The Viral Cleaning Tip: Effortlessly Get Rid of Yellow Sand from Your Blinds
You might have heard this hack before, but if you haven't - after last week’s sandstorms, it’s worth trying this method to clean your blinds easily.
(Credit: shutterstock)Are your blinds covered with annoying yellow sand after the recent storms? Don't worry: a remarkable tip circulating on social media promises a cheap and easy way to clean the slats on your home blinds from this stubborn sand.
Sure, stores offer various gadgets promising excellent behind-the-blinds cleaning, but most of them are quite expensive.
Honestly, who doesn't have these two essential items at home: barbecue tongs and a microfiber cloth? By simply wrapping the slightly damp cloth around the tongs, you can clean multiple blind slats at once. But that's not the real innovation we wanted to share with you.
Microfiber cloths stand out for their ability to attract dust grains and more. They are now used in the furniture, clothing, and cleaning industries and are considered very high-quality and trendy. More precisely, they belong to a family of synthetic fabrics made from polyester, polyamide, or a combination of the two.
In fact, microfiber cloths are one of the greatest inventions of the last century, whether used with cleaning agents or dry. The difference between a regular cloth and a microfiber cloth is that the fibers in microfiber are tiny and microscopic, with studies showing they have exceptional cleaning properties.
Why is that?
It’s not just because of the materials but also the production process—fibers split at least three times to achieve a thickness twenty times thinner than a human hair.
Studies conducted on microfiber cloths before their introduction to the cleaning industry found that the static electricity within significantly enhances cleaning quality. This is also why dust grains "disappear" into the cloth, never to be seen again.
