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Homemade Laundry Detergent Results
I’ve now washed several loads of laundry using the batch of homemade detergent I made. (If you would like to see the recipe, go here.) Results are in! (Drumroll, please!) 🙂 It’s worked great for coloreds and did fairly well on some very dirty jeans, but when I did a load of whites it didn’t work so well. I picked the dirtiest sock I could find. Now this sock is not representative of how they always look – sometimes they’re worse! What I did for this load of whites was to use 1/2 cup of homemade detergent and 1/2 cup of 3% hydrogen peroxide. Before the wash. AFTER the 1st…
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Homemade Laundry Detergent
A few years ago I tried making my own dishwasher detergent. It was a dismal failure but apparently I was using a wrong ingredient. The recipe called for soda and so I used baking soda. That was very wrong. I needed Washing Soda. I have not tried it again but this week, after talking with a friend who makes her own and after the topic came up on the soap forum I belong to, I did get inspired to make my own laundry detergent. I really do dislike all the perfumes in regular detergent; they are just too strong smelling making my nose twitch. 🙂 I used Fels-Naptha in my laundry…
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EXPO 2010 Update
Snow, rain and cold have marked the last few days. EXPO 2010 was not one of the better years for weather. 🙁 Here’s what we had 2 days ago. Fortunately, our club was able to stay a little more warm and dry because every year we bring our wall tent and set it up for meals. Inside is filled with tables and chairs and breakfast, lunch and supper are served there by different families in our club. We have a lot of great kids in our club this year. Isn’t this 1st year 4-H’er adorable? His dad manages a cattle ranch but they’ve never had pigs until this year. They had…
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Moo, Baa, Maa and Oink
For the next few days, I’ll be surrounded by all the sounds that make up a farm. No, I have not moved out to our barn but I am camped out at the 4-H, 2010 EXPO where the kids show and sale their animals that they have been raising for the last several months. The last few days have been hectic as the children sheared their animals, got poster boards ready and packed to come to EXPO. It’s amazing how much wool a lamb carries around. It’s at least 2″ thick. There’s all kinds of interesting ways to do a job, right? 🙂 Wesley’s pig, Bacon. Justus – looking forward to the day when he…
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50,000 Books Anyone?
We bought 50,000 books last week (gasp!) – but– not for our home library. We sell used books online and we were informed about a couple of ladies getting out of the business and selling their books, so we purchased them. Off to Colorado we went on Monday afternoon. Russell had only got about a 1 1/2 hours of rest because of staying up all night to get taxes done so he started the 13 hour drive tired. Travelling through Flagstaff we saw a highway sign stating that I-17 was closed further ahead for a few hours because of dust storms. So our first stop became a place of…
