Homemade Laundry Soap - No Grate, No Cook !!

Remember how I said I hadn't jumped into green cleaning with both feet?   Strike that....

After a seriously successful experiment with ammonia and a very icky (hey, it's a technical term!) broiler pan...I have decided to try more of the homemade cleaners.  I noticed over the weekend that my stockpile of 30 bottles of laundry soap had dwindled to a mere 5 under my husband's watchful eye, so I am going to start there.

I've found this recipe for a liquid laundry soap that does not require you to grate soap or cook on the stove. 


3T Borax
3T Washing soda (NOT baking soda!)
2T Dawn dish soap (great as a grease fighter and adds a lovely scent!)

Put these 3 ingredients into a one gallon container.  Add 4 cups boiling water.  Gently shake to dissolve.  Let cool.   Add cold water to equal one gallon.  


Since I had so many empty laundry containers that I'd saved, I filled up 2 of them from this recipe.   These 2 gallons cost less than 40 cents to make.    Reviews on this laundry soap seems to be positive web-wide...I'll make sure to share my take on it after I've done our weekly laundry!

Ammonia Trick

Spring Cleaning has arrived at our house once again...

One of the things that i desperately needed to do was clean our oven and our stove, including the burner pans.  I used a trick i found on Pinterest to clean the burner pans and thought I would share it here.    I put each of the pans in their own ziplock baggie with about 1/2 cup of ammonia, sealed them up and put them out on the deck for a few hours.  I just rinsed and photographed.   The Pinterest tip said to leave it over night...given that my results were not as positive as hers were, next time I will definitely try leaving overnite.   There i still some residue on the pans, as you can see by the photo but overall this was a fabulous tip!

location, location, location

Do you ever find yourself getting so frustrated knowing that you have a bag of dried split peas somewhere for soup but just can't find it?!?!?!     I recently tacked this situation head on....

I headed to Meijer - $2 off coupons for SnapTite storage containers in hand and VOILA!  My new pantry cupboard.   The spice cabinet better beware...i'm on the rampage!!!