Transform Your Washing Machine with This Simple Lemon Trick

Reaching 2.7 million followers on social media isn’t easy, but for the cleaning blogger who goes by the name 'Babs,' it seems like a breeze. Her videos consistently garner reactions like, 'I tried this, it's amazing and easy. You should try it too and see.'

Who among us hasn’t occasionally forgotten wet laundry in the machine, only to be rewarded with a moldy smell? If this has happened to you and that musty smell lingers, even after re-washing, you’ll want to embrace Babs’ tip.

Don’t ask us how she came up with it, but Babs suggests cutting a lemon in half, generously coating it with toothpaste, and then putting it in the machine on a high-temperature cycle.

"When you do this to your machine, it’s like it just came out of a beauty spa. The 'interior' feels fresh and smells amazing," she claims. She also mentions that instead of throwing money away on expensive products that don’t always work against mold smells, this inexpensive hack is effective.

Like many of her videos, this one took the internet by storm, going viral with over 120,000 likes and 1,800 comments saying, 'I did it and it worked, thank you so much.'

How do you avoid mold next time? Well, it's best to remember that most laundry left in the machine for more than eight hours begins to smell. Even if it’s late at night and you don’t have the energy to hang it up now, it’s better to take it out of the machine and place it in a laundry basket in a shady spot until you can hang it in the morning.