$3 DIY Weed Killer BEATS RoundUp Naturally!
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- Опубликовано: 12 май 2024
- The best homemade weed & grass killer I have made yet. Costs under $3 for 1 gallon of this safe & effective weed killer. Safe around kids & pets and takes just minutes to make. Great alternative to Round Up that's cheaper, safer & gets the job done. See my resulsts
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Wow!! The transformation you have made on the property is Amazing! Great videos and tips!
One hint, shake your jug after adding the salt but BEFORE adding the detergent. Shake gently again after adding detergent. Then you won't have as much foaming.
And add the salt first, then you can use the vinegar to rinse the salt down off the sprayer's built-in funnel.
You love watching people shake their jugs, don’t you?
Great tip!
Pro tip - Pour the vinegar and salt into a bucket and make sure the salt is totally dissolved before pouring it into your sprayer. Then add the liquid detergent to the sprayer. After you’ve sprayed the weeds, make sure to thoroughly clean out your sprayer and nozzle with clean water. I’ve been using this for years and it’s the best!
Pressurizing before mixing the detergent will also help reduce foaming.
Pro tip: if you don’t use all of it at once, remove the pump from the sprayer, or make sure the bottom of the pump where the seals are is out of the liquid. The acidity of the vinegar will mess with the rubber seals.
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@@SilverCymbal would it work as well if you weed eat it first
We've tried a zillion of these DIY formulas, and what we've stuck with is buying strong vinegar (usually 30%) and watering it down to 10-12%. We use inexpensive spray bottles rather than a pump sprayer, but I'd use it in a cheap pump sprayer. The vinegar does eventually ruin the seals even if you rinse it out. But salt will ruin a sprayer much faster, in our experience, even if you clean the thing twice after every use.
The 10-12% vinegar kills almost every weed it touches, and you don't have to saturate them so severely. Most stuff is wilted in 24 hours. It does kill the roots of most things, and the weeds don't come back during the same season. I see a lot of people saying they'll regrow in a couple of weeks, but that has not been our experience. A few really tough weeds will need a couple of applications.
Alternatively, after you spray the vinegar, spray the same plant with plain laundry bleach or with hydrogen peroxide. Do NOT mix these chemicals beforehand, and don't, what, get down and sniff the plant. You will be creating a small amount of dangerous poisons, although they won't last long. Two rounds of vinegar will usually kill small poison ivy plants, though, and one will burn the leaves off of Virginia creeper. If you're working around plants you want to keep, put some vinegar in a dish and use a paintbrush to 'paint' it onto the weeds, leaves and stems.
If you don't overdo it, you won't seriously or lastingly alter the pH of the soil, and, for instance, grass should be able to grow in the same spot you sprayed as soon as it rains or you hose the area down. The vinegar is neutralized pretty fast. Bleach breaks down pretty quickly, and peroxide even faster. Salt will linger, in our experience, and tend to keep the area dead for weeks. If the vinegar isn't working, you may have diluted it too much. Read the warnings on high-strength vinegar, though. It'll burn skin, eyes, your nose and lungs, etc. Still safer than a lot of commercial weed killers, but safety first.
Agree- grocery store vinegar is not strong enough for anything but the most fragile weeds. It may kill the top, but not the roots.
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How do you water it down to 10-12%?
@@user-dx5cv9og9hAdd 2 parts water to one part vinegar. Now you have a solution that is 1/3 vinegar and 2/3 water. Multiplying the 0.30 (30%) vinegar by 1/3 = 0.10 or 10% vinegar.
Not only burn, it could permanently blind you. I’ll stick to my regular weed b gon. Spot spraying isn’t going to hurt anything, except for the weeds.
A lot of weeds are annuals , so just getting them before they go to seed is super helpful. On disturbed soils you will see weeds take hold, but after preventing them going to seed for a few years (and possibly seeding with something desire able). You will likely get things under control. Keep in mind, There may be about 3 years worth of seeds in the soil. Also some weed seeds will germinate several times per season. Main things is don't let them go to seed.
Thank you for sharing your results. I just tried this on my flower beds this morning. Your property is beautiful!
Started my home care journey recently and I can’t express how much your videos have helped me and my understanding for various topics. Glad to see you are continuing to post!
