Lemon juice, tea tree oil, baking soda & vinegar. All items you'd likely find in your pantry, but they are also being used in a lot of homes as natural cleaning products.

We're constantly told that the chemicals in household cleaning products are harmful to us and our families, so a lot of us are seeking natural alternatives that can be found around the home, but do they work?

In this episode of The Quicky we dish the dirt on which products really will help keep your home clean and fresh and which are just bad science experiments.

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Host: Grace Rouvray

With thanks to:

Nathan Kilah - Lecturer in Synthetic Chemistry at the University of Tasmania

Producers: Grace Rouvray & Claire Murphy

Executive Producer: Kally Borg

Audio Producer: Tegan Sadler

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Bi-carb & Vinegar & Other DIY Cleaning Myths Unpacked

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