An Apple (Cider Vinegar) A Day…
by Tao Oliveto
Green - safe and biodegradable - cleaning products have been around for awhile and continue to flood the market. This is good news for our health and the health of our environment but it also feeds the perception that to live the good, “clean” life, we need to buy lots of stuff in bottles and boxes. In actuality, nature provides most of what we need for clean living - inside and out and top on the list is Apple Cider Vinegar.
Apple Cider Vinegar, made from organic apples and ages in wooden barrels, demonstrates the miracles of fermentation. Inside your body, only a few teaspoons daily (mix with juice or water), it cleanses, detoxifies, balances ph, fights arterial plaque, provides vital minerals like potassium as well as living enzymes. It also aides digestion, regularity and assimilation. Pets and other animals benefit in many of the same ways from small amounts of apple cider vinegar added to food or water. It has also been proven to improve their resistance to fleas and biting flies.
On the outside, it conditions hair, helps heal skin irritations and cold sores, controls dandruff and athletes foot, soothes sore muscles and is a great deodorant. You can also use it as a mouth wash.
For household use, Apple Cider vinegar disinfects all surfaces, kills mold, bacteria and germs while being completely safe to use without gloves or ventilation. Mix a small amount with water and use it to clean windows without streaking. It can be combined safely with any other ingredient - adding salt enhances it’s disinfectant power. Use it regularly in drains with baking soda in to prevent build-up and clogs.
Shelves and cupboards full of cleaning products is so 1950’s. Go back to basics and back to nature with clean and green Apple Cider Vinegar. Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar is organic, unpasteurized, unfiltered and raw - tells all here.
April 11th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Is this not also true of white vinegar in terms of cleaning? What is the difference?
April 11th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Good question (and I apologize that my link to more info. is not live right now due to my new program issue - but will be shortly!)
In the meantime, you can go to http://www.bragg.com for complete scoop. You’re right, for cleaning purposes, white vinegar can do all those things, but —- it has no health benefits because it is distilled and “dead”.
One reason to choose the cider version even for cleaning is that organic white vinegar is hard to find and what I did come across at Whole Foods Market was more expensive than apple cider vinegar.
I ALWAYS choose organic products when they are available in order to support organic production of all kinds.
Thanks for your comment,
Tao