Honestly i was just at awe with the house.
Thank you for this video as well
I just used this formula ( I litre of vinegar and 3 tablespoons each of table salt and dish soap mixed into a spray bottle) on the weeds in my patio and driveway and achieved the same results as you did. Totally satisfying and I will be keeping a bottle of this mixture on hand as part of my regular garden clean up kit. I didn't even have to go and buy anything as this formula uses ingredients that are just regular household items always on hand.
You don't need the vinegar, just salt alone (with detergent) will do it. Dissolve 360g of salt in one litre of hot water. Add an egg-cupful of detergent...that's it. Don't shake the bottle, just swirl it. Spray onto leaves - dead in two hours. It struggles on ivy, but kills almost everything else.
From a professional gardener in England.
Will it harm the soil in garden beds?
@@betarugula8886Yes
While this does kill the plants temporarily, it doesn’t actually kill the roots, it just burns the foliage. Also, if you use it a lot, due to the acidity of the vinegar you can alter the pH of your soil which can affect other established plants.
Definitely killed most of the targeted weeds in my yard and sidewalks. Admittedly for some I did lightly spray a second time.
@@dannywitz yes, but how long before the weeds were back.
Agreed. This is just burning the leaves. It gives a very quick result, but it grows back pretty quickly.
I've tried this method and was impressed at first, until they kept coming back. Roundup is slower to see an effect, but much more effective in the long-term.
@@G5rryagreed, this stuff didn’t grow a sixth finger on either of my kid’s hands. Garbage.
I think the key point here is that you need to use it enough to alter the pH of the soil in order to prevent weeds from regrowing. That means that it works best in areas where you don't want anything to grow like cracks in a driveway. It's not something I would use in the yard but it's very effective for specific uses as long as you're generous with the application
Used a similar mix on clover in a mulch bed and it never came back. I like this mix.
Yes I will for sure use this. A few thorns is growing amongst the grass. Thanks
I literally just bought salt and vinegar the other day to try this recipe before I saw this video. Thank you for the video!
I've used white household vinegar, 2 gals in sprayer with half-pint of rubbing alcohol, shot of dish soap. works just as well and it doesn't ruin your sprayer. The alcohol is an excellent dessicant. Costco has the best deals on vinegar AND rubbing alcohol in my area.
Wow. The best I've seen so far! Thank you so much!
Been using this recipe on the poison ivy on my property for a couple years. Works great!
If I only had a lawn like that ! I am definitely going to try this on the weeds. Thanks.
love it! thanks, i'll give it a try. your lawn looks amazing
This indeed works. Just make sure to run plenty of clean water through the application device before putting it away, since salt will create deposits and clog the nozzles. Constant application is of course needed, as happens with any weed killer.
I use this same mixture and get the same results. Very pleased with it
I tried this with the industrial strength of 45% vinegar. It took all of 5 minutes before the weeds turned pale yellow. The vinegar is pricey, and I'll most likely stick with the 5% in the future. A word of caution with the 45%...wear a respirator or at least double mask. Should the wind blows back any of the mist and you breathe it in, it's not a pleasant experience 😅.
I was thinking about using 30% vinegar, maybe I should rethink that idea.
@@bz3248 I would get higher than 5% strength and dilute it down to 15-20%. I tried 5% and it only temporarily burned the weeds.
But it's not toxic like Roundup, which is banned in the EU and Cali and Co ..
Your yard looks great! I also have a stone area, where weeds and grass have taken root in some areas, and tbh, I wasn't sure how to tackle this. I was going to buy a torch this spring, and still might because of the grass. At least you are giving me another option, so thank you!
This worked like a charm! The weeds started browning in 5-7 hours and we’re completely dead the next day!
I have used vinegar to contain a spreading ginger . I didn't want to kill the plants , just the new shoots outside the bed. It did work to a degree ,but it was constant. So I resorted to weed matting which worked better. Hand weeding or a longhandled weed chipper is all you can do if you don't want to use glyphosate, which is harmless and works well. All we have to worry about is its overuse and evolving weeds with resistance
Thank you for finally making this video. Your influence is far-reaching, and the less roundup used and leaching into our waterways, the better.
