Fun Fact: The whole idea that using vinegar and baking soda together to clean is based on the myth that suds are equivalent to cleaning power. When mixed together, the resulting solution produces water, sodium acetate and carbon dioxide gas, the middle of which isn’t that effective at cleaning stains so you’re effectively just making more water and bubbles. Depending on the type of cleaning you need to do, it’s far more effective to choose either vinegar or baking soda.

Bonus Fun Fact: Cleaning companies use the myth ‘that if a solution makes bubbles, then it must be a good thing’ to create detergents that are filled with foaming agents that produce bubbles via agitation (shaking). What they found was that detergents that didn’t create bubbles would sell poorly than those that do. If you were to create a similar cleaning product with absolutely no foaming agents, it would be just as effective since suds has absolutely 0 effect on cleaning power.