use hydrogen peroxide; And just a quick reminder, if you haven't done so already, to subscribe to the Clean MySpace channel and like this video if you have a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in your first aid kit.  So what's the deal with hydrogen peroxide and why does it work so well? And why do you ask? Hydrogen peroxide you normally find in your first aid kit because it's really great like cleaning your wounds, you put a little bit on the wound, it helps bubble up any of that bacteria or dirt right to the surface and it really keeps things clean, helping you not get an infection.  So think about that science and kind of apply it to cleaning, it disinfects well but it does so many other things too.   Now something to know about hydrogen peroxide, it remains in this brown bottle at all times until just before you are going to use it.  When it's in this brown bottle it's protected and the minute that it is exposed to light, like the rest of us, it becomes unstable, not like the rest of us.  So you want to make sure that it's always locked up until you actually need it.   Let's start things off in the application that most of you guys know about already: hydrogen peroxide as a stain remover.  It is a great alternative to bleach except it's not chlorine bleach and you use it for first aid.  So I feel alot better by using hydrogen peroxide.  The way I like to use hydrogen peroxide is in a solution of two parts hydrogen peroxide and then one part dish soap, mix that altogether, blot up your stain first, apply this solution to your stain, let it sit for about five ten minutes and then launder it as usual.  This solution really helps nab those stains, and you can also use it on carpet stains or upholstery stains.   I don't know about you but am really not into ingesting pesticides, thank you very much; so a great way to deal with that is to make a solution. You can use one litre or one quart of water, they are about the same; to that you are going to add a cup of hydrogen peroxide, there's your solution.  Dump in your produce that you want to wash, leave it there for a few minutes, give it a good rinse, give it the whole paten dry and that way your produce will be ready for you to eat, no bacteria and no pesticides.   We could ask alot about how to clean grout, and recently we have a little bit of garbage spill at the house and some garbage juice got into a grout line and there was a really quick solution for that using hydrogen peroxide, so I will share that with you guys.  All you need to do is mix two parts baking soda to one part hydrogen peroxide, get out a cleaning toothbrush, give it a good stir, apply that paste to the affected grout line, leave it for a few minutes, give it a good scrub with that cleaning toothbrush, rinse really really well cause the baking soda is going to leave a fine gritty kind of feel behind, so you got to get rid of that, but once that's gone your grout is going to look amazing.   Alot of people use bleach to clean their toilet bowls and here is a quick distinction.  Bleach doesn't actually clean, it disinfects and it can help whiten stains; but if you don't want to use bleach you can sub in hydrogen peroxide.  All you need to do is pour about a cup to a half cup, whatever you got lying around in the toilet bowl, leave it there for a couple of hours, then get your toilet bowl brush give it a really good swish in that bowl, get under the rim, go nuts on the toilet bowl.  Then give it a flush and what that will do is help break down stains and rid of any lingering bacteria.   Hydrogen peroxide is incredible in the laundry room.  The same way you would use bleach, you could use hydrogen peroxide, but frankly I'd argue that hydrogen peroxide performs even better; not only does it whiten whites, but new moms who ask me all the time how to deal with baby stains or clot diaper stains, here is all you have to do.  Take a cup of hydrogen peroxide, add it to the bleach compartment in your machine or just add it to your wash as you would normally with bleach, let your machine do its thing.  Hydrogen peroxide has this amazing ability especially with protein stains to break the bond between the dirt and the material.  In that way your stain will loosen up, it will be able to wash out much easier, and you will have better looking laundry.