This week my green audit is about my household cleaning recipes favorites.
As you already know the benefits of home products are:
Less packaging waste.
less expensive.
less harmful (no harm to anyone) or humans or animals or the earth. Less
noxious odors in the house. (Homemade natural cleaners always smell better than store bought.) Well, than by vinegar - but there are several tricks to mask the smell of vinegar. Lavender essential oil and lemon juice work very well to mask the vinegar smell repulsive.
Here we go. My 25 favorite household cleaning products, with recipes for a few who are more advanced ...
sink drains clogged and bathtubs: Try not to throw oil down the sink or food. It is one of the main causes clogging the pipe. If you have a slow leak, pour a cup of hot vinegar over a cup of baking soda down the drain. Let sit for a few minutes (bubble). Rinse with a teapot full of boiling water. If you really have problems, use a snake or a plunger. Honestly, drain cleaners are something that should never have at home - is one of the most dangerous products box containing the chemical.
air cleaning options:
Natural Lighting candles, burning incense, organic orange peel and boil the spices in the oven, spread essential oils, open windows, buy a few plants that helps to oxygenate the air inside your home, use cedar blocks dotted with lavender in the closets, or make potpourri. Most aerosol
commercial plug-in, and other air fresheners contain numerous toxic ingredients. Poreso is better to make our own natural incense. (Ie, derived from natural resins, gums, essential oils, flowers, forests, dust and other botanicals.)
Get an oil burner of low cost and reusable and boiling organic essential oils of the house. Alternatively, you can boil some water and add bulk cinnamon sticks, cloves and orange peel. It is an aroma that is used on holidays like Christmas, but I do all year. How do
Potpourri Where to get the ingredients:
Ask your florist flowers discarded or dry your own flowers. Harvesting ingredients
Manage your herbs and flowers with care to avoid bruising them for their essential oils.
The best time to collect leaves, roots, flowers and seeds is early in the morning after the dew has evaporated.
Choose plants that are clean, free of any pests or diseases.
always collect 4 times the amount needed for the final potpourri mix of flowers, leaves, etc will shrink when dried. Drying Methods
The drying process It usually takes up to 2 weeks in general. There are two methods for drying flowers and herbs.
1> Air Drying: With a window screen works pretty well. Allows air circulation around the plant material. Hanging
: ammarrados together several small bunches, tie the stems with rubber bands or string. Store
potpourri
Store your "new" potpourri in sealable containers or plastic bags. Make potpourri
To make the potpourri basically need four main ingredients.
Flores y hojas
Aceites esenciales
Especias y hierbas
Fijador.
Instrucciones Generales:
Después que popurrí se hace y se seca, agregar 6 gotas de aceite esencial de su favorito por cada taza de mezcla de popurrí seco. Mantener en un recipiente cerrado durante unas pocas semanas para permitir que el olor a penetrar en el material vegetal. Revuelva la mezcla de todos los días.
Purple Haze
Ingredientes:
1 taza de lavanda seca (Lavandula officinalis) (violeta)
7-8 gotas de esencia de lavanda o de aceite de fragancia
2 cucharadas de raíz seca de lirio
1 / 2 taza de clavel rosa cabezas (Dianthus caryophyllus)
1 / 2 cup (bright yellow) flower heads Lemon Marigold (Tagetes tenifolia)
1 / 4 cup (pale green) leaves Lamb Ears (Stachys byzantina)
American Dream Ingredients:
1 / 2 cup ( blue) flowers Delphinium (Delphinium x Cultorum)
1 cup raisins (red) rose buds (red)
1 / 2 cup (white) Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea)
1 / 2 cup (blue) Statice (Limonium sinuatum)
4-6 drops Rose essential / fragrance oil 2 tablespoons
dried root of iris
Citrus Delight Ingredients:
2 tablespoons dried root root 5 tablespoons Florence
bearberry leaf (Arctostaphylos uva ursi)
6-8 drops of lemon essential / fragrance oil
1 / 2 cup dried Yarrow flowers (Achillea millefolium)
1 / 2 cup of lemon verbena (Aloysia triphylla)
1 / 4 cup of dried flowers of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L)
1 / 4 cup orange peel cut very fine, dry
Wild Flower Fields
Ingredients:
1 / 4 cup of dried flowers Elder (Sambucus nigra)
2 tablespoons of dried root of iris
1 / 4 cup flower heads of chamomile (Anthemis L. nobilis or Matricaria chamomilla)
1 / 4 cup leaves of bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva ursi)
1 / 2 cup Calendula (Marigold) flower heads (Calendula officinalis)
2 drops of lavender essential oil or fragrance
* Use 1-2 tablespoons dried orris root per cup of dried potpourri mix.
Place cedar blocks or dried lavender in the closets and drawers.
There are more forms of naturally cool your home that are not dependent on chemicals. What do you think?
