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A multi-purpose cleaner to keep your outdoor space looking fresh
It’s time to clean up outside! Winter is long and hard on your outdoor spaces. They’ve earned a spring cleaning too! But who wants to spray harsh chemicals on the great outdoors? That’s why we decided to come up with an outdoor cleaning spray recipe with ingredients that respect the environment. We specially formulated this homemade multi-purpose outdoor cleaner to dissolve stubborn stains and residues. Our secret ingredient is black soap! When combined with washing soda, this potent soap yields a versatile, budget-friendly, powerful cleaner. Get ready to clean up your outdoor furniture and surfaces so that you can enjoy the summer in style. Before you begin Before you begin…
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Castile soap: One product, endless uses
Three Castile soap recipes for a happy home Our whole team LOVES Castile soap: it’s so effective and multi-purpose! Our version of this gentle, natural soap is made from coconut and sunflower oil and, when used correctly, it can do everything from cleaning your floors, sinks, and work surfaces until they shine to gently washing babies’ delicate skin. It truly does it all! In this article, we’re sharing three great recipes featuring this wonder-soap, so you can learn how to use it if you don’t already or expand your Castile soap horizons if you do. 1. Mild baby soap How to make baby soap Ingredients Phase A 24 g (9.6%) vegetable…
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Make your own laundry detergent from soap scraps
Zero waste goals: Reuse, rinse, repeat! We’ve all been there: There’s almost none of your bar of soap left, just a slim wafer of your treasured creation that’s getting tricky to use, liable to break into even smaller pieces if you so much as look at it the wrong way. So what do you do with it? While tossing those last bits of soap might seem like too little waste to worry over, we like to do everything we can to reduce waste. It all adds up! So, we’re sharing one of our favourite ways to reuse your soap leftovers: our DIY laundry soap recipe. This homemade laundry soap is…
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10 golden rules for making your own products
There are so many benefits to making care and household products yourself: you save money, while ending up with beautiful natural products that are good for you and the environment. But there’s a lot to learn when you start out! With time, DIY becomes quite easy, you just need to pay careful attention to the trickier steps and get to know your ingredients and key techniques. If you take the time to learn and understand the basics when you start out, you’ll set yourself up for success and you’ll be free to experiment later. So today, we’re here to help you take your first steps on your journey into the…
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What is essential oil dispersant and how do you use it?
A few weeks ago, we shared a recipe for a revitalizing hair spray treatment… and one ingredient in particular caught your attention: essential oil dispersant. What is it? What does it do? Can you replace it with something else? We answer all these questions and more in our article—which includes our famous recipe for a rosemary-scented revitalizing hair treatment, plus three more! What is essential oil dispersant? This ingredient suspends essential oils and vegetable oils in an aqueous solution and prevents them from separating. It consists of a water-soluble head and an oil-soluble tail, so that it binds to both oil and water. A dispersant is therefore necessary when you…
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