Green Stuff...DIY

I know that you are all aware that I have been making the switch to natural cleaning products. So far so good. The only thing I am having trouble giving up...carpet fresh. I love carpet fresh! I have been known to sprinkle it around the house before people come over so it smells like I just cleaned! I felt like carpet fresh couldn't be too hard to make yourself. It's baking soda and smelly stuff right? So I took to the internets and found how easy (seriously...ridiculously easy) it is to make your own!

This is where I found the "recipe". I had an old sugar container that has a little shaker top. Perfect! I only had tea tree oil on hand. So not exactly the preferred scent but I kinda love it so whatever...I used it. I mixed it all together and sprinkled it around the house. Pretty awesome folks. I vacuumed it up per usual and I could smell a pleasant faint scent of tea tree.

Next on the docket...Dr. Bronner's magic soap. Have you used this? It's been around forever! Oddly enough while surfing around on hulu I happened to come across a documentary about Dr. Bronner. Something about him escaping from a mental institution? Yeah...I dunno. You call him crazy...I call him a genius. This soap is fabulous! The bottle is kinda weird. It is covered in words and quotes and various other things that are both confusing and entertaining to read. I have used the pepermint soap for years but hadn't really branched out until this week. I bought the rose hemp soap. I am in love. A) who doesn't love the smell of roses? B) It makes your skin feel soft and clean and lovely. C) who needs a C. It smells good and it seems to work.

Aside from using the soap in the bath or shower there are 7 million other ways you can use this soap. I know some people who use it as laundry detergent. I have used it in a spray bottle to clean the bathroom. I have also used it to mop the floors. I even heard you can use it as a deodorant, toothpaste, and mouthwash (no...I'm not kidding).

And last but certainly not least...rubbing alcohol. Everyone has this stuff lying around the house. I have found a new and relatively green way to use it! Spot cleaning my microfiber couch! I put a little bit on a white cloth (they say to use white so that you don't have any color bleeding onto your couch) and rubbed it on the dirty spots on the couch (mostly spit-up). Yes it smelled like a distillery while I was cleaning the spots but it doesn't smell now! It really worked amazingly well!