Golden Swan White Vinegar, 5 l (Pack of 4)

We may all be driven back to such old, effective ways. The cleaning products aisles are full of shiny marketed, overpriced this and that with minor differentiating tweaks trying to convince us we need them for a more efficient, cleaner life. And much of it comes at toxic cost to the environment and to personal health, as they are full of relatively untested synthesized chemical cocktails.In my quest to avoid that complicated cocktail in food, personal care and beauty products, and around the house i crawled through many blogs and YouTube videos produced by ordinary people (not corporate marketers pushing their personal brand agenda) who have done these things, tried these things, and are keen to educate the rest of us, sharing their experience.Thanks, unnamed bloggers, etc.Several long used products came up, time and again. Our grandmothers and greatgrandmothers and possibly the great greats - not to mention, hopefully some grandfathers and greatgrandfathers who did not believe cleaning and the like should only be women's work! - would have recognised, used, and combined them.The ingredients are as here, white vinegar, bicarbonate of soda, borax, salt, and sometimes washing up liquid .Primarily the first two ingredients can be combined if you need to create some kind of foaming cleanser - for example for sinks and drains clogged with grease or limescale.Vinegar itself is brilliant as a sparkly disinfectant - toilet bowls (especially doubly helpful as a limescale remover and preventer) but generally for kitchen and bathroom surfaces. I add different essential oils for cleansing, (lemon) or for aromatics. Splendid also in final rinse cycle water or fabric conditioner tray (instead of fabric conditioner) to soften towels. I add something like lavender or geranium - a couple of drops - to the vinegar in the fabric conditioner drawer for this. Vinegar instead of fab con also cleans the machine itself of grease and limescale.I have some previous spray bottles which are useful filled with this vinegar for surface cleaning - not to mention cleaning windows - and have also decanted these 5 litre containers into other empty screw top containers for ease of use for straight pouring.Finally - a great price. Unfortunately all my local hardware type outlets only sell white vinegar in 500ml spray bottles or 1 litre screw tops, at a markedly higher price. These on here have a shelf life of 2 years unopened, or 6 months once opened. But I think that shelf life relates to the use of white vinegar as a pickling agent. Purely round the house would be indefinite.Even more finally...The product picture label says this 5% Golden Swan White Vinegar is ALSO for pickling -culinary use. Which was also my intention for it. However, the label on mine makes no mention of pickling. So I'm not sure if this IS for culinary. The difference is...culinary is acetic acid produced through fermentation and distillation. Acetic acid can also be produced as a lab product, in powdered form, added to water to produce varying % strengths.Finally, finally...explore YouTube vids egg to be amazed at the versatile effectiveness of this vinegar. I've only scratched the surface here. Longwindedly.

There are several use for white vinegar - I have two, and the reason I bought this, albeit i now consider 20L a bit much!!!1. Cleaning Pewter. Combined with flour and a tooth brush, i use this to clean pewter models without causing any damage to the models. it needs to be thoroughly rinsed with soapy water afterwards and dried but makes the models lovely and clean without giving them a shiny metal finish, which is the wrong look for pewter.2. Weed killer. have a front and back garden as well as a driveway that is block paved. For the past 15 years i have spent every year pulling weeds and jet washing it to keep it clean..... along with spending a lot of money on weedkillers. I have tried them all from store own brand to known brands like Weedol. It can cost up to £30 to so my entire block paving to the recommended mix of commercial weedkillers....... and then i heard that vinegar works the same..... What can i Say - NO IT DOES NOTIt is 100 time BETTER. I filled my weed spray bottle with vinegar. I didn't water it down as i have loads!. I then proceeded around the garden spraying the gaps and weeds - there were a fair few. It was a sunny day and dried quickly. It smells very vinegary for about an hour but soon subsides. I had varying weeds from new shoots to some 15cm tall and round.The next morning, the weeds were shrivelled and brown - completely dead. Within a few days, they had disintegrated and completely gone. I have never seen commercial weedkillers work this well - truly amazing..... for vinegar!After 5 weeks i have not even seen the hint of a shoot anywhere. My garden is completely weed free. SO much cheaper and less work than off the shelf stuff.Whilst it wouldn't be good to drink, I also have cats and feel more confident that they are safer with this sprayed than commercial weedkillers, despite many saying pet friendly.A brilliant and versatile liquid that can be used for 100's of applications - just google itA cost effective way of buying it

Excellent value, does the job!

Does the job