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Monday Mission: Revisiting Green Cleaning (my Updates)

October 17th, 2011 · 42 Comments · Cleaning, Green Living, Monday Missions

Your 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 rid [...]

Monday Mission: Green and Natural Household Cleaners – Pick One

November 15th, 2010 · 35 Comments · Cleaning, Green Living, What to Buy

Your 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 added [...]

How to Wash Your Hair Without Shampoo

November 11th, 2010 · 112 Comments · Green Living

It’s been over a year since I told you I stopped wearing deodorant, so I guess it’s about time I get fresh and honest with you again. It’s also been over a year since I washed my hair with shampoo regularly. It was June of last year when my last bottle of shampoo emitted its [...]

Natural Kitchen Cleaners: What’s Under my Sink?

September 15th, 2009 · 62 Comments · Cleaning, Do It Yourself, Frugality

What’s under your kitchen sink? When you have children and you start putting the Poison Center’s “Mr. Yuk” stickers all over your bottles, you really start to realize that there are far too many things under there that you wouldn’t want in your baby’s mouth…so then why are they in your kitchen? If you had [...]

Monday Mission: Switch your Baking Powder to Aluminum-Free

August 31st, 2009 · 4 Comments · What to Buy

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to switch your baking powder to one that doesn’t contain aluminum. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps When I first heard about aluminum potentially causing Alzheimer’s, I was very surprised that it was in baking powder. I went home and checked! I decided, baby step style, [...]

Effective Homemade Deodorant: My Baby Steps Story

August 27th, 2009 · 127 Comments · Big Changes, Do It Yourself, Frugality, KS lifestyle, What to Buy

I never thought I would make homemade deodorant, believe me, but as I told you Wednesday when we talked about hazards of antiperspirants, I wanted to make a baby step away from antiperspirant last December. I have used Degree for years, because many other name brands didn’t work for me. I’m not a dainty little [...]

How to Clean your Stovetop and Oven, the Simple, Safe, Frugal Way

August 25th, 2009 · 37 Comments · Cleaning, Frugality, What to Buy

My mother, bless her heart, has always been an excellent homemaker and had all sorts of nifty little tricks. One of her sayings was always that you weren’t finished baking until you had cleaned up, and the dishes weren’t done until you had wiped down the counters and the stove. My college roommates weren’t as [...]