To protect ourselves and our family from possible allergies, we learn to get rid of book dust.
The future belongs to e-books, while the present is the precious family libraries collected by several generations. Yes, this is a visiting card of your house, which speaks of the intelligence of the owners, but it can make a proper impression only if the books are not covered with a layer of dust.
Book dust is one of the most common allergens today (along with house mites). Allergy symptoms resemble ARVI or ARI: obsessive runny nose, lacrimation, sore throat. Therefore, the doctor may mistakenly prescribe medications for colds that will not bring relief. The peculiarity of allergies is that its symptoms can appear once for an apparently incomprehensible reason, or they can recur from year to year. The most severe forms of this disease are allergic bronchial asthma, anaphylactic shock, allergic lesions of the digestive tract and other internal organs.
To avoid this kind of trouble, you need to keep your books clean.
It is best if they will be stored in a closed bookcase, behind glass.
Enemies of Books:
- direct sunlight
- dampness,
- excessively dry air.
Even so, books and bookshelves should be vacuumed at least twice a year. You can also use a dry, clean cloth for this: carefully remove all books from the shelves, wipe the cabinet from the inside and dust off the binding and spine.
Our recipes will help remove stains:
- Ink stains on the binding and pages of books are removed with hydrogen peroxide.
- Finger stains are lightly rubbed with soap, then wiped with a clean, damp rag.
- An accidentally wet page can be sprinkled with talcum powder, then put the book under a press until it dries. Another way is to place the wet page between two white sheets of paper and dry by ironing. They use the same method to smooth out a crumpled page (it must first be wetted).
- Fresh grease stains are removed by ironing the cover or page of a book with a hot iron through several layers of paper towels, replacing them until the stain disappears.
- Old grease stains come off when rubbed with a crumb of fresh white bread.
- Oil stains are sprinkled with dry chalk, tooth powder, white clay powder, then covered with clean paper and ironed with a hot iron. After that, the powder is shaken off.
- The mold is removed with ammonia.
- Fly marks can be wiped off with vinegar.