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30-Second Homemade All-Purpose Kitchen Cleaner Recipe (Clean Hardwood Floors Naturally!)

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 05/27/2020

I’m really not a big DIY person. Yes, I make all my food homemade and from scratch. Well, almost. But I’ve never gotten into greasing up my pots with beeswax and coconut oil to make homemade lotion bars or figuring out much beyond this simple homemade deodorant, which honestly I don’t really bother with anymore. […]

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Hydrogen Peroxide used as an effective cleaner and disinfectant

Is Hydrogen Peroxide a Disinfectant?

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 05/08/2020

Hydrogen peroxide is cost-effective, widely available, and promoted by many as an effective disinfectant. Along with baking soda and vinegar, it’s one of my three favorite natural green cleaners. I’ve counted on it for years! Imagine my surprise when I received an email asking me to rescind my information about the hydrogen peroxide/vinegar duo for

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Life Without Plastic 8cm Stainless Steel airtight yogurt containers

Top 10 Green Gifts this Season

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 11/21/2017

Earth friendly gifts are always in style no matter your family and holiday traditions! Check out these green Christmas gifts to spoil those you love most. If the world is having trouble because we are using too many resources, it’s always a good idea to buy less and give less! But often we still want

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Monday Missions Baby Steps Back to Basics

Clean with Green from Floor to Ceiling

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 01/03/2017

It’s easy to get overwhelmed by natural green cleaners. You see a tip about using vinegar to clean – where do I use it? you wonder. Your grandma emails you 50 ways to use baking soda in the home – how do I remember these when I need them? And Pinterest serves up “50 green cleaners” or

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Is the air in your home making you sick? I've got some quick and easy tricks to get it clean.

Is Your Home’s Air Making You Sick? (All About Indoor Air Quality)

Jamie Larrison / 01/21/2015

Who doesn’t love the smell of a good stinky gym bag, or a dog kennel, or even your great aunt’s old couch from the ’70’s? While you may think it’s ridiculous that anyone would enjoy taking a whiff of these stinky smells, did you realize your home’s air could be just as bad for you?

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Natural cleaning only requires a few items. How to safely clean baby toys & the kitchen.

Super Safe, Super Cheap Disinfecting Solution for Baby Toys and Your Kitchen

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 01/09/2015

Chicken with a side of bleach, anyone? I used to have a bottle of diluted bleach water under my sink (which was likely often way too strong because I didn’t realize quite how diluted it could be and still be effective), and I would whip it out when I cooked with raw chicken or killed

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Monday Mission: Wash Green, not Green Wash

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 01/06/2015

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to hone your senses for green-washing as you up your game with green cleaners. It turns out that although MANY “natural” cleaning products us methylisothiazolinone and sodium benzoate as preservatives, there are still some pretty unnatural risks. The new year is a great time to focus on taking

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Monday Mission: Your Top 3 Eco-Friendly Tips

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 01/20/2014

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to reflect on what you do to save the earth – and pinpoint the top 3 eco-friendly habits you have. Two weeks ago, we shared our top 3 frugal tips to help save others’ pocketbooks, and this week, we’re going to help save the earth. Just like

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Even organic produce needs to be cleaned before you eat it! This {mostly} hands off method takes only minutes but the results will save you money in the long run!

How to Clean Produce Naturally and Save Money

Katie Kimball / 11/07/2012

Want to know the first thing I do after I get all my groceries put away each week? Take a nap. (Umm, just kidding. I’d like to on some days after a long shopping trip with three little kids!) Actually, the first thing I try to do when I get done putting away groceries is

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How to Tell if Laundry Soap Nuts Still Have Cleaning Power

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 03/13/2012

If you use natural soap nuts for washing your laundry, you’ll quickly find that there’s a bit of a learning curve. Compared to pouring in a measured amount of liquid, dried fruit in a bag is a different system entirely! Already lost? Check out my soap nut reviews to learn more about my experiences with

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A list of many homemade natural carpet cleaner ideas, using simple items like vinegar for steam vacuum machines and baking soda for odors.

