How To Clean Antique Glass Bottles

Fill the bottle with water and add a false teeth cleaner such as Polident.

How to clean antique glass bottles. Soak them in warm soapy water. Fine grained sand. Fill the bottle with a solution of 1 part bleach to 7 parts water and allow it to set for at least 12 hours.

But for jars or bottles with smaller openings you have to really work to get the inside all the way clean. No fancy chemicals or detergents and barely any elbow grease. To safely clean old antique glass and vintage bottles without paper labels found in the dirt heres what you do -- but remember always handle these old bottles carefully looking for any chips and cracks in the glass or parts of broken metal lids that could be dangerous.

In the beginning I started bottle collecting in the s and like many other diggers continually. Rinse the affected glass item off or rinse it out if it is a vessel of some sort such as a vase or bottle. To clean the interior of a narrow vase use an oxygen cleanser or try equal parts baking soda vinegar and salt.

Glass bottles can replace water bottles in your home and be reused an endless amount of times which saves you money in the long haul. It cannot effectively remove frost from cutting on medium to hard glass. The second bucket has water with dissolved sodium bicarb baking soda.

Wed like to suggest the simplest thing first just soak your antique bottle in water with some detergent for a few good hours or maybe overnight. Extra fine steel wool OOOO can be used with caution. If the mouth of the glass was large enough I washed the inside with a rag bottle brush too.

Run for 4-5 days. Some people get grossed out at the thought of reusing glass bottles but dont worry. When done remove bottle and wash the bottle tube and copper.