From the category archives:

Cleaning

Home Made Laundry Detergent One Year Later

July 21, 2008
Homemade Laundry Detergent

It’s been a little over a year that I’ve been using homemade laundry detergent. I’ve got to say that overall I found it to be a positive experiment. There are a few tweaks here and there and a little bit of intervention required but all in all I will continue to use the homemade laundry [...]

55 comments Read the full article →

Stretch your Dish Washing Liquid with Hydrogen Peroxide

June 18, 2008
Dirty Kitchen

On a whim, I decided to mix hydrogen peroxide with my dish washing liquid. Normally after I get through washing the dishes, I clean the sink with a little hydrogen peroxide. It scrubs the stainless steel sink clean, leaves a great shine and it also disinfects the sink, sponge and counter top area. One day [...]

4 comments Read the full article →

Sometimes all it takes is water

June 1, 2008
Pup

We are so accustomed to adding a cleaning additive to our water in order to clean anything. Have you ever tried cleaning your windows with just water first? Just for grins, fill a spray bottle with water. Use it to clean your windows before you attempt to use a cleaning additive (even if the additive [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

Baking Soda – A BLULOW Must Have

May 27, 2008

In an earlier post I mentioned that in addition to my dish washing detergent I added baking soda to my dishwasher and my dishes came out sparkling clean. Well it seems that adding baking soda to the laundry detergent helps to boost the detergent’s cleaning power and the clothes also come out softer. The baking [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

Say goodbye to spotty dishes

May 19, 2008
Thumbnail image for Say goodbye to spotty dishes

Yet another use for baking soda. I’ve found that mixing equal parts of baking soda and dish detergent (whether its homemade or store bought) to the dishwasher dispenser has produced spotlessly clean dishes. No more water spots on the glasses or the silverware. The silverware is so shiny that depending on how it catches the [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →