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    This DIY dish soap leaves your plates Squeaky Clean

    This homemade dish soap (almost) makes doing the dishes enjoyable!  Benjamin Franklin said only two things are certain in life: death and taxes. Well, we’re pretty sure there’s a third, and that’s dishes! No sooner have you finished washing up than the cups and plates begin to stack up again. Although we can’t stop this fact of life, we have found a way to make dishwashing more enjoyable: Squeaky Clean, a homemade liquid dish soap! With it, washing even the greasiest pots and pans will be a breeze! When we decided to work on this dish soap recipe, we had several goals in mind. We were quite demanding! It had…

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    A paint recipe to Colour Your World

    Your children will love this very easy paint recipe Let’s imagine a violet sky, amber clouds, trees with azure leaves, red grass, and an ocean with golden waves… a whole new wonderful universe to gaze upon and appreciate. But how can you make it a reality? All you need is a homemade paint recipe to Colour Your World to match your dreams! In testing out different formulas for these DIY paints, we transformed our office into an art studio. We unleashed our budding creative spirits to compare textures and colours and select the very best formula. In the end, number eight won unanimously (we tried out quite a few)!  This…

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    This Slice of Sun infuses your linens with a natural summery scent

    Breathe in the sweet scent of summer… by opening your closet! Just imagine: You crack open your wardrobe to find a lovely little orange tree. Its pleasing leaves brighten up the space, and the gentle scent of blossoms and oranges has infused everything inside… Because it is (sadly) tricky to grow a tree in your closet, we came up with a recipe for something almost as cheery: homemade scented wax tablets with an exquisite citrus aroma. Now, you can give your clean laundry a Slice of Sun all year long! Made from either beeswax or vegetable wax (depending on your preference), these wax tablets decorate and delicately perfume your closets…

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    Make a Clean Getaway with this laundry soap recipe

    Making your own laundry detergent has never been so easy! Imagine this: it’s Sunday evening and the end of a pleasant weekend, but there’s still that pile of laundry that you were putting off washing until now. And then… catastrophe strikes! You’re out of laundry detergent! What are you going to do?! Don’t panic just yet, because we have a simple, 4-ingredient laundry detergent recipe for you! There’s still time to make a Clean Getaway! Practical, easy-to-make, and budget-friendly, this homemade laundry soap is sure to please. This DIY liquid detergent is tough on stains but gentle on fabrics and skin. It will be hard to go back to your…

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    Rub-a-Scrub-Scrub your dishes with this recipe

    Thanks for the grub, now let’s Rub-a-Scrub-Scrub! Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub, and who do you think they be? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker… and the dishwasher, if you please! In case this rhyme doesn’t magically clean the dishes for you, why not try making your own tub of Rub-a-Scrub-Scrub? Thanks to this DIY dish soap bar, the daily task of washing dishes will be easier and more enjoyable. There are many advantages to using solid dish soap. Not only is it simple to make and environmentally friendly, it’s also easy on the pocketbook: a single pot will last you several months. Thanks to the vinegar and…