Doing the laundry, naturally!
“The laundry room is highly toxic, containing chemical perfumes in the laundry detergent and especially the dryer sheets. Dryer sheets coat all your clothes with a layer of toxic chemicals. When you wear those clothes, your body moisture causes those chemicals to come into contact with your skin and be absorbed directly into your bloodstream. It’s an easy way to poison your system with cancer-causing chemicals.” Natural News Yep, that stuff is just nasty. Think how many chemicals that might be...
Read MoreWashing your dishes, naturally!
Whether you have an electric dishwasher or a human dishwasher, the dishes still need to be washed! Do you love it or hate it? I am going to share with you, in a series of blog posts, how we do things naturally around our house and what products we use. First up, is how we wash the dishes, naturally! We do have a very nice dishwasher which I give thanks for often (when you do lots of cooking and have kids, it’s just about a necessity!). I like to use Kin Kin dishwasher powder. I have reviewed the Kin Kin...
Read MoreRoadtesting Enjo (and a giveaway)
When I mentioned I was road-testing ENJO on Facebook, I was surprised at how many of you are already ENJO converts! Of course I had heard of ENJO - I think I had even been invited to a party once. However, I wasn’t too keen. Why? Well I had purchased a couple of the cheap ENJO knock-offs from the supermarket and I wasn’t impressed. I was really skeptical about how you could clean without something apart from water! That and the fact that I had to stop going to shopping parties because I would get...
Read MorePure Revolution Soap Nuts : Day 5 of Giveaway-A-Day
Today’s giveaway will have you washing your clothes for a whole year for free, without chemicals!! Soap nuts are such a fabulous product. You can’t get much more natural than something straight from Mother Nature! I mentioned on my Facebook page one day that I had always wanted to try soap nuts and the very kind girls from Pure Revolution Soap Nuts promptly posted me some to try. So, what is a soap nut? (No, it’s not someone crazy about soap!) Soap nuts are small outer shells of a berry grown on...
Read MoreHow to rescue your burnt pans, naturally!
I may or may not have burnt the bejesus out of one of my good stainless steel Scanpan saucepans while I was chatting on Facebook one day. It got scrubbed. It went through the dishwasher several times. Still black. Still very baked-on. Then, I had an epiphany and got to work. My saucepan was renewed. It was quite miraculous. I did give thanks. So, this is how you do it: Get your pan with the burnt bum. Chuck it on the stove and fill about a quarter of the way with water. Add three to four teaspoons (or more...
Read MoreGot Lemons? Six natural cleaning tips using lemons!
Lemony lemons, is there anything so nice? Here are some ways you can use them around your house. It cuts down the chemicals and leaves everything smelling fresh! As well as being acidic, lemons have some anti-bacterial properties which make it a perfect degreaser. 1. Use half a lemon to clean the build up from around your taps. Just rub it in well and rinse off. It really works! 2. Sprinkle some salt onto half a cut lemon and use it to scrub your pots and pans. They will be shiny and new again! 3. Sprinkle...
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