Homemade Natural Carpet Cleaner for Steam Vacuums

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 01/27/2012

What’s the best natural carpet cleaner? Learn from my mistakes with homemade carpet cleaner when you clean your carpets naturally. I have a few things to say about this photo of dirty water from cleaning my carpet: First of all, isn’t it lovely? The image of a job well done. Second, my apologies. Normal food

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How to make natural, homemade baby wipes. Save money and know what you are putting on your baby's skin.

How to Make Homemade Natural Baby Wipes

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 10/19/2011

Will I be called a hypocrite for teaching you how to make disposable baby wipes using bleached paper towel? Last week a reader used the term because I freely admitted to using disposable diapers in the same post as I said, “It’s important to know what’s going on baby’s skin.” The mission of Kitchen Stewardship®

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Ever wondered how good Seventh Generation green cleaners, chlorine-free diapers, and natural feminine hygiene products are? I review it all, pros and cons.

How Do Seventh Generation Products Stack Up? {REVIEW}

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 11/17/2010

Do I have too much fun with this review stuff? Perhaps I’m becoming addicted to comparing everything in my life. I can hardly buy a new product without wondering how it stacks up against the competition and scheming about how I can get two or three different ones to compare. I guess if I have

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How to Wash Your Hair Without Shampoo

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 11/11/2010

It’s been over a year since I told you I stopped wearing deodorant, so I guess it’s about time I get fresh and honest with you again. It’s also been over a year since I washed my hair with shampoo regularly. It was June of last year when my last bottle of shampoo emitted its

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Green and Natural Body Products

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 11/08/2010

I often find it overwhelming to “go green” in so many areas of life, especially personal care products. If you’re a green rookie, you may feel like there are so many changes you want to make and simply don’t know where to start. This comprehensive list of green and natural body care products that I’ve

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Monday Mission: Clean Up Without Throwing Out

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 01/01/2010

Your mission, if you choose to accept it (on a Friday!), is to decrease what you throw away while attempting to keep a clean house. Watching some people clean up is like being the unfortunate witness to another mother’s child’s screaming hissy fit: I’m embarrassed and pained to watch, and the memory can be seared

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The Final Answer: How Does Biokleen Dishwasher Detergent Work? (And Their Other Stuff Too?)

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 11/23/2009

Hah-lelujah! It was a Sunday morning when I opened the dishwasher. Appropriately, I woke husband up singing the Hallelujah chorus when I saw the job Biokleen dishwasher detergent did. Clear glasses? Check. Cut the grease? Check. Zero food residue? Check. 100% success, zero rejections? Check. It even cleaned my yogurt jar, which I’ve found, since

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Kill Fruit Flies Naturally – No Toxic Chemicals!

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 09/15/2009

Fruit flies filling your kitchen? Here’s an easy way to kill fruit flies naturally – no chemicals and easy to do. You already have everything you need! Fruit flies are invading my house! I’ve never seen so many fruit flies in one poor little kitchen. Luckily my grandma just showed me a super-easy (like, you won’t

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Get rid of the toxic chemicals by using these three natural cleaners. Safe, effective and readily available! http://staging.kitchenstewardship.com/2009/09/15/natural-kitchen-cleaners-whats-under-my-sink/

Natural Kitchen Cleaners: What’s Under My Sink?

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 09/15/2009

What’s under your kitchen sink? When you have children and you start putting the Poison Center’s “Mr. Yuk” stickers all over your bottles, you really start to realize that there are far too many things under there that you wouldn’t want in your baby’s mouth…so then why are they in your kitchen? If you had

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Lots of cleaners that I replaced with ONE concentrated bottle of...what?

A Must-Have Supply for Camping

Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® / 09/03/2009

EDIT: A commenter asked what the ingredients in Shaklee Basic H2 are, and lo and behold, they’re not on the bottle! I really dislike companies who won’t disclose. I went looking online for the ingredients and discovered that they’re pretty hard to find. This site listed them supposedly from the MSDS and had some concerns,

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