Stop Mixing Baking Soda & Vinegar - Laundry Tips

Please stop mixing vinegar and baking soda when cleaning. While it’s a very fun reaction it completely naturalizes the benefits of both.

Baking soda, sodium bicarbonate, is a high pH water softener that should be introduced early in the wash cycle. To achieve this add a tablespoon or two directly into the drum. Baking soda is also an amazing laundry booster that I talk about in other videos!

Vinegar is an acidic low pH chemical that should be introduced late in the wash cycle. Vinegar helps with stain and odor removal along with fabric softening.

When you combine the two they neutralize each other, from a pH perspective, which negates a lot of their benefits. I love both just keep them apart, they’re like fighting kids.

[satomz]

Yes! OMG! Thank you! There's just way too many guides and advisors encouraging mixture of baking soda and vinegar, and I was going mad!

[nathanjohnson]

I have thought about that every time i see someone say this. This is so true. Baking soda is a base and vinegar is an acid and they absolutely cancel each other out. Im glad you made this video. Ive had this discussion with my wife many times. It just wastes both.

[brenorocha]

You gotta keep'em separated!
*guitar riff starts*

[Dorlinedainwen]

I've been using vinegar in place of fabric softener for years. It's so good at getting smells out!

[lyndajaeger]

I've completely stopped buying scent beads, fabric softener, and dryer sheets. I still use laundry soap. It is so much cheaper, my clothes aren't damaging as quckly. All of mh sensitive family members have seen a change for the better in their skin. My towels are super absorbent and fluffy now. Like a good hotel towel. I use my wash stuff exactly like this, 2 wool balls in the dryer.

[kaycook]

Exactly. Vinegar cuts the soap during the rinse cycle and your clothes will be soft. No dryer sheets needed

[sharit]

THANK YOU! MAJOR pet peeve of mine...either one has good cleaning abilities, but keep apart! Like mixing hot water with ice and expecting something great...

[TaloyaC]

I actually use the baking soda in my pre wash compartment and vinegar in the fabric softener compartment.

[amandasjoberg]

FINALLY, thanks for bringing attention to this, I'm so tired of people spreading misinformation

[juleshunter]

Finally... someone said it out loud for the people in the back 👍

[attyiaturRehmanNasira]

Finally 🙏🏽 someone with scientific reasoning in cleaning processes

[mnccslls]

I add a little Dawn soap into my dirty clothes before washing as a stain lifter and gets the sweat stains out, vinegar for the rinse and baking soda in the dryer so my clothes repel cat hair.

[A__Mina]

I’m glad I’ve been using them appropriately lol. You can actually wash fabrics with vinegar and water alone.

[mygitR]

Thank you so much! My intuition would always tell me that both react with each other, hence canceling each other out... So I'm not that crazy!!! 😅

[Itscannatella]

Thank youuu. I’m so sick of seeing people do this all the time.

[Helgatwb]

Any time ppl say to mix baking soda and vinegar together for any cleaning, it blows my mind!

[triciac]

It is great to clean your drains. Dump in some baking soda into the drain and then pour in vinegar. Then pour in some more vinegar to activate the rast of the vinegar. It works great on the garbage disposal also. I don't measure. Then rinse with water.

[yanajohnson]

If people paid attention in school perhaps they would know that baking soda and vinegar make salt and water. So you may aswell put a spoon full of salt in the washing. When you separate them the reaction is different because the soda is already washed away

[azigar]

THANK YOU!!! They need to stop it in general!! Basically it's an exciting way to make a salt and water

[lilyofthevalley]

Uhg!!! New to your channel as of today, and this video was a gut punch! I do this all the time. So happy I saw this.🎊🎉👍