This Morning expert reveals the perfect 10p home cleansing hacks

Why use toxic chemicals in a kettle you employ to make drinks when far cheaper, natural products do a greater job? Removing limescale build-up monthly out of your kettle, especially in hard water areas, makes your tea taste higher and prolongs the lifetime of your kettle.

Half-fill the kettle with water, add 20ml of white vinegar and boil. Leave for half-hour then rinse. To descale the spout, spray kitchen roll with white vinegar, mould it across the spout and leave it half an hour.

Remove rust with ketchup

Ketchup is great for eliminating rust – an affordable brand will do, nothing fancy. I first tried it on a 2p coin, which got here up like recent. The sauce’s acidic properties cut through stubborn rust on bar stools, heated towel rails and garden furniture.

Rub it into the rust patch with an old toothbrush, leave it to work for quarter-hour, then take it off with a moist microfibre cloth and buff up.

Clean the BBQ with an onion

Cleansing the grill often puts people off having a BBQ – but this tip, from my nan Val, makes the job easy. Cut an onion in half and while the BBQ continues to be warm after cooking, pop the onion on a cooking fork and rub over the grill plates.

The onion will slowly disintegrate but will remove all of the grease and dirt. Onions have antiseptic properties so that they make a perfect BBQ cleaner. The onion smell doesn’t last long.

Remove baked-on food with teabags

Certainly one of my favourite suggestions from my nan Shirley is the right way to remove baked-on food from dishes. Fill the dish with hot water and add a used teabag – then leave to soak when you are eating your dinner.

By the tip of the meal, the tannins within the tea could have fought through the grease and the food will come off the dish easily.

Descale the sink with lemons

Great for stainless-steel sinks and chrome taps. Cut a lemon in half and dip the juicy side into half a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda, simply to cover it. Give the lemon a tiny squeeze so it starts to fizz.

Rub it on the limescale and across the tap, then leave for half-hour. Rinse with a microfibre cloth and buff dry. Chemical limescale removers aren’t only expensive and toxic, they’re also abrasive and might damage surfaces.

Pop a tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda down the plughole, let it fizz after which flush with boiling water to blast dirt and take away any odours. If there’s a blockage the water will bubble up first after which unblock.

May also be used to refresh drains and absorb any odours. The leading product in the marketplace costs £3.50 and is so powerful you wish all windows open and the door shut. A box of bicarb costs about £1 and can last ages.

Clean your toothbrush with denture tablets

Your mouth is filled with bacteria – and your toothbrush probably has more bacteria than your loo seat!

Every other week, soak your toothbrush in hot water with a denture tablet for an hour and watch all of the bits float out. You may get 30 tablets for about £1.