July 11th, 2009 | D.I.Y., Sustainable, clean, dishes, economic, environment, green, laundry, soap, soapnuts, Sustainable, toilet, wash
I’ve been using soapnuts for just about everything lately. They are especially handy for doing laundry. All you have to do is tie up 5 berries in a muslin or net bag and toss it in with your laundry. I like to add a few drops of musk oil, and a bit of hydrogen peroxide to remind me of the perfumed laundry soaps I have grown up with. One bag of five soapnuts will be able to wash about 5 loads of laundry, or more, just keep an eye on your soapnuts, and as they break down you can add some more.
I also found that you can make them into a liquid detergent which I have described and detailed in my Cradle to Cradle Dish-washing instructable. This liquid can also be used for washing out the fridge, cleaning tables, the floor or anything else that need cleaning. It can be used for shampoo and as a spray for house plants to help to protect them from insects or fungus.
I also have found that keeping a bag of soapnuts in the toilet tank will help to keep the toilet smelling fresh and keep it clean.
June 21st, 2009
After waiting for residency for more than a year, wondering how much longer I would be an illegitimate person was starting to wear on me. But, as they say, when the planets are in line everything falls into place. The full rose moon of June 7th, 2009 was such a day. I finally got my Canadian residen ...
May 7th, 2009
I am a long-time a convert to the soapnut craze. I first noticed these little fruits in Burma/Myanmar where they use them in their traditional shampoo. A couple years ago I discovered that their popularity has really grown in Western countries and now you can spend top dollar on powdered soapnut lau ...
April 18th, 2009
There are as many ways to guerrilla garden as there are stars in the sky, and that is the best thing about it. The best way to do it is your way and to just get started. Many people love to make seed bombs and drop them as a group, other people love sneaking privately about the city -- planting plot ...
April 2nd, 2009
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD
Medicinal Stories that Nourish the Soul
A culture that requires harm to one's soul in order to follow the culture's proscriptions is a very sick culture indeed. This culture can be the one a women lives in, but more damning yet, it ca ...
June 16th, 2007
Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy
by Hazel Henderson (Dec, 2006 Chelsea Green Publishing Company)
www.ethicalMarkets.com
I found this book to be a very comprehensive and interesting reading. The amount of information and the way it was all set out is very helpful. It includes web ...
