Uses for Borax
Borax has been around for a long time and you can use it to kill ants with a recipe, clean your laundry and so much more. This article has 13 amazing ways that will make you use borax to make cleaning super easy for you. You will love the borax ant killer recipe that’s below. Borax is also called 20 mule team borax so if you see that name, they are the same product.
Borax 20 Mule Team Uses
Below will be the list of ways that you can use borax to clean.
Cleaning Shower Grout Joints
If you are not careful with your bathroom shower, it will start to develop mold in each of the corners. I have had this happen to me, and it was so hard to clean because when mold gets into those grout joints, it’s really hard to come out because the grout used in the shower is sanded grout.
If you have an empty spray bottle at home, fill it, and add 1/4 cup of borax and spray each area that’s affected by the mold.
Leave it for an hour and go do something else; by the time you go back, the mold will come off without you putting in too much effort.
How To Use Borax In Laundry
Add  1/2 cup of borax per gallon of water to the reservoir that the machine has. This will help the cleaning process and remove any odor that might be there. Make sure to empty the reservoir and clean it properly when you are done.
You don’t want the borax to dry in some moving part of the machine because this can cause problems in the long run. You can use borax on any laundry that you are doing, it could be carpets, rugs or clothes.
How To Kill Ants With Borax
I have seen some little ants already in my house, and I hate using those toxic bug spray that has you chocking after you use it. Borax is an amazing ant killer if you mix it with sugar.
The Borax ant killer recipe works by mixing 1 cup of borax with half a cup of sugar. You can add a little water and create a paste and place it anywhere in your house. If you want to use it outside, you can just sprinkle it around the area where the ants are and they will come to eat the sugar while eating the borax.
Home Made Air Freshener
If you’re looking to just deodorize something in your house just to have it fresh again, then making an air freshener with borax will work for you.
Your dog may grab your couch cushion just for a few seconds; his mouth odor will still be on it. The cushion you have may not be able to be washed because of the material, so you would need something to deodorize it and clean it as well. Mix borax and water in a spray bottle to quickly get ride of the odor.
Related Article: How to make homemade air freshener with laundry detergent
Borax For Fleas
Dogs and cats play outside and will bring in all different types of things on their body and go straight to their bed and lay down. The fleas will come off their body and hide in their bed.
You won’t be able to wash the bed every single day, so what you need to do is sprinkle borax on the bed and brush it off. This will kill any fleas on the bed as well as get them off your dog or cat.
Clean Hairbrushes
Not all of us have soft, moist hair; some of us use really greasy hair products. Maybe not even greasy hair products but maybe use too much in one use. We all had this happen to us, and we put too much hair product in our hair.
If your hair is too long, that can be a disaster for your clothes and hairbrushes. You can pour one gallon of warm water in a container and add 1 cup of borax. Place the brushes in and let them sit, cleaning the brushes and removing the grease and hair will be so easy.
Clean Oil Spill
I remember one day my cousin and I were cooking, and we put the pot on the stove and didn’t turn the pot handle in-words, so it was slightly hanging off, and my hand hit it.
The entire floor was filled with oil. The worse part of it was cleaning the oil off the floor; I use two rolls of paper towels to wipe it off the floor, then the next hour trying to clean the floor.
I wish I had known this hack, pouring borax on the oil will clean it in one or two goes without leaving any residue to slip on.
Clean Stove
Clean your stove after your done cooking greasy food fast and easy. You can either make a paste with borax and water or just sprinkle the borax on the stove an use a sponge to clean the stove off.
Borax For Mold
Borax is a great product to kill mold, you might be wondering whats mold. Mold is formed when too much moisture is in an area and not dry enough.
This isn’t healthy for people, so as soon as you see the mold, you have to clean it. Sometimes people have to redo their entire basement because mold is all over it.
They had to buy new furniture and even sheetrock that makes up the walls, you can use a dehumidifier to suck out the moisture to prevent this from happening.
To clean the mold, mix a cup of borax with some hot water and clean the area that has the mold before it spreads. Do not wipe the extra borax away when you are done. The borax will continue to clean the area while it drys.
Related Article: How to clean moldy dishes
Remove Rust
Rust will form anywhere if you do not pay close attention to it, if water catches it and it runs, it will leave a nasty stain that’s hard to remove. Mix one tablespoon of borax and one tablespoon of lemon juice to create a paste.
Apply it to the area, then let it sit for a few minutes then use a sponge to scrub the rust away. If the mixture is too hard, you can add some water to it until it forms a perfect paste.
Clean Shower Walls
Mix borax and water together and form a paste and use a sponge and apply it to your shower walls overnight and just wash it off in the morning.
If you do this once every two weeks, you can prevent molds and prevent scrubbing the walls each week when you go to clean the shower.
Kill Weeds or PlantsÂ
Weeds will definitely grow around your house, and you either have to buy other products to kill them or pull them out with your hand.
Before you go and buy anything for it or use your hands check if you have any borax in the house and use it to kill the weeds. Just sprinkle some borax anywhere that you see the weed coming up.
It’s important to keep borax away from other plants because the chemicals in borax will kill your plants or flowers just the same as how it will kill the weeds in your driveway or around your house. This method will slowly kill the roots of the plant or weed.
If you want to kill them even faster, you can mix 1 cup of borax to 16 oz of warm or hot water. Make sure to shake it well each time you use it, then spray it on the weeds.
I would suggest that you use a water bottle instead of a spray bottle. The borax will clog the spray bottle and make it useless.
 This Is After 3 Days
If you are wondering how you are going to use a water bottle, then here is the method that works for me. I put one small hole in the cover of the water bottle, and each time I squirt it out, I shake it. In a week, you will see the weeds changing color and die. If you do not like this method, here is an easier method you can do as well by using Vinegar and some other kitchen items.
Borax To Clean ToiletÂ
Do you want to know the easiest way to clean your toilet without you doing anything, really? You can either pour it in the tank or the toilet.
Leaving borax overnight in your toilet while everyone is sleeping is the best way to clean it. In the morning, all you need to do is use the toilet brush and give it a little scrub, and the toilet will look white and clean again.
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