5 Things to Do with Denture Tablets

You’ve probably got a box of denture tablets at the back of your medicine cabinet, but this powerful cleaning agent has even more uses around the home.

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Use denture tablets to re-ignite your diamond's sparkle
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Use denture tablets to re-ignite your diamond’s sparkle

Has your diamond ring lost its sparkle? Drop a denture tablet into a glass containing a cup of water. Follow that with your ring or diamond earrings. Let it sit for a few minutes. Remove your jewelry and rinse to reveal the old sparkle and shine.

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Use denture tablets to vanish mineral deposits on glass
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Use denture tablets to vanish mineral deposits on glass

Fresh flowers often leave a ring on your glass vases that seems impossible to remove no matter how hard you scrub. Here’s the answer. Fill the vase and drop in a denture tablet. When the fizzing has stopped, all of the mineral deposits will be gone. Use the same method to clean thermos bottles, cruets, glasses, and coffee decanters.

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Use denture tablets to clean your coffeemaker
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Use denture tablets to clean your coffee maker

Hard water leaves mineral deposits in the tank of your electric drip coffee maker that not only slows the perking but also affects the taste of your brew. Denture tablets will fizz away these deposits and give the tank a bacterial clean-out too. The tablets were designed to clean and disinfect dentures, and they’ll do the same job on your coffee maker. Drop two denture tablets in the tank and fill it with water. Run the coffee maker. Discard that potful of water and follow up with one or two rinse cycles with clean water.

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Use denture tablets to clean your toilet
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Use denture tablets to clean your toilet

Looking for a way to make the toilet sparkle again? Porcelain fixtures respond to the cleaning agent in denture tablets. Here’s a solution that does the job in the twinkling of an eye. Drop a denture tablet in the bowl. Wait about 20 minutes and flush. That’s it!

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Use denture tablets to clean enamel cookware
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Use denture tablets to clean enamel cookware

Stains on enamel cookware are a natural for the denture tablet cleaning solution. Fill the pot or pan with warm water and drop in a tablet or two, depending on its size. Wait a bit—once the fizzing has stopped, your cookware will be clean.

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Originally Published in Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things

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