More Frugal Friday tips!

As I work towards a more healthier and cleaner household, I will be doing a third post on cleaners. You can read my posts on Homemade Deodorant AND Detergents at their links. Today though, I want to talk about all purpose cleaning and what I have been using not only for a disinfectant but my kitchen too! I TRIED to do mostly or even 1/2 vinegar, 1/2 water, essential oil and tea tree but the vinegar was incredibly over powering and lingered! Doing some research, I realized that I only NEEDED 1/4 of a cup of vinegar (and the rest water), to 3-4 drops of tea tree oil and essential oil, and to activate the vinegar and its effectiveness, I added 2 tsp of baking soda!







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I have mentioned in my previous posts about my homemade recipes.

I am LOVING my homemade, all natural deoderant. Since I get my coconut oil at less than HALF price from ebay, this recipe is CHEAPER than ANY all natural deoderant on the market. We are talking PENNIES....The only change I will make next time is to add a touch of Tea Tree oil. I put all of the ingredients into a pint jar. It hardens, just like regular deoderant and the warmth of my fingers allows me to scoop it out. Here is what I do:

1/2 c baking soda
1/2 c cornstarch
enough melted coconut oil to make a paste
(you can also add your tea tree oil and/or essential oils, which can be found in many stores and is a natural antesceptic!)

BTW, I have a friend that has succcessfully only used baking soda and coconut oil and has had great success too!

If you don't know about Aluminum and the links to it and breast cancer , you can click on the link to find out more.

Pour into pint jar while it is liquid. It will eventually harden. I have been using it exclusively now for a while and have enjoyed it, greatly!

I also have done a post about Making your own laundry and dishwashing detergents!
I have more to add to it (Yippee!)

All Natural Fabric softner!
Add 1 cup of Vinegar
It is all natural and works great!

Here is another one for BOTH top Loading and front loading washing machines:

Homemade Liquid Laundry Soap- Front or top load machine- best value

4 Cups hot tap water
1 Fels-Naptha soap bar
1 Cup Washing Soda
½ Cup Borax

- Grate bar of soap and add to saucepan with water. Stir continually over medium-low heat until soap dissolves and is melted.

-Fill a 5 gallon bucket half full of hot tap water. Add melted soap, washing soda and Borax. Stir well until all powder is dissolved. Fill bucket to top with more hot water. Stir, cover and let sit overnight to thicken.

-Stir and fill a used, clean, laundry soap dispenser half full with soap and then fill rest of way with water. Shake before each use. (will gel)

-Optional: You can add 10-15 drops of essential oil per 2 gallons. Add once soap has cooled. Ideas: lavender, rosemary, tea tree oil.

-Yield: Liquid soap recipe makes 10 gallons.

-Top Load Machine- 5/8 Cup per load (Approx. 180 loads)

-Front Load Machines- ¼ Cup per load (Approx. 640 loads)

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I need to remind EVERYONE to call your representatives and ask them to vote NO on HR875. It should come up for a vote THIS WEEK!

We had a relaxing weekend. It was blessed. I was intrigued when I heard a friend of mine on Facebook, reference that she was making her own deoderant. The more I research and read about Aluminum and the links to it and breast cancer , I set out on a quest. There are several recipes. One was fairly elaborate, using cocoa butter, shea butter, etc. Then I stumbled upon, this recipe from Tammy. It is ALL natural and it uses all the ingredients I have here (it was also cheap to make! MUCH MUCH cheaper than buying it at the store!). There are only 3 ingredients: Cornstarch, baking soda and coconut oil! I have been using it for a few days now, and I will probably never go back! Only thing I will probably change is to add a TINY bit of essential oil to it, but that is it. I put it in a pint jar and WALLA!



My parents are in a Christian camping club through Good Sams. The boys go with their business, Leia's Kitchen and take their homemade dog treats, which were a HUGE hit last year. I was there and was asked to come back. I took my homemade bread, granola and other goodies. Well it is this next week. WE spent all of last week making dog biscuits. I started making my granola on Saturday and made 10 casserole dishes of it.

We had church yesterday and went to Aldi's afterwards. We had a great meal here at home and a good day. I made Neiman Marcus cookies and ground a ton of flour and put it in the freezer in preparation for today and tomorrow.




Today has been crazy with schooling and bread baking. Joshua's teacher called and she is having heart issues so she cancelled today, which was probably best for me. That way I don't have to leave. We started sprouting and planting our seeds for our garden (Yipee!). Tomorrow I will continue to bake bread, but somehow we will have to try to figure out how to fit in 3 dentist appts and 1 piano. Dunno how that will be done, ugh! Weds we will have an orthodontist appt, plus school, finishing baking, loading the car and driving to the show. Fun, fun!