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Monday, July 4, 2011

Simple, Easy and Cheap... Soaps

If your following the path to becoming prepared storing the following items is a must. All of them are inexpensive, extremely useful and have a loooong shelf life.. except the lemons of course. Vinegar is also good for pickling, canning, recipes, salad. Apple cider vinegar is another story so long, It’ll have to have it’s own page.

• Vinegar… may smell a little weird, but vinegar can handle everything from dishes to laundry and even weeds. Vinegar is the wonder ingredient in our house.

• Baking soda… eliminates odors, helps with stains, and ants hate it.

• Borax… is a mineral salt that beats bleach as a toilet cleaner and is also useful for scrubbing walls. It works with laundry and dishes, too.

• Fels-Naptha soap... My grandmother always had a bar of Fels-Naptha under the sink for hand wash.. grated it is the wonder ingredient in clothes detergent "use this in addition to a bunch of our other expensive products, like Purex!"

• Rubbing alcohol… Works as a disinfectant and a great glass cleaner. It also gets grime off plastic and metal surfaces like patio furniture or bathroom fixtures.

• Lemon juice... This cuts through dish grease and is an ingredient for homemade furniture polish -- but it's not the easiest thing to preserve long-term.

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