Itty Bitty Impact

Homemade Cleaning Solutions

Posted on11. May, 2010 by Tonia.

We’re whittling away at Cheri’s list. Today we’re going to make our own earth friendly cleaning solutions, because commercial cleaners are heavy on toxic chemicals, and consistently buying the eco-friendly brands is really darn expensive.

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How to Make Homemade Laundry Soap

Posted on08. May, 2010 by Tonia.

Last week Cheri shared with us a list of things she is doing to reduce her impact on the environment. I decided we would try each of the things on her list, and show you all how to do them as well. First on the docket is how to make homemade laundry soap. This is such a great thing to do, the main reason being because store-bought laundry detergents have scary ingredients. They can include quaternary ammonium sodium carbonate, sodium alkyl benzene sulfonate, sodium silicate, bleach, and some phosphates. {The fact that my spell-checker thinks that half of those are not real words tells me that they certainly shouldn’t be going into our ground water by the gallons day after day.}

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