I haven’t been able to write about much lately. I’m still testing a few things – like a scrubbing bubbles substitute and swiffer wet jet refill recipes.
Yesterday I decided to make some more homemade laundry soap/detergent, but instead of gelling it I’m going to leave it as a powder. When I grate the soap, it comes out powder-y so I thought I’ll try a powder, since the gel takes up so much room in my itty bitty laundry room. So far though I really like how the gel is working. It just doesn’t dispense from my dispenser very well, so I have been putting it in with the clothes. I’m hoping the powder will work in the dispenser.
I’ve also discovered for sure that we have insanely hard water – I read somewhere 10 is hard, 15 is REALLY hard. We’re 19.5. ack! I knew we had hard water but didn’t know it was that bad. So I’m going to have to check out some water softener additive of some kind. The only kind I know of here is Calgon and I’m sure it has a lot of chemicals in it so I’m not sure if that will work, ‘green’-wise. There’s no way we can afford a whole home water softener at the moment either. I’ll have to do more research on it.
Hopefully I’ll be able to post more recipes that have worked for me, in the near future.
