Vinegar: Forgotton Hero (beta)

There's a ton of uses vinegar has which people (including myself) just seem to be unaware of/forgotten.

With all of the chemicals we use on a day to day basis that we feel we need to use in order to stay healthy and sterile, vinegar is the all inclusive natural alternative.[1]

Apparently people used to use vinegar all the time around the house and was used as a remedy for different ailments for thousands of years. However, with the rise of modern science and technology it seems people have turned away (and sometimes justly) from "traditional" agents and forgotten things like vinegar.

Part of the reason is that chemical agents like Clorox® are able to say their products disinfect[2] because their products are considered by the EPA as pesticides as well. Now (for some reason) in order for a product to be labeled as a disinfectant it must also be considered a pesticide by the EPA[3][4].

However, the vinegar you buy in the store ~4-5% acidicy has [5]

Numerous studies show that a straight 5% solution of vinegar, such as what is sold in the supermarket, kills 99% of bacteria, 82% of mold and 80% of viruses.[6]

Note: I have yet to find the study for this quote, which is strewn throughout the net but no one seems to be citing the actual study(-ies).

The FDA agrees that vinegar does kill bacteria, though again no study [7].

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