A mixture of lemon juice cannot be used to kill ants.
Just like vinegar, lemon juice also seems to destroy those scent trails that ants follow. Try spraying lemon juice around the places you think ants are using for entryways.
If you heat lemon juice with vinegar and salt, it can kill the grass. This is because the mixture is strongly acidic. If you pour it on the soil, the plant will suck it up through the roots, and the acidic lemon juice mixture will kill the roots causing the plant to die.
Yes
Lemon juice will not kill scabies. It will cause pain at any bite marks. Just get the real medication.
No. The water bath does not generate high enough temperatures to kill the Botulism toxin. The acidity of lemon juice does kill it.
Because it's an acid.
5 years
A common mixture to kill ants is equal parts borax and sugar. The sugar attracts the ants, while the borax acts as a slow-acting poison that will eventually eliminate the colony. Place the mixture in areas where you have seen ant activity, but keep it out of reach of pets and children.
To use borax to kill ants, mix equal parts borax and sugar to attract the ants. Place the mixture in areas where you have seen ant activity. The ants will be attracted to the sugar and take the borax back to their colony, which will eventually kill them.
Pavement ants can cause damage to brick patios by building their nests under the pavers. To kill pavement ants you can create a mixture of 1 cup boric acid to 1/2 cup sugar. Use the mixture on areas you see noticeable amounts of ants in a sparing manner. Save the remaining mixture for treatment later.
Lemon juice can inhibit some bacteria if they are sensitive to lower (acidic) pH. As lemon juice is an acid. But there are very high numbers of bacteria in lemon wedges when tested. See link below:
Really there is NO way to kill cold sores. Try lemon juice, ketchup, or even salt.