Is vinegar safe to use around kids and pets?

Question

Recently we have started using vinegar to clean with instead of harmful chemicals. Because of the harsh smell someone questioned its safety to me, asking was I sure it was okay to be around my kids and my many pets. They put everything in their mouth. I said yes, though she got me paranoid and I thought I'd ask for my own reassurance.

Answer 1

I am almost positively sure that vinegar is safe around kids. Pets, I'm not sure about. I've never really thought of using it around pets, so don't trust me on this, but I think it might be.

Answer 2

Vinegar is a very weak acid, so it will clean things, it is not harmful to people or animals.

Answer 3

I am led to wonder how the smell of vinegar can be "harsher" than many household chemicals.

Yes. It is definetly safe for your kids.

I know of schools where the popcorn machines are cleaned out with vinegar and water and the kids are all happy and healthy!

Answer 4

Um...people eat vinegar.  Before it was a cleaning product, it was food.  Considering the amount of vinegar I ate on fries as a child, I'm pretty sure it's harmless.

Answer 5

Absolutely safe...it's a major ingredient in most salad dressings, mayonaise, and also it's in ketchup.  It's wonderful that something that is non-toxic can be used to wash window and also works great as a weed killer--full, undiluted strength for that job.  Then you can mix it with some herbs and oil and make some dressing.

Answer 6

apple cider viniger is, i spray it in my dogs ears and on their coat to get rid of the ticks and fleas. i also spray it on their food so that it comes out of their fur.

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Answer 7

The 3% or so,consumer ready solutions are under great assault by the cleaning industry. Just as the aluminum industry found themselves having to rid there flouride by-products as a consumer respected benefit to health, the industrial industry of even less respect,has begun a campain to promise us what will eventually kill us! Vinegar made from known ingredients is far superior  to industrial claims of perfection made from thier waste! That is the world now-what we fall for is nothing more than paying money for what should never be offerred for sale in the first place! That stuff belongs all over the a...... who thought it good to benefit upon anothers life!