How to Clean your Porcelain Sink

If it’s one thing that we don’t clean enough in our house it’s scrubbing the kitchen sink – it’s one of those things that gets stained so easily, yet we procrastinate in efforts to clean other things that are more visible – the floor, the walls, sofas, carpet..

We have a fluted porcelain sink that’s ivory in color – and as much as I love it, it stains SO fast and so easily.  

Just the other night I decided on a whim to give it a scrub while I was waiting for dinner to come to a boil on the stove, and was surprised I was able to get it to look as good as new with just a few simple things under the cabinet.

In the past, my husband has always bought Barkeepers Friend. I never realized how well Baking Soda, Thieves Cleaner, & Lemon Essential Oil would work together – I don’t think we’ll be buying Barkeepers Friend from this point going forward!

To think that I just opted to do this sink cleaning on a whim is crazy – I never realized just a few minutes later I’d be taking pictures of a beautiful (like new) sink!

To clean each side of the sink:

• 1 C. Baking Soda
• 1 Capful of Thieves Cleaner
• 10 drops Lemon Essential Oil

To use: First, I sprinkled that 1 C. of baking soda in the sink evenly as to cover the entire bottom area.  Over the baking soda, I sprayed a generous amount of baking soda, then sprinkled on 10 drops of Young Living Lemon Essential Oil.

I took out my green scrub pad and gave it some elbow grease – and within just a minute or two the sink was cleaned up and all of the stains are removed.

Give it a little more power by using a 1/2 C. vinegar poured on the baking soda before you add the lemon essential oil and you might not have to scrub quite as much.

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