Dirty iron, the laundry method to clean it from top to bottom: it comes back as good as new

The first housewife trick.
A trick used by many housewives is to use baking paper and coarse salt. As strange as it may seem, these two elements together are miraculous. There are a few very simple steps to follow, which will allow you to have a brand new iron in just a few steps.

Take a sheet of baking paper, place it on the table, sprinkle coarse salt over it, covering it completely and evenly. Then, turn on the iron, wait for it to get really hot, pass it over the sheet of paper and then over the salt as if you were ironing. Press firmly.

You can see at a glance how quickly dirt and limescale stains disappear , so your iron is ready to use without the risk of damaging your clothes.

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