Clean Naturally and on a budget- Pumice Stone Trick

Hi Ladies!

Have a ring in your toilet and you have scrubbed it as much as you can? Or hard water stains on your porcelain tub?

My tip thisweek:

Use a pumice stone and water to remove it!

Put on gloves and get pumice stone wet. Rub pumice on ring continually getting it wet again. Repeat until ring is gone. Same with a sink or tub. Just make sure the surface you are pumicing and the stone itself are always very wet.

Until next week... Happy Pumicing Ladies!

Clean naturally on a budget- Laundry Soap

This post is copied straight from my personal blog. It is amazing inexpensive laundry soap. Annie has the luxury of me making hers and supplying her with it because her and Ryon are so generous to let us do our laundry there.

Supplies Needed

1 Bar Fels Naptha Soap Bar

4 C. Hot Water

1 C. Washing Soda

1/2 C. Borax

10-15 drops Essential Oil/ 2 Gal. Laundry Soap (not needed unless you choose to add it)

1. Grate Fels Naptha Bar with cheese grater.

(Make sure to wash things well after making soap)

2. Add grated Fels Naptha Soap to 4 C. water

3. Heat on medium until Fels Naptha has dissovled. Stirring Constanly.

4. Fill 5 gal. bucket half full with hot tap water.

5. Pour in water and Fels Naptha solution, stir.

6. Mix together Washing Soda and Borax and add to liquid. Make sure powder dissolves completely.

7. Fill bucket with Hot Water to 5 gal. line, stir.
8. Put lid on, let sit overnight to cool.

9. After cooled, stir, add Essential Oil of your choice.

10. Put in used, clean Laundry soap dispenser. Fill HALF full and add water to fill container. (shake before each use as it will gel)

11. Be SO HAPPY that you just took one step closer to having a green home and saving tons of money!

Only 14.10 was spent on the supplies needed not including the bucket and lid.

Reciepe yeilds 10 Gals. Laundry Soap

Top Load Machine- 1 C.per load. I don't think you actually need to use that much for one load but let me try it out and I will get back to you.

Front Load Machine- 1/2 C. per load

We still have tons of left over Washing Soda and Borax so for a long time all we will need to buy is a Fels Naptha bar to make more laundry soap. Its going to take forever to use all that soap though!

I really recommend giving this recipe a try. It took about a half hour to make and will save you SOOO much money. It is also GREEN!

Recipe Courtesy of- The Duggar Family (TLC)

Clean naturally on a budget- Dishwasher Detergent

Hello Ladies!

So happy to be blogging with you and sharing our ideas!

I am now cleaning my home naturally so the things that I post will be of that nature. Some things are still not great for you if you eat them but it takes a lot more for it to be lethal or cause permanent damage than your average cleaner like drano or toilet bowl cleaner.

It is better for your health and your pocket book and it is SO simple!

Cleaning Recipe of the week:

Dishwasher Detergent-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_carbonate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borax

Equal parts Borax and Washing soda!

(if you find that your glasses are spotted add a little more washing soda to the mixture)

Use in the dishwasher just as you would your everyday store bought detergent.

See it is that simple!

Until next week, Happy Dish Washing!