cleaning with vinegar

So on my quest to rid our home of toxic products.. (it's a journey, I still have a laundry room and many cabinets to purge) I heard a lot about vinegar. My past experience with vinegar is that "it smells". And while I consume Apple-Cider Vinegar for my candida and for over-all health, I hadn't purchased white vinegar. 

My sister-in-law turned me onto it as a natural way to clean, and though the smell is quite strong, once it drys the smell is completely gone! I now use it in a spray bottle (1 part vinegar 2-3 parts water) to clean my counters, floor corners and more.

However, I had to share a little trick I stumbled upon that TOTALLY worked.

Cleaning my microwave!

You heat a small bowl of vinegar and water in the microwave until hot and it will steam clean off EVERYTHING that is stuck on to the inside surface of your microwave. It just WIPES RIGHT OFF. My microwave inside was pretty gross and it looked SPOTLESS when I did this little trick. Even though I want to get away from using a microwave (one step at  a time), at least for now its spotless! ;)