Clean Pennies With Vinegar and Salt

How About Just Salt and Vinegar for cleaning pennies?

You know…salt and vinegar…like the potato chips…

Does the baking soda really add to the cleaning process?  Maybe, from the oxidation.  But here’s my result minus the baking soda, just cleaning pennies with salt and vinegar…

pennies cleaned with salt and vinegar

Ok…maybe the baking soda did help…but I’d say just salt and vinegar still did a decent job to clean a penny or two…stay tuned for more of how to clean a penny!

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OK, time for how to clean a penny with all 3 as a super mega solution – Salt, Baking Soda and Vinegar…

baking soda vinegar and salt to clean a penny

In my last 2 posts, you’ve seen these used separately or maybe the baking soda and vinegar in combination. But we also know that salt water did OK on its own, and so is there a way that all 3 do an even better job cleaning a penny than they do by themselves of in lower combinations?

SO here are our 3 ingredients, salt, vinegar and baking soda…the controls part of this is we’re using the same exact ingredients used previously, the same brands and actual source boxes, so we don’t increase or decrease our chances for drawing the wrong conclusions…all things being equal…in other words

The results:

Here’s the bubbly picture of all 3 fizzing away to clean the pennies…

bubbling to clean a penny

Here’s the end result…I actually decided to go ahead and try to clean a bunch of pennies with the solution

Wow…all 2 in combo sure did the trick…this is amongst the best results yet as a cleaning solution for how to clean pennies and coins…a neat idea I think…stay tuned for more trials with other common household products!

13 pennies cleaned by baking soda vinegar and salt in combination

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We’ve tried baking soda by itself and we’ve tried vinegar by itself to clean a penny…

baking soda vinegar and pennies

Will combining both do a better job of cleaning a penny in light of the chemical reaction?

baking soda vinegar and clean pennies

The result is yes, cleaning pennies with both seemed to actually do better than cleaning with them separately.

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Can Vinegar Clean a Penny?

vinegar to clean a penny

Yes it can! The acid in Vinegar seems to do a a pretty good job of making a penny shiny and cleaning it up to a point.

I remember when I used Tabasco, the Vinegar and the hot sauce acids must have done the same thing. So I decided to try Vinegar by itself to clean a penny and sure enough it did the trick. Try this for yourself. Pour only a little vinegar onto the penny, wait 5 minutes, then turn it over and rub it on a cloth.

Then do the other side the same way and your penny will look clean. A quick and easy way to clean a penny. See my picture with the result of how vinegar cleans a penny.

pennies cleaned with vinegar

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Can Baking Soda By Itself Clean a Penny?

baking soda to clean a penny

You must use water of course. But Baking Soda is touted as such a great cleaner all the time, that it’s found its way into several cleaning products from carpet cleaning products to toothpaste. So if it’s such a great cleaner, shouldn’t it work on a penny?

I added the water, soaked the penny in the solution for a bit, and then I started rubbing and scrubbing the penny in the baking soda mush. The result? Some of the dirt came off and it got a bit shinier actually, but I was not too impressed. Take a look for yourself…some result but nothing that would turn into the next big penny or coin cleaner invention:

baking soda clean a penny result

I began to wonder about all that baking soda hype that started several years ago…

But what about baking soda mixed with other ingredients? I’ll save that in another how to clean a penny post.

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