Laundry detergent might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about your environmental impact. It’s obvious that washing our clothes to wear again is less wasteful than throwing them away after one wearing! And in order to get clothes clean and fresh, we need to make the water all soapy, […]
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I’ve been looking for ways to be more frugal for years! Luckily some of my frugal tips for stretching soap also come in handy to make your soap last longer when store shelves are bare. This is one of our many real food, natural living, budget-friendly resources to help you through COVID-19 here at Kitchen
It’s the real food equivalent of high cholesterol and an early death, I’m telling you. They’re everywhere. I’m talking about a common hazard of the real food lifestyle – grease stains. Sometimes I think there might be an alien in my dryer. A greasy one who is sabotaging all of our solid colored shirts. Either
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I’m probably the worst person in the world to test laundry products, but here I am, trying it again. When I do a load of laundry, I hate to admit it, but sometimes it stays in the dryer for days. By that time, I’ve forgotten what brand of soap I was even testing! I made
This is the post I was hoping someone would send me back in July before John was born, or December when I was about to jump into cloth diapers and was scared out of my mind. I couldn’t quite visualize what cloth diapering would be like, and that was a major psychological roadblock for me.
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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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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
