welcome back to Andrea Jean Cleaning today I'm going to show you how to clean
out your humidifier naturally with one simple ingredient and that here is
vinegar I just picked this up at my local Dollar Tree now this is very
different than distilled white vinegar that you may use in your home in your
kitchen I like the cleaning vinegar better
because it is slightly more acidic I think it's about 20% more acidic than
white distilled vinegar but if you check on the back here you can see a variety
of places that you can use this particular cleaning video and for a buck
you know I'm all about that here I have a measuring cup and then I have a little
rag this process is going to be super quick and should take you less than 30
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things first let's go ahead and empty this out and then I will show you the
next step ok so I am about 25 weeks pregnant so I
love this method because it is all-natural you want to make sure it's
unplugged of course we're gonna lift it up here and there's two things that we
need to take off if your humidifier is full and mine is slimy and disgusting
I'm gonna get you in here in a second so you can see all that but what you want
to do is just go ahead and twist the top part off like so and then you want to go
ahead and twist this bottom part off now this can be a little bit tricky
depending upon how tight is on there
there we go and then we're just gonna go ahead and drain it out
get all that excess water out as best as possible and then you're going to want
to go ahead and dump the base to awesome everything and then bring it over to the
sink let's get in here really close so you can see all the dirt and grime that
accumulates it's recommended that you do this once a week so that your humidifier
can work at optimal levels this little rubber thing goes on here when we clean
this I'm going to take that off again here's our lid and you can see there's
some buildup in there as well this will actually start to turn pink too at some
point depending upon the last time I did it
now look in there so gross right yes all right let's move on to the next step so
I have my measuring cup and what am I do is I'm going to measure just one cup of
vinegar it's about one cup to go inside of here well we do that I do have a
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all of this in here as well you can see here the vinegar is not touching this
part we're going to wipe it down and if you wouldn't move on to the next step
okay so this part here what I'm actually going to do because I want to get the
inside of this all cleaned up I'm gonna put the top and this back on again I'm
going to dump one cup of vinegar in here as well so let me just move this over
very carefully
so about two cups total this is more of an art than a science
and I want to make sure I have my top here because I'm going to put the top
back on so I can swish it all together
and lock it in place
all right get that all mixed up all around as best as we can turn you this
way you can see it's all sudsy too and soapy awesome okay next step so now what
I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and soak all these parts here in the
solution I'll take this I don't know I'm going to be able to get this one in here
okay so what I'm gonna do actually I'm gonna get a little Bowl to put this
piece and it will soak this as well and we're going to soak it all for about 15
to 20 minutes alright got myself a nice little bowl here make sure that in there
good all right I'm just gonna soak this part
okay I'll meet you back here about 15 to 20 minutes one thing that I do want to
do to make sure I get enough integrand there is I'm just gonna dip this rag in
and lather this piece down right here so I can get in there there we go
and this little piece right - I do a spray bottle that I could use to spray
in there I'm just gonna lather this down as well with some of the excess vinegar
good so now that this has been sitting for about 15 to 20 minutes I'm just
gonna go ahead and wipe everything down and I'm just gonna start with the top
here and get up any of that residue like so and it just comes off so easily
vinegar truly is a miracle product you can use it to unclog your drains I
recently did a video about what happens when you put vinegar on the top tank of
your toilet so be sure to check that video out as well I'm just going to take
this excess vinegar and dump it in here maybe for a little there there we go
we'll put this piece aside and we're gonna give everything a bath in my
bathtub you can do this in your kitchen sink as well but my kids I have three
kids I'm one in the way you can see you here and there can be very no easy out
there so and the bathroom for me is often the
best spot so I'm gonna clean that out this part can actually come off and you
can see that there is quite a bit of buildup in there as well where it's pink
so we'll get that out that's looking good a little pile there and this is
where it's really grimy and disgusting clean out this face and again you
shouldn't have to do a lot of scrubbing unless maybe you haven't been cleaning
it out and lime and other debris have really collected on there awesome so I'm
gonna go ahead and dump this here in the sink and as far as this bug goes I'm
going to shake it up again shake it all around on the side be careful not to let
it all come over the top there like so
dump it out okay let's go ahead and head over to the bathtub really quick one
last thing I forgot to do is clean the top of this all these little moving
parts here get that cleaned out
vinegar is awesome at eliminating smells and odors and I know for many people the
smell of vinegar can be pretty off-putting and I can understand that
what I find though that the smell goes away pretty quickly here but everyone is
you know a little bit more sensitive to other things depending upon what it is
okay now time to give it a little bath so I got all my pieces over here now I'm
just going to rinse it out until the smell goes away
and I'm going to use pretty warm water
so a couple less things that we are going to do here there is a little knob
inside of here and if you push that you can get some water to come out of there
and kind of clean that area too so you want to get as much of the water out as
you possibly can the next thing I'm noticing is a little
bit grimy here inside so I'm just going to take this egg that had the vinegar on
it and I'm going to put it through if you had a little brush that would be
wonderful I'm going to put it through here pull it out the other end I'm just
gonna kind of go back and forth here like so a baby bottle brush or one of
those that you would use in your kitchen could probably fit in here pretty nicely
but I'm just gonna work with what I have right now perfect
take a peek that looks a lot better I'm gonna rinse this out I'm just going to
take my bowl
and it like so
perfect so now there's a couple other things
that you can do I have a towel here and I can go ahead and light everything on a
towel it's gonna take several hours for everything to dry go ahead and get that
out here we got our base and throughout this drying process I may flip things
over to make sure the water is getting out and each of these spaces like so if
you want to use it right away you certainly can but what I would recommend
doing is getting a towel and drying everything out as best as you possibly
can so for me I'm gonna go ahead and just let mine dry it naturally here
perfect okay so that was so easy everything is looking really good here
again I'm just gonna let everything dry if you are looking for more cleaning
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