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How to Make Your Own Homemade Safe Baby Body Wash {GUEST POST}

October 19th, 2011 · 51 Comments · Cleaning, Green Living

Pin ItThis is a guest post about how to make your own soap for baby by Erin Odom of The Humbled Homemaker When I became a mother, I starting thinking about my family’s health and nutrition for the first time. I breastfed (until my first daughter was almost 2 and still going with my second [...]

A Little Something from The Willow Store to Help You Clean Up {GIVEAWAY CLOSED}

October 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Cleaning, What to Buy

Pin It “What happened?” My mother-in-law came into the kitchen while I was cleaning the floor with my new forever cloth. She assumed, because I was cleaning, that some disaster had occurred. Sigh. I promise I’m not that much of a slob. I clean when new products come in the mail, of course. Disclaimer: Y’all, [...]

Monday Mission: Revisiting Green Cleaning (my Updates)

October 17th, 2011 · 44 Comments · Cleaning, Green Living, Monday Missions

Pin ItYour mission, if you choose to accept, is to refine your natural cleaning in some way. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps (or more?) I’ve talked many times before on how to naturally clean your house, so it’s hard for me to guess where you are today. Maybe you still need to get [...]

A Disappointed Update on Charlie’s Soap and Butylcelosolv (or Butoxyethanol)

March 22nd, 2011 · 101 Comments · Cleaning

Pin ItI do not like when the wool is pulled over my eyes. I really don’t like being lied to or feeling like someone kind of sort of told a lie, but tried to make it look honorable. And when I share that untruth or half-truth with the world before finding out that I’m wrong, [...]

How do Seventh Generation Products Stack Up?{REVIEW}

November 17th, 2010 · 76 Comments · Cleaning, Green Living, What to Buy

Pin ItDo I have too much fun with this review stuff? Perhaps I’m becoming addicted to comparing everything in my life. I can hardly buy a new product without wondering how it stacks up against the competition and scheming about how I can get two or three different ones to compare. I guess if I [...]

Monday Mission: Green and Natural Household Cleaners – Pick One

November 15th, 2010 · 38 Comments · Cleaning, Green Living, What to Buy

Pin ItYour mission, if you choose to accept, is to extend last week’s “greening up” to your cleaning cabinet. If you feel green clean already, head back to the natural personal products list from last week and see what else you can change there. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps to Making Strides I’ve [...]

How to Naturally Get Rid of Ants in your House

June 30th, 2010 · 35 Comments · Cleaning, Do It Yourself, Organic Gardening

Pin It I killed 50 ants today in 10 minutes. Turns out that spilled sugar and a sticky molasses jar attract ants like…well, like spilled sugar and a sticky puddle of molasses! The microwave cabinet where I keep my sweeteners (since I don’t use a microwave anymore) was taken over by ants, the little kind [...]