If you're an avid tea drinker, you'll probably have dealt with stains on your mugs and cups before - meaning you'll know just how much of a pain they can be to clean.
The high tannin content in tea gives the drink its unique dark colour and flavour, but it can also stain the mugs we drink it from (as well as our teeth!), leaving us spending hours scrubbing at the stain, which can often result in a damaged cup.
But before you reach for the bleach to try and banish the stains, fans of cleaning guru Mrs Hinch have shared an easier, faster and cheaper way to get your mugs clean again - using a 65p kitchen staple.
Posting on the Mrs Hinch Cleaning Tips page on Facebook, one woman asked: "There are always yellow/brown tea stains in my cups. What should I do if I can't wash them off with clean water?"
The post received over 100 comments, and many of them told the woman to use a product most of us own already, but can be bought from supermarkets for as little as 65p - table salt.
One person responded: "Rub salt on it. The stains will disappear. Wet cup first."
While another said: "Salt with a drop of hot water. Rub the salt around the cup and it comes up like new. I never use bleach for cups."
And a third wrote: "The best remedy l read somewhere on one of the sites was to use salt and hot water. Never had a problem cleaning a stained cup since l started using this method."
Someone else agreed with the other commenters and said salt even cleaned up their mugs "quicker" than bleach would, as they explained: "It works every time. I used to use the bleach technique until someone mentioned using salt. It wipes off so much quicker than bleach."
If you need to buy salt, Sainsbury's and Asda both sell theirs for 65p, while it retails in Waitrose for 70p.
To use this method, wet the inside of the cup with a little bit of water, add about a tablespoon of salt, and scrub the mug until it is clean. The salt simply acts as a mild abrasive, getting into the stains and removing them.
Just make sure to rinse your mugs afterwards thoroughly, or else your next cuppa might be a bit salty!
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