Vinegar is more than just a salad dressing. It is incredibly versatile and can be used for a wide variety of applications from vinaigrette to all purpose household cleaners. In response to several questions I’ve received over the past few months, I wanted to share a few of the more interesting uses for vinegar that [...]
Call me a prude, but the smell of most commercial household cleaners gives me a massive headache. Obviously I’m not the only person with homemade cleaning products on the brain because the blog post containing my recipe for homemade laundry detergent powder is the most-visited page on this site. Then in November of last year, [...]
When you love to garden and routinely have your hands in the soil, grime and God knows what else, you tend to think a lot about getting clean – at least I do. Lately I have been thinking more about the idea of clean and what it means. Of particular interest is the concept of [...]
Making your own laundry detergent at home is not only simple, it is a great way to reduce the amount of phosphates and other harsh chemicals we are adding to the environment every time we wash a load of clothes.