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What's better for cleaning vinegar or isopropyl alcohol?

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  • 7 months ago

    Personally I just pee in a jug and wipe any dirty thing with my urine sponge. It worked for my ancestors. 

    Reject modernity, embrace tradition.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 months ago

    I don't know what one would use to clean vinegar or alcohol

  • ?
    Lv 4
    7 months ago

    Neither.  Both over-rated. 

    Soap or detergent clean things. Alcohol (after you've cleaned) will cut away soap film.

    Vinegar (no matter what the save-the-earth types tell you) is such a weak disinfectant it's virtually useless.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 months ago

    That depends what you are cleaning, and what you are attempting to clean off it.

  • Anonymous
    8 months ago

    Alcohol. That is what the hospitals use to sterilize equipment.   Vinegar can grow mold on it.  Not so with alcohol.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 months ago

    I would suggest vinegar which has a PH of 2.5.  This is slightly acidic. Isopropyl alcohol has a ph of 8 which is slightly basic.  In certain cases, a base may clean better than the acid, but in most cases the acidic vinegar is superior.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 months ago

    prefers to use plain water with baking soda in it .

  • 8 months ago

    vinegar is much better.

  • Audrey
    Lv 7
    8 months ago

    Alcohol. Vinegar stinks up your house for a week.

  • 8 months ago

    That depends what you want to clean off what.

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