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The no buying cleaning products challenge
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Update: There is a video on making home - made laundry powder on the Dri Pak website. In it, it's mentioned that borax is no longer available in the UK, but borax substitute, as sold by Dri-Pak is.Erma Bombeck, American writer: "If I had my life to live over again... I would have burned the pink candle, sculptured like a rose, that melted in storage." Don't keep things 'for best' - that day never comes. Use them and enjoy them now.0
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There's a recipe for home made washing powder or gloop on the old style index
:D "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf"
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There's a recipe for home made washing powder or gloop on the old style index:D
Dagnabbit, I knew I'd seen it somewhere, oh well, never mind. The one I cobbled together worked perfectly. Erma Bombeck, American writer: "If I had my life to live over again... I would have burned the pink candle, sculptured like a rose, that melted in storage." Don't keep things 'for best' - that day never comes. Use them and enjoy them now.0 -
Still have only bought one bottle of stardrops during the whole challenge.was stocked up beforehand though, but think this is quite good going:D:D"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf"
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How we all doing?I'm still surviving on stardrops, white vinegar n bicarb:j:j"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf"
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For anyone that does not want to make there own washing powder, I bought this about 18 months ago and will not need any till about the new year.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10KGS-TOP-BRAND-CRUSHED-WASHING-POWDER-TABLETS-/140589496433?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item20bbc97871
I have never had a problem with it, but that said we do not suffer from sensitive skin or the like, smells good too.Ebay 13
........1583.46/2000.00 Amazon sales 54/50 Etsy sales 63/50
Amazon 14.......4/50 Etsy14............46/75. Ebay........23/2000 -
415SanFran wrote: »For anyone that does not want to make there own washing powder, I bought this about 18 months ago and will not need any till about the new year.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10KGS-TOP-BRAND-CRUSHED-WASHING-POWDER-TABLETS-/140589496433?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item20bbc97871
I have never had a problem with it, but that said we do not suffer from sensitive skin or the like, smells good too.
Ooooh might give it a go hun.Thanks for the link x:D"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf"
(Kabat-Zinn 2004):D:D:D0
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