Your Domain is absolutely beautiful.And thank you for the info.
Hi, Great mix. I shall definitely be trying your week killing solution. Cheers, Terry from the UK 🇬🇧
Tip: use industrial strength vinegar (found in most big box stores). it’s a bit more expensive but works much faster.
Thanks to Biden/Kamala's inflation, that same mix is now $26.
I just saw the vinegar you mentioned at HD, it was right at the entrance- I'll go back and get some, I have poison ivy, I hope it'll kill it
I need to try this
By a bit more expensive you mean 10x. 30% vinegar can go for as much as 30 bucks a gallon.
@@kladewilson598 Yes indeed, it's quite pricy, I ended up just pulling it with gloves and plastic bags
My neighbor has said he's gonna do this for a while. I'm a painter and have a few gallons of vinegar around that I used to use for deck cleaning. Now I have a better use for them.
You have an absolutely beautiful home and land. I'm praying that one day I can have a home like that.
Use cleaning strength vinegar instead of the 5%. Warm up the vinegar before you add salt it will dissolve it, I use Epsom salt and I use DAWN for the binder.
We had Scotch Thistles growing on our model flying field. So tough. I tried incinerating them with an LPG torch (scorched earth!) but they just grew back, even with repeated application. I used strong Roundup without success. What absolutely worked was spraying the leaves with unleaded petrol using a pressure pump sprayer.
I've used fuel oil. it unlived everything for the entire season and into the next.
I use it in the backyard as i don't like using poisonous chemicals because of the kids and the dogs.
It works great, but you have to reapply every few weeks which is a small tradeoff for being safe for them.
Don't know how effective it will be against weeds in this area but I do like the inexpensive cost and the safety of not using harmful chemicals.
Where I live you can buy 12% and even 24% white spirit vinegar for food use (designed to be diluted). I've used that stuff - even if you just pour it neat over weeds, the weeds are goners. I don't think the salt is really necessary. I had a shaded bit of pavement that was covered in moss - there I just mixed vinegar, water to dilute slightly and a touch of dish soap and absolutely soaked that wet moss in it. It penetrated perfectly and 2 days later it was stone dead and power washing it off was effortless, the dead moss doesn't grip the asphalt the way live moss does. The issue is that if there's acid left on the surface and it starts to rain, the acidic water can get washed onto the grass or similar, the edge of my lawn next to that bit of pavement got singed a bit around the edges. Worth it, but it's something to keep in mind, the product might not stay put.
Funny I did this a week ago. Costco had the best price on vinegar, misc dish soap but I had Epsom salt that I had no need for. It worked great! I found that Lowe’s had the best deal and a better design on their 2 gallon sprayer. Note you want to get a bigger sprayer than you need for more compressed air space.
Ryobi has a sprayer that frequently goes on sale for under a hundred bucks. Totally worth the cost of admission to not have to pump the sprayers a thousand times over the summer.
Epson salt is the wrong kind for this. It actually acts as a fertilizer and is good for the garden. You need kitchen salt NaCl...or rock salt.
Thanks for the info. What a lovely property you have 🤩
I use a mix of 35/75% vinegar and soap. Though the salt would be a good addition but those do pretty well
This thing also works well on ground elder, at least I used it on young plants. Never grew back so far.
I use this, it's okay. I call it "weed discourager". Doesn't last long if there's lots of rain. Roundup etc. worked much better but I gave that up to get away from the harsh chemicals.
You bring up a great point. I spray this in areas that I don't want to have to mow, but I also don't want to turn to dirt or mud. Things die to the point where you don't have to mow too much, but they don't get nuked either. I have a long strip of chainlink that I use this on. I've never had to replant any grass in that area so I know it's not killing anything, but it does prevent me from having to do any weedwacking along the fence for most of the season. A perfect balance in my opinion.
Even Roundup kills the tops for about 2-3 weeks, and then weeds come back from the roots.
Definitely I'm going to try this i need to get a pump because I get a lot of weeds and the sun will have to be shining thanks I will let you know how it works. Thanks again
Hey Silver! My order of Tenacity just arrived! It’s getting into lawn care season in southern PA so I’m going to dethatch aerate and overseed this weekend. Should I apply Tenacity now or wait till after I do the renovation work?
