Category Archives: Cleaning

Self-Contained Compost Bin for Pet-Waste

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Cat

By Cat, March 2020 I just learned about this from Dr. Mercola’s Healthy Pets website (1a). Instead of polluting the earth’s lands and water with more non-compostable plastic bags, you can build a simple composter for your pet’s poop. From … Continue reading →

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Making real soap at home

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Cat

By Cat, May 2008, moved to it’s own page July 2018 (Photo, right, from Wikimedia Commons) Real soap, such as what you can make at home, has many advantages over commercial “soaps” that are not soap at all, but rather … Continue reading →

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Chantal enamel on steel cookware: use and care

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Cat

By Cat, April 25, 2017 (Photo, right, by Chantal Corporation; item and link no longer available) I will be doing a 90-day protocol to heal from autoimmune thyroid, and one of the recommendations is to use enamel on steel or … Continue reading →

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Spring Cleaning: how to avoid potentially deadly hantavirus infection

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Cat

By Catherine Haug, April 13, 2017 (posting originally published on The EssentiaList, the community/sustainability blog for which I am the editor) Updated Oct 2018 to provide information on using bleach to disinfect the area being cleaned. Daily Inter Lake had … Continue reading →

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Kitchen Hint: keeping cleaning sponges fresh with real soap

Posted on September 11, 2016 by Cat

By Catherine Haug, Sept 30, 2015 (Photo, right, from Amazon (4)) Do you use sponges in your kitchen and bathroom for cleanup jobs? Synthetic sponges tend to get rather smelly after only a few uses, even if you rinse them … Continue reading →

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Homemade Cleaning Supplies, etc.

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Cat

By Cat, May 2008 (Photo, right, by S. Tomkins at her presentation for Essential Stuff Project) NOTE: The section on Household Pest Control has been moved to Household Cleaning and Pest Control Menu. In the not too distant past, homemakers routinely made their own … Continue reading →

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