So I recently got on Pinterest, which is a bit crazy with how trendy it is with the DIY community from what I can tell. This post isn't about Pinterest but a quick life hack I found whilst scrolling that stuck with me so hard I had to act on it immediately, by saving my citrus peels instead of composting them. The hack was to steep them in a jar in plain vinegar for a few weeks, resulting in the glowing product shown above. Yesterday I harvested my first batch of the stuff and I'm already hooked, truth be told.

It smells more like oranges than vinegar. I was considering starting to make my own citrus oil cleanser anyways, this is a great much cheaper shortcut to a likely better product. If you use citrus and have peels around, start collecting them in the fridge in a bag or a jar. I like a jar because I can just fill to the top with regular white vinegar when it seems "full enough".

Here we have two new batches already started. I've always had a love for vinegar for cleaning just about everything since I was a kid and this takes it to another level without much work and it actually saves money.

I left it for 2 weeks but it can go for realistically as long as you want. If you use good tasting vinegar you can use this in cooking too as a citrus infused vinegar. I'll likely do that with my next batch, the first batch went straight into my vinegar cleaning spray bottle.