Uses of 3% hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)
Refrigeration extends its shelf life. You should even be careful not to shake up the H2O2 bottle unnecessarily.
- Cleans and Kills bacteria and viruses
- safe cleaner to use around kids or anyone with respiratory problems, because it's not a lung irritant.
Let everything bubble for a few minutes, then scrub and rinse clean. - Disinfect cutting board and counter top
- Wipe out your refrigerator and dishwasher.
Soak your toothbrush
Clean kids' toys and play areas
Sanitize your kids' lunch boxes/bags
Doorknobs
Spray down the shower - Wash vegetables and fruits
- Removes dirt and pesticides.
Add 1/4 cup of hydrogen peroxide to a sink of cold water.
After washing, rinse thoroughly with cool water. - prevent wilting and preserve your salad
- Spray a solution of 1/2 cup water and 1 tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide on leftover salad, drain, cover and refrigerate.
- dishwasher
- Add 2 oz. to your regular detergent for a sanitizing boost.
Add roughly 2 ounces of 3% hydrogen peroxide to the regular dish soap bottle. - Clean your sponges
- Soak them for 10 minutes in a 50/50 mixture of hydrogen peroxide and warm water in a shallow dish. Rinse the sponges thoroughly afterward.
- Remove baked-on crud from pots and pans
- Combine hydrogen peroxide with enough baking soda to make a paste
Rub onto the dirty pan
Let it sit for a while
Use scrubby sponge and warm water to clean - Whiten bathtub grout
- Dry the tub thoroughly
Spray it liberally with hydrogen peroxide
Let it sit and bubble
Scrub with an old toothbrush.
Repeat if needed. - toilet bowl
- Pour half a cup of hydrogen peroxide into the toilet bowl
Let stand for 20 minutes
Scrub clean. - clean humidifiers and steamers
- Use 1 pint of 3% hydrogen peroxide to a gallon of water to clean.
- Wash shower curtains with hydrogen peroxide
- to remove mildew and soap scum. Place curtains in machine with a bath towel and your regular detergent.
Add 1 cup full strength 3% hydrogen peroxide to the rinse cycle. - musty smelling towels
- 1/2 cup Peroxide and 1/2 cup vinegar let stand for 15 minutes wash as normal. Gets rid of the smell.
- Remove stains from clothing, curtains, and tablecloths
- Can be used to pre-treat for stains
Fill a sink with cold water and a 2 cups of 3% hydrogen peroxide.
Soak for at least an hour, rinse in cold water.
Laundry as usual.
Add a cup of peroxide to a regular load of whites to boost brightness. - Whiten Clothes
- Add a cup of Peroxide to white clothes.
- Gets rid of blood stains on clothes and carpets
- Pour directly on the spot, let it sit for about a minute, then rub and rinse with cold water. Repeat if necessary.
- Floors
- Combine half a cup of hydrogen peroxide with one gallon of hot water.
It is safe for any floor type, and there's no need to rinse. - aquariums
- Use hydrogen peroxide to control fungi present in . Don't worry, it won't hurt your fish. Use sparingly for this purpose.
- De-skunking solution
- Combine 1 quart 3% hydrogen peroxide, 1/4 cup baking soda, 1 teaspoon Dawn dish detergent, 2 quarts warm water.
- plants to ward off fungus
- Add a little hydrogen peroxide to your spray bottle and spritz plants.
- sprout seeds for new plantings
- Use a 3% hydrogen peroxide solution once a day and spritz the seed every time you re-moisten.
- improve your plants' root system
- Use a mixture of 1 part hydrogen peroxide to 32 parts water.
- Add natural highlights to your hair
- Dilute the hydrogen peroxide so the solution is 50% peroxide and 50% water.
Spray the solution on wet hair to create subtle, natural highlights. - mouthwash
- It kills the bacteria that causes halitosis.
Use a 50/50 mixture of hydrogen peroxide and water. - brushing teeth
- Use baking soda and hydrogen peroxide to make a paste for . Helps with early stages of gingivitis as it kills bacteria. Mixed with salt and baking soda, hydrogen peroxide works as a whitening toothpaste.
- help clear skin
- Dab hydrogen peroxide on pimples or acne.
- remove ear wax
- Use a solution of 3% with olive or almond oil.
Add a couple drops of oil first then hydrogen peroxide.
After a few minutes, tilt head to remove solution and wax. - Feet
- Spray a 50/50 mixture of hydrogen peroxide and water on foot and toes every night and let dry for foot fungus.
Soaking your feet in a peroxide solution to help soften calluses and corns, and disinfect minor cuts. - Rejuvenating Detoxifying Bath
- Use about 2 quarts 3% hydrogen peroxide to a tub of warm water.
Soak at least 1/2 hour, adding hot water as needed to maintain a comfortable water temperature. - Douche:
- Add 2 cap fulls of 3% hydrogen peroxide in warm distilled water once to twice a week to remove even chronic yeast infections.
- Infections
- Soak any infections or cuts in 3% for five to ten minutes several times a day.
Even gangrene that would not heal with any medicine has been healed by soaking in hydrogen peroxide. Put half a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in your bath to help rid boils, fungus or other skin infections. - Bird Mites Infections
- Patients infected by tiny mites report that hydrogen peroxide effectively kills the mites on their skins. They spray it on their skin a couple of times (with a few minutes in between the applications) with amazing results.
- Sinus Infections
- A tablespoon of 3% hydrogen peroxide added to 1 cup of non-chlorinated water can be used as a nasal spray.