Roundup Pro concentrate can be mixed for about $3.67 a gallon. I spray it in 40 gallon batches. I guess your solution is OK if you have a driveway to spray assuming it works, but it isn't practical or efficient in large batches. "Yes. Is this Food Lion? Yes, I'd like to get 40 gallons of white vinegar and 2 50# bags of salt, and 5 gallons or Dawn liquid, please?" Good luck with that. It takes 120 gallons to spray around my property, BTW. If I had to buy that pre-mix crap at Lowe's that you're comparing this to, I'd go broke trying to keep it all sprayed. There are better choices. That are designed for the purpose. And designed for it.
Better choices when you have kids? That’s one of the main reasons he posted the video.
I use spectracide concentrate. Think I will stick with it. The location was beautiful!
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A lot of golf courses here are moving to salt-tolerant paspalum turf and weeding with pure salt or high salinity solutions like this.
The nice thing is the remaining solution can be kept for a long time. However, would keep it away from anything vinegar can disolve like caulking, spray foam, etc. Does not kill weeds with long or large root structures, but should burn away their leaves. Also do not spray on grass you want to keep.
Been there, done that. Yes, this will work, but you need to completely and thoroughly wash our whatever sprayer you use. The vinegar will totally destroy most (all) sprayers if you leave it sitting in the sprayer. Repeat: DO NOT STORE THE SOLUTION IN THE SPRAYER. It will destroy it.
And salt will destroy any metal parts of the sprayer.
Ive used concentrated vinegar on weeds before and they come back after a month or two. I'm definitely trying this out with the soap and salt, hopefully it lasts!
They still will comeback.
I believe that you've mentioned the different acidity levels of vinegar in another video. I use this same formula, but with 45% acidity vinegar (30% would probably be enough) to kill my neighbor's poison ivy and within 24 hours it is dead and I remove it. Unfortunately the roots are inaccessible so I have to do it every year, but it works great. I did spill some on some grass once and yep, it was dead for a few months. It smells like salad dressing when you apply it, but the smell goes away. Thanks for the great videos! 👍
Salad dressing is nice though 😂😋 Thanks for your input also with tips and results! ❤
Try to not remove the expired plant until natural forces do so. You might not be allowing enough time for the toxins to reach the roots.
Just did this around my fence line, even lightly sprayed trying to be conservative and the results were awesome! It even rained later the same night after I'd sprayed the weeds, two days later and %80 of the weeds and grass along the fence were dry and crispy.
That was way more than a tablespoon of dish soap that you added in the video.
Thanks for the cool weeding tip!
I was going to mention this and ask how much to really add!
I've been experimenting with this formula the original works well to kill smaller grasses but if you're looking to kill large ferns or small trees I found that
1 gallon vinegar
1 lb salt
one entire Dawn powerwash refill bottle
This formula Seems to work much better for the larger more tougher plants the dawn powerwash seems to stick better to the leaves then the standard dish soap and the extra salt seems to kill the larger plants more quickly
We have a problem with poison ivy and some other vines infesting most of our tree line.
I don't like spraying chemicals like a maniac so I've been cutting them then brushing on concentrated Roundup or spectracide on the cut end. It's a little more labor-intensive but a lot more targeted.
I tried that but the poison ivy still grows back. I've been unable to get to it, this year, and have a bumper crop of the stuff.
you can also use any detergent, not necessarily foaming soap, as it breaks down the waxy leaf cuticle/cell membranes. and enables the mixture to wet the leaves and stick more effectively. You do not need salt if you buy commercial grade stronger acetic acid (vinegar). The salt will build up over time and make the ground less fertile with many repetitions.
I guess that’s a good reason to use salt in the driveway application then? Good point.
@@default9740 Good Point
I've tried this in the past. I found that it killed the top of the plant, but not necessarily the roots. So the weeds came back in a month or 2 in the exact same location.
That’s exactly the same action as the Monsanto crap.
Yes, true, but when you've made three applications, the root is deprived of energy, and dies. Use salt alone - no need of vinegar, and just spray the leaves.
