Light and Lemony Dusting Cloth - How-To

by Annie B. Bond

How wonderful to make your furniture look as clean and the wood as resonant as possible. This simple-to-make formula will give your home a lovely lemon fragrance --lemon is known to lift the spirits -- while the acid in lemon juice works particularly well to pull dirt right out of the wood, leaving your furniture truly clean. These fun to use lemony dusting cloths make dusting a pleasure.

These fresh and clean smelling dusting clothes are great for your wood furniture.

SIMPLE SOLUTION:  INGREDIENTS

2 or 3 tablespoons lemon juice
a few drops food-grade linseed oil or jojoba oil

Place the lemon juice in a bowl, add a few drops of the oil, and saturate dusting cloth with the liquid. Use the cloth to dust with.

HELPFUL HINTS:  Linseed oil is the first choice for furniture oil because it dries completely over time. Its nutlike fragrance is an added plus. Jojoba is actually not an oil but a liquid wax, and it never goes rancid, so it also makes a great choice.

Use old, worn out wool socks or pieces of ragged wool sweaters as dustcloths, since wool makes beneficial static that practically makes the dust fly up off your furniture.