Clean Your Washing Machine Naturally

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Clean your washing machine naturally.

Add 3 4 cups of. You can clean a top loading or front loading machine with white vinegar or bleach. Do not add clothes or detergent. Scrub the residue with an old toothbrush rinse the tray and put it back into your machine.

Add the quart of bleach and let the full machine run for one minute to mix up the bleach with the water. Cleaning a washing machine fill the empty washer with hot water as if you re doing a large load of laundry. Allow the machine to run again to mix in the baking soda. Stop the washer at this.

Every few weeks fill a dishwasher safe mug two thirds full with white vinegar and place on the top rack of your dishwasher. When the cycle is done add vinegar to the drum and the essential oils if using. Open the top of the machine and let it sit all bleach y and full for an hour. Run the dishwasher on the normal cycle with hot water for extra sterilization.

For a top loading washing machine add borax or oxygen bleach and washing soda to a full drum of hot water and wash on a heavy duty or cleaning cycle. Keep the lid of your washing machine open in between cycles to prevent mildew and let the drum dry out. Scrub out seals gaskets and dispensers the ultimate source of foul odor emanates from the seals the gasket and the dispenser. Add about cup of baking soda.

Clean your washer every month to keep it fresh. Add oxygen bleach and washing soda to the drum and run the hottest cycle your washing machine has. There are 3 steps to deodorizing your washing machine and all three utilize natural ingredients found around the kitchen. My preference is to use either white vinegar or non chlorinated bleach because they are safe all natural solutions but some washing machine manufacturers recommend only using chlorinated bleach.

Set your washer to run on hot water with the largest load setting. If there is a lot of residue run another cycle with 4 c 950 ml of vinegar to remove it. Cleaning washing machine with vinegar and baking soda cup of baking powder 1 liter 1 quart of vinegar. Run another hot water cycle.

Add in four cups of white vinegar and turn it on. Add a cup of white vinegar every few weeks. Once it s filled up and. After the cycle is finished add vinegar and essential oils to the liquid dispenser on the tray.

Use vinegar to clean a dishwasher. Run another hot cycle.