Folk remedies that help get rid of dust in the house for a long time

If you decide to completely get rid of dust, I have to disappoint you - it is almost impossible to do, but you are quite capable of reducing its amount as much as possible, along with dust and dust mites in your home. To do this, it is not at all necessary to run to the supermarket for an expensive air purifier or antistatic agent. You can easily fight back against dusty surfaces in your apartment using the means at hand.

Homemade antistatic agent

Of course, you can easily buy an antistatic agent at a hardware store, but if you want to become the owner of a natural product without any chemicals, then, with a little effort, you can make it yourself. The ingredients are the simplest:

• 100 ml water;
• 30 ml vinegar;
• 2 tbsp. l. olive oil;
• 10 drops of eucalyptus oil.

Mix all the ingredients, pour the resulting product into a spray bottle or glass cleaner bottle. After spraying a homemade antistatic agent on the surface of the furniture, wipe the polish with a soft cloth. After treatment, wipe dry. You will not only wipe the dust off the furniture, but also fill the room with a pleasant aroma. And, most importantly, eucalyptus oil will kill bacteria.

If desired, eucalyptus oil can be replaced with any other oil - all of them will perfectly repel dust.

Alcohol

If it is not possible to wipe the dust from the light bulbs, since it has covered them with a thick, dense layer, then soak a cotton swab in alcohol and wipe the glass. After such cleaning, the paws will shine brighter, and dirt will settle on their surface much more slowly. Just don't turn on the light until they are completely dry after processing!

Salt

Light-colored surfaces can be wiped off dust with a saline solution. It is prepared from:

• 1 stack warm water passed through a filter;
• 1 tsp. rock salt.

Mix the ingredients until the salt is completely dissolved. After treating the surface with this product, wash it clean and wipe dry.

Just do not use on dark furniture - whitish marks may remain.

Lemon

To reduce the number of germs and bacteria in the room, you can use a lemon solution. To prepare it you need to take:

• 1 lemon;
• 30 ml sunflower oil.

A mixture of lemon cut into pieces with vegetable oil should be infused for a week, and then add 1 glass of hot water to it and strain through cheesecloth. When everything is ready, soak a cloth in the solution and, wrung out, wipe the surface of the furniture.

Glycerol

To wipe polished and decorative surfaces, you can use glycerin diluted with water in a ratio of 1 to 10. After mixing the ingredients, dampen a cloth and wipe the dusty areas. This product will also remove dust from books on bookshelves.

Soda

Baking soda can be used to clean carpets from dust to the maximum, and with any length of pile. Take these ingredients:

• 1 liter of water;
• 500 g soda;
• 1 tsp. cinnamon;
• 3–5 clove inflorescences.

After mixing baking soda with water and adding cinnamon and cloves, you can apply the product to the carpet, then leave it for 2 hours so that the mixture saturates it well. Then you will need to vacuum the carpet.

Bay leaf

You can kill pathogenic microorganisms and clean the carpet using the following solution:

• 1 liter of water;
• 5–6 bay leaves;
• 1 pinch of cinnamon.

Pour the mixture into a spray bottle and spray over the surface of the carpet. Vacuum after 10-15 minutes.

Vinegar essence

An excellent product for rinsing dust cloths and floor rags. Add a few drops of essence to the rinse water and disinfect them from dust mites in this way.

Soap

You will need a soap solution to clean suspended ceilings. Use a soft brush dipped in soapy water to gently wipe the surface, because even there dust collects.

Old sock

You can easily get rid of dust by putting an old terry sock on your hand like a glove and walking over surfaces where dust likes to collect: cabinets, tables, cornices, chandeliers, blinds. If after cleaning you do not throw away the sock, but wash it, then this product will become reusable for you.

Vacuum cleaner

You can refresh the upholstery of upholstered furniture and drive away mites using a vacuum cleaner. Prepare the solution:

• 1 liter of water;
• 1 tbsp. l. salt.

Soak a piece of gauze in it (about 10 minutes), and then, after squeezing it thoroughly, wrap it around the vacuum cleaner attachment and vacuum the sofa.

Chlorophytum

To reduce dust in the house, be sure to have a pot of chlorophytum. And don’t forget to spray its leaves with water every day, then there will be much less dust in the apartment. Chlorophytum is number 1 in this case.

Other flowers

Other indoor plants can also combat air purity in the apartment, for example, ficus or aloe. And spathiphyllum will help eliminate the unpleasant smell of plastic from household appliances.

1. Geranium and laurel can fight mold and can also neutralize harmful substances that make up wood.
2. Pathogenic organisms in the room will destroy gerbera or dracaena.
3. Begonia is able to saturate the room with oxygen.
4. If you need to humidify the air, then no one can do it better than Dieffenbachia. By the way, it can also prevent the appearance of fungi.
5. Schefflera will help fight the smell of paint or varnish.
6. And heavy smokers should definitely place a bokarna on the windowsill in the kitchen, which will absorb the unpleasant odors of tobacco.

Now you know that you can maintain cleanliness and comfort in your apartment without resorting to buying expensive chemicals, which themselves can harm the residents’ bodies. So fight dust with folk remedies and do it as often as possible so that your family gets sick less.