My grandmother taught me this trick to clean yellowed plastic fan blades before the heat wave hits with 0 effort. Here’s how it works

to remove the blades, soak the blades in a brightening bath, then wipe them clean with almost no scrubbing. For white or off-white plastic, she liked a mix of warm water, a squirt of dish soap, and hydrogen peroxide. On especially dingy blades, she would set the soaking tub near a sunny window for 1 to 3 hours, because gentle warmth and light seemed to help the whitening along.

What I love about this method is that the soaking does the heavy lifting. Instead of rubbing each blade for 15