My backyard is 25x25 and mostly weeds/dirt. I’ve been wanting to start over with a clean slate, I think I’m going to spray the whole yard with this and then put down some grass seed a week or two later after it washes away
Probably much cheaper to just do groundclear concentrate
Yep, been using this formula for years!
I used rinse aid as surfactant, it did very well.
Definitely trying this...
I have tried this, along with a similar commercial version and found that it requires direct sunlight to work. In fact on my north facing bed you see exactly where the sun was shaded by the corner of my house, there was a crisp line of demarcation on several plants, half brown, half healthy. Without the direct sun to dry it out, it does not work.
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That is very good to know. Thankyou very much for sharing that information.
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my solution for driveway weeds is HOT Vinegar I boil it in my kettle and pour it on the weeds and the weeds die almost instantly. a couple hours later they're nice and crispy. I also use 10% cleaning vinegar but regular vinegar works just fine.
Glyphosate (ingredient in round up) requires less yearly applications than Acetic acid (ingredient in vinegar). Also, you're going to want a stronger percentage Acetic acid than what's in basic white vinegar.
Local big box (the orange one) has 30% vinegar in the cleaning supplies aisle.
- 2 cups instead of the entire bottle
- same salt
- Dawn dish soap (however, from another comment here, I think I may try vegetable oil to avoid the suds of shaking soap to mix.
I dilute it down to about 20% with some extra water. Interesting comment about the oil. Good idea I think
@@richcaseaxon I have a 1 gallon sprayer. So, 2 cups to 14 cups water should be 1/8th of 30%, or 3.75%. His 1 to 1 in theory would take his 5% down to 2.5%
Mine isn’t nearly as strong as yours, but another half stronger than what he shows here.
If it stops raining here, I’ll test the oil and see how it works out.
Oil won’t mix with the solution so you’ll end up spraying vinegar, salt mixture and then oil. Oil on the plant will actually cause the mixture to repel rather than stick to the leaves.
@@todwarner9207 thank you for this
This is a very old formula both of my grandfathers used it to clear off flag stones on footpaths & down drive ways it is even effective without the vinegar, the detergent acts to break the surface tension, I've added detergent to commercial weed-killer in the past to reduce the amount needed, or increase the dilution rate to get the same effect as full strength weed-killer.
What about rock salt I know it kills grass! Or just pour table salt on weeds
@@m42037 It would work but would take longer, when the salt in a water/soap base the weeds will take it up quicker.
I usually just use vinegar. I'll try this next time and see. Thanks !
For anything in the lawn do you still recommend Tenacity?
First , love your content.
But you can mix 6% concentrate chelated Iron at 10-12oz/32oz spray bottle with water and a bit of surfactant.
It will kill weeds in hours(tested) and not harm grass.
Iron is a necessary nutrient for plants, how does this not enhance weed growth?
@DSCuber Grasses will only take in what it needs, weeds don't have that limit and basically overdose on the Fe.
FYI, this doesn't work well on grassy weeds like sedges, just broadleaf and bitter crest types.
Like this solution. I have done this with my sprayer and found the salt clogged up the sprayer - small sprayer and large one. Any suggestions?
I just bought to 30% vinegar. Thanks for the new recipe.
I’ve tried this the past couple years spraying it on my ditch. Similar results as you had. Works great on some weeds and others seem to just laugh at it. Those ones you have to spray multiple times and soak them. In the end, it’s cheaper to just buy the spectracide concentrate that makes 6-8 gallons for $14. It will kill everything on the first application. Just don’t let your pets near it until after it has dried
I think he's recommending it because it's safe, cheap and effective .
Because it’s natural too.
I’m trying it out today. I don’t like spraying roundup or other chemicals because my dog is always sniffing around and my son touches everything!
A recomend a suggestion use cleaning vineger 10% also use a high degreaser to break wax on some plants. Also try adding twenty mule train soap (borax)
Thanks very much for that bro. I bought 1 litre of Westminster weed killer for $10 last year, and this year it costed me $28. A huge jump which I thought was ridiculous!
That was great thanks again brother
This solution works well. Try the 30% "horticultural" vinegar. Smells a bit stronger. Protect your eyes and hands and stay out of the mist, keep upwind.
