Being a do-it-yourself sort of fellow, he didn’t use a single paper towel or commercial cleaning product to clean windows.

Instead, he mixed 2 cups of hot water with 1/4 cup of vinegar and a tablespoon of cornstarch.

“The vinergar gets anything off the window,” he beamed, proud of his homemade window cleaner.

“But it’s that little bit of cornstarch that really gives it the shine!”

After shaking the solution up in a spray bottle, and spritzing the windows, we wiped them down with crumpled newspaper.

Unlike paper or cloth towels, newspaper is absorbent without leaving leaving lint behind.

Those windows sparkled in spectacular fashion.

Sources have confirmed that vinegar, when mixed with water, holds the ability to degrease, and break down dirt. Therefore giving a freak-clean shine on your windows.

But adding a pinch of cornstarch is just a perfect element to add because of its absorbent nature on dirt, oil, moisture, and germs.

This formula has been used in not only cleaning your windows professionally, but also remove grease from clothes, polish silver, but deodorise stinky shoes.

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