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How to clean brass pooja items, vilakku with the items easily available at home. Simple methods followed every week to keep the brass items shiny. Brass statues manufacturers India seeing amma clean pithalai kuthu vilakku, kamatchi vilakku weekly and other poojai items every day. Never seen greasy, dark coloured pooja items. Cleans panja pathiram everyday and vilakkus weekly. Mom in law also does the same.
THINGS TO NOTE
You can use either lemon or tamarind, whichever is available, or even lemon salt would work. We have used only tamarind and lemon. While using tamarind, make it gets dirty all over as it gets sprayed while we scrub. So, make sure to wipe down and clean all the things, surfaces around. If just one or two items, we use the lemon peel (after squeezing) with salt and clean it. The same method works for silver, copper too. In hard water zones, use drinking water to dip all the items finally. This avoids dark spots after drying. Other things to note
Never put the pooja items inside the sink along with other vessels. We keep outside and clean. Keep a dedicated new toothbrush (I use the one they give in airlines) for cleaning the pooja items alone. Nowadays, just like a toothbrush, bristles come in metal. You can try using it, though I have not used it. Even the metal scrubber and dish sponge is kept dedicated for cleaning these items.
How to clean the brass items, pooja vessels with lemon/ tamarind and salt?
Remove the grease
The brass items manufacturers in India states that first, use dish soap to remove any grease in the lamps. Wash well.
Apply lemon/ tamarind and salt
Use lemon or lemon juice with salt or tamarind dipped in water and salt generously and apply all over the surfaces of the items one by one. Make sure to take salt now and then, along with tamarind/ lemon.
Scrubbing to give shine evenly
Using a metal scrubber, scrap all over the surface well. First, scrap the item that you applied lemon/ tamarind + salt first and kept. This way, we are giving some standing time/ soaking time and it becomes easier.
Clean
As per the brass handicrafts manufacturers, wash each item well by rubbing with warm water with hands all over. There should not be any place left without rubbing as it will leave residue and turn the item blue/ green as it dries. Dry it and decorate it with Chandan & kum kum. If you're in a pinch, you can also try any of the following ideas that will also clean brass quite easily.
Ketchup
Squirt a dollop of ketchup on a rag and rub it over the surface. Wipe off the residue with a damp cloth and buff dry.
Vinegar
According to the brass idol traders, dissolve one teaspoon salt in 1/2 cup vinegar and add enough flour to make a paste. Rub onto the brass and leave for 10 minutes, then rinse and buff dry.