This could raise the ph in your soil. I do use it on my gravel paths. When the weeds decompose in the garden the salt and vinegar go into the soil. After a few applications a soil test would be a good idea. Salt and vinegar are also harmful to microbes, worked and fungi.
Here's the fourth ingredient to increase effectiveness. First, mow or weed whack as low as possible. Then wait several days until an inch or two regrowth is seen. THEN spray. This will weaken the plant and cause it to use up carbohydrates from the roots. Results will be even better.
I would recommend using 8% vinegar and shake it with just vinegar to dissolve the salt before adding soap.
I've tried this. It doesn't kill the roots and the weeds come back. It's good for the short-term, but not for the long-term.
Thanks for this. I'm trying to avoid Roundup to minimize im impact on the water table. Vinegar and salt is much easier to treat than roundup.
Your desire to avoid impacting the water table is fine, but avoid Roundup to stop giving Monsanto/Bayer money......they are a truly evil company and one of the ones responsible for the absolutely horrid US food supply. Also how they aggressively prosecute farmers is horrible.
Tried this myself and can confirm that it works.
I was about to go buy some roundup to use on come poison ivy near my home, but I'll give this a shot first. If it works, that will be great.
great video! have you ever tried the industrial strength vinegar? ive heard it works even better but im yet to try it
@@TNT-ml1llhaha that’s great to hear 😂
@@TNT-ml1llthank you so much my friend!
I have used garden vinigare before and salt on stoneplatesgaps , but think I will try this by add salt to the vinigar
Used this last year it did kill weeds BUT it also killed the grass left a mess in the yard. It does get rid of the weeds by the same day.
This makes the greens/leafs wither, but the root system survives and most weeds will sprout and come back. It is a temporary effect.
If repeated for a long time, it might emaciate and thus kill the weeds. But it is a tedious process with no guarantees.
Vinegar affects the soil, making it more acidic, so be careful with where you use it.
Roundup/glyphosate have its uses.
I'd love to see this compared ot crossbow. I've always used that brand, and never switched and have always wondered if there's something better out there. They were out of stock this spring, so I bought a different brand and it didn't work.
Crossbow has become my go to remedy as well, haven’t had near as much luck yet with the vinegar method but may try a concentrated vinegar next time…its just a lot more expensive.
i got a bunch of weeds, and vines overgrowing my fence and house. Will this take care of the mess or would I need something stronger?
I've been using this for 2 years now, game changer
I'm gonna try this on some blackberry bushes that have been relentless and some ivy that's slowly killing some trees in my yard.
I found out by accident that veggie oil works great. I was oiling up and seasoning a new charcoal grill with cast iron grates. The excess oil found its way out onto the grass below. The bright sun on that oil burned that spot to a crisp. Maybe not the best method but it sure worked well 😂
Interesting. I wonder if the oil suffocated the grass.
@@milesparris4045 that could be part of it but i think the main effect was the sun being magnified by the oil, in turn burning the grass. Much like someone applying baby oil or something to get a darker tan. It acts like a magnifying glass.
Probably suffocating, any "lens" effect of liquid drops on foliage has been debunked.
What type of veggie oil?
@@markm8188 just some generic vegetable oil from the grocery store
That "1 Tbsp of soap" looked more like 1/4 cup. But you cut away a couple times, so maybe you didn't use all of what was in the soap bottle when you started.
Good formula though, I'll definitely be trying this myself!
When mixing weed killer, its normal to use up to 1/2 oz per gallon. Thats common within the grass community. 1/2oz = 1TableSpoon. The soap allows the product to penetrate the leaf tissue and not get repelled like rainx for example.
Thank you for making this video! I'm a bit afraid to use this for weeds, we got a lot on our gravel driveways.. but we have our own drilled well.. Could it affect our drinking water? I'm sure you don't know the whole thing here, you're not a scientist - I am not as well, but what are you thoughts on it?
No negativity in any way, but I feel that.. what should I do? We also got a lot in our lawn and as you say, this shouldn't be sprayed on the lawn..
I just spent $25 on a broadleaf weed killer. Thank you for verifying that a DIY product can not only be cheaper but very effective.
Don't throw away the good stuff just yet. :-)
I've tried the regular household with more than a cup of salt... too weak..the cleaning vinegar at 30%, now THAT is good stuff.