Dust, like taxes, is one of life's inevitabilities, but luckily, there are tricks to reduce the dust bunnies gathering in your home.
A cleaning devotee on TikTok shared a brilliant cleaning hack to reduce dust buildup with one unusual ingredient: baby oil.
Manjeet is a UK-based TikToker known on the video app as @mrsjohalshome where this particular cleaning tip has been viewed over 100,000 times, as reported by The Mirror.
Cleaning TikTok videos, also known as #cleantok, are a popular genre of the video social networking app that has an estimated one billion users.
In the video, Manjeet shares her favourite uses for baby oil around the home, like buffing her refrigerator and giving her leather jacket a nice shine.
As she demonstrated its uses, she advised people to use it on your fridge freezer, following the natural gain.
The next tip shows her polishing a tabletop and candle holders with text on the video saying: "Use on chrome surfaces to give it an extra shine."
While in her third demonstration, she wrote: "Buff into leather for a shine."
Baby oil also is a great cleaner for stainless steel as it can help to make it shiny, if it’s buffed into the surface in circular motions.
To ensure that the surface isn’t sticky, remove excess oil by going back over it with a microfibre cloth or kitchen towel.
What’s more, you can pick up baby oil in most high street retailers from just £1.50.
Since being posted, the video has racked up almost 2,000 likes and dozens of comments from divided viewers.
While some were impressed by the hack, others had a few questions.
One person said: "Never thought to use baby oil. You have a beautiful home by the way."
Another asked whether you could use the oil to clean windows as well, but Manjeet recommended not to as it would smear. Instead, she suggested using Fairy washing up liquid and water.
A third wrote: "It’s all fine and dandy doing this but doesn’t it make your surface greasy?" to which Manjeet replied, saying: “No hun not at all I use the smallest drop.”
"I use it on my bathroom radiator, gives it a lovely shine," revealed someone else.
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