Stop using aromatics to cover up the smell in your home. Only by cleaning the "3 key areas" thoroughly can you cure the root cause

 7:50am, 28 May 2025

Sometimes the home looks very clean, but it will have a strange or even a odor. Some people will use fragrance flakes or fragrance sprays to neutralize the taste, but experts say that this is just using fragrance to cover up the odor and there is no solution to the problem. What is really needed is to clean up thoroughly. According to reports from Garden, home cleaning expert Andel Courtney shared the key areas of her cleaning at home in TikTok video, which are divided into floors, kitchen sinks and trash cans. She said that those places are prone to breeding culprits such as bacteria, bacteria, and dirty things. Only surface cleaning can not eliminate them.

Courtney said that she would mop the floor with hot water, and she didn't need boiling water, the highest temperature that the water dragon could use. The principle of mopping the floor with hot water is the same as washing hands with hot water. It can kill bacteria and remove the dirt of oil or sticky skin.

But please pay special attention when mopping the floor with hot water. House Digest reports that too much water will damage the wood head or super wear-resistant wooden floor. If you have this kind of floor at home, just use warm water. Remember not to let the floor last too long, because moisture is not good for floors of these two materials.

Kitchen sink, especially the drain pipes are particularly prone to hiding dirt and causing unpleasant smell. Courtney said she would boil water on the stove. When the water was burning, she would use ordinary little sorbet and little sorbet cleaning agent to scrub the sink, and after the water was boiled and opened, the cleaning agent was poured into the water pipe.

This cleaning method also has restrictions. Hot water will cause the ceramic sink and water pipe to rupture, so the material can use hot water from the water dragon head. Courtney said that some people would want to use squids and vinegar to clean them at the same time, but vinegar will neutralize the effect of squids and vinegar. If you must use them together, let the squids calm for 10 to 15 minutes before adding vinegar.

Trash cans are a great source of smell in the home. Ideally, trash cans should be cleaned once a month, and 3 ounces of cinnamon can be sprayed with each cleaning. Cinnamon not only smells very fragrant, but also removes odor and kills bacteria, and is also a natural cervical remover, so that the fruit cans dare not approach your trash cans.

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