[header] How to clean the steam iron and its base plate [title] Mix one half cup of water and one half cup of distilled white vinegar. [step] Making a vinegar-based cleaning solution that can disinfect, descale, and deodorize is an economic way to clean inside of your iron. This is also the easiest way to clean parts of the iron that are otherwise unreachable. 
[title] Fill the water reservoir of the iron with the cleaning solution, and turn the iron on to heat. [step] Set the iron on its hottest setting.