A Pinteresting Wednesday: The Power of Dawn

Today for my A Pinteresting Wednesday I decided to go to my "tips, tricks, good to know" board. There were a couple of DIY cleaning tips that I wanted to try.

I was probably drawn to the first tip because my favorite white shirt was only wearable if I put a jacket or sweater over it. The super embarrassing and yucky underarms made me sad. Was I ever going to be able to wear my oh-so-lovely summer shirt again?

When I remembered that I had pinned a way to fix that underarm yellow stain I kind of jumped up for joy.

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The idea seemed easy enough. Could it really fix my shirt?

I know it is hard to see the yellow, but trust

me it is there. It was super gross.

All I needed to do was mix 1 part Dawn liquid dish detergent to 2 parts hydrogen peroxide. Then I added some baking soda.

After I combined the cleaning mixture, I took a laundry scrub brush and really let those stains have it.

I will tell you what, even right after I scrubbed them I could tell a difference.

Then once I washed and dried my shirt, I was sold. My shirt was so sparkling clean. Buh-bye ugly yellow underarms.

Now it can be safely worn all by itself with no shame to me. Yipee!

Now Dawn seems to have even more magical qualities. I also came across this pin to clean jewelry.

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With a simple mixture of only a couple ingredients, it claims to clean pretty much any of your nice jewelry.

I will let you in on a secret...

I don't own nice jewelry. I pretty much stick to jewelry from forever21, target, hand-me-downs, and so on.

The nicest thing I own is, and probably will always be, my wedding ring. I am just not a fancy girl. Besides my ring, jewelry does not float my boat.

Now because this jewelry is also something I wear 24/7 it is pretty gosh darn filthy. I thought I owed it to my one piece of sparkly to clean it.

So I used this DIY jewelry cleaning solution. Just looky what it did...

 Pretty awesome, right?

I thought so, AND it was super easy.

Dawn was involved again.

1. Heat 1 cup of water for 2 minutes in the microwave.

2. Prepare 1 TBS salt, 1 TBS Dawn, and 1 TBS baking soda

3. Put a little piece of aluminum foil in the bottom of the hot water

4. Add the salt, Dawn, and baking soda

5. Immerse the ring and let it set for 10-15 minutes

6. Remove jewelry from the mixture, rinse off with cold water. Then 

gently wipe off with a soft rag.

BAM. Clean and sparkly jewelry once again.

Who knew Dawn was so extra awesome? I certainly did not.

Here are some other Dawn DIY tricks that I found and thought I would share:

DIY Dawn Shower Cleaner

DIY Ice Packs

DIY Window Wash

Gardner's Hand Scrub

Go check out the power of Dawn for yourself!

Thought I would mention that Dawn is not paying me to sing their 

praises. I am doing this of my own little free will. In fact,

 I would wager a bet that Dawn doesn't even know my name. 

Lucky for me though, I know theirs!