3. Remove soap scum: Apply baking soda (not abrasive). Wipe with a damp cloth or sponge. I use an old toothbrush for that.) You can use vinegar or borax as well, but borax can scratch. The vinegar can be applied directly and can not scratch. (I warm it to work faster)
4. Small spots an carpets: Two words - club soda!
5. Expand toughest carpet stains: Sprinkle cornstarch on the carpet. Let stand for about 20-30 minutes. Rub with a cup of vinegar mixed with three cups water. If you really do not get it try a natural soap-based carpet cleaner.
6. Deodorant Carpet: Sprinkle baking soda on the carpet. Add some crushed dried lavender or basil. Wait about 1 / 2 hour. Then vacuum.
7. Oven Cleaning: not allow spills to remain for long at the bottom of your oven. It will become more difficult to clean. The best way to clean the oven is sooner rather than later empolvoreando a little coarse salt, then turn off the oven. Set the oven bottom foil to catch spills. In this way the darrames will fall there.
8. Cleaning the oven it dirty? Ok, if you spill hot, sprinkle with salt. Mix a little baking soda - can take maybe two tablespoons in a cup, with a little water to make a thin paste. Use a toothbrush or bristle brush to scrub down.
9. Daily cleaning of the bathrooms: Sprinkle a little baking soda and lemon juice in the toilet and walk (without flosharlo). Eventually you will come back and rub it with a toilet brush.
10. Another great idea for the toilet: Believe it or not! - I have used alkaseizer. Yes. Although the alkaseizer are good for sestomacales remedy, however, these pills do wonders in cleaning the home. Put two pills in the toilet bowl and leave it there for half an hour. Then wipe with cleaning brush and toiliet and see the results. Also, spray vinegar around the bowl, then sprinkle with baking soda, leave for half an hour, then rub.
11. Metal oxide: Mix 2 tablespoons of salt and 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Apply and rub well.
12. Mystical things: Suppose you have an old suitcase or a truck that's all stale, but would like to use. Fill it with crumpled newspaper recycled let it sit for a week. The paper will absorb the odor (mostly) and then fill a bottle with water, add a few drops of tea tree oil, sprinkle lightly and leave it open to dry.
13. Burnt food or cooking smells fishy: Take a plate of oven-proof aluminum. Spray aluminum with cinnamon, nutmeg and a hint of orange essential oil - Put in hot oven and let sit in oven to cool.
14. All-purpose disinfectant: Mix a few drops natural soap, 2 cups of water and 15 drops each of tea tree and lavender essential oil (you can use only one of them, but then added 30 drops). You can sprinkle this on all surfaces, as cutting boards, countertops, bathrooms, walls (except glass scratch). This material disinfects, but it's so safe you can actually spray it on the things your baby.
15. Remove mold: Try not to let the mold invading your home. You can stop it! You can prevent mold ORGAANICAMENTE. Clean often with disinfectant over the places with borax mold may develop from time to time. Borax prevents mold and disinfects.
16. Basic Wax Furniture: Mix 1 / 4 cup vinegar with 3 / 4 cup olive oil or mix 1 / 4 cup lemon juice 1 / 2 cup olive oil. Clean Furniture with a soft cloth and solution.
17. Herbal Disinfectant: Choose a fresh herb - lavender, eucalyptus, juniper, sage, thyme or rosemary. Simmer the leaves and stems for 30 minutes. You can use any water, but the less you use the stronger the solution and disinfectant properties. Strain, pour the liquid in the bottle, and use it on any surface, but a glass bottle. If you add a dash of natural soap to wash or biodegradable plates will cut the fat.
18. Homemade mop herbal: The stem of horsetail is as a scouring pad for pots and pans, and will not scratch. Simply rub a few dry (without leaves) of stems to the pots and pans. It will leave a little green - but while the water washed disappear.
19. Wood floor wax: Mix equal parts vinegar and olive oil. Apply a thin layer and rub-just stand on an old towel and the strength of the feet can clean the entire floor.
20. Glass Window Cleaner: Mix 1 / 2 cup vinegar to one gallon of water or club Zoda. (Ami I like best the club Zoda) can also be alcohol. - Spraying and wiping.
21. Glass Cleaner that does not smell like vinegar: Use lemon juice or club soda. If you use mineral water but the newspaper is the best debugger for use. If you use lemon juice but an old rag less less debugger.
22. Clean sink: Rub with baking soda and water. Also a halved lime scrubbing is buenisimo. Kills any germs and bacteria.
23: Cleaning Microwave: Place a bowl of straight vinegar or a bowl of water with 15 drops of tea tree oil in the microwave. heat for about 2 minutes. The microwave is vaporized himself and will be easier to clean with a damp cloth.
24. Silver polish: Rub silver with white toothpaste and rinse with warm water. LEANING 25.L
Whole House: Never underestimate good hot water and some debuggers. If you really want to get fancy add a few drops of natural soap, but the hot water clean almost anything. but nothing will not disinfected, not kill many germs and eliminate dust. Warm water is especially useful when you add alcohol or vinegar to desifestar any surface ..
0 comments:
Post a Comment