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May 28, 2009

Make your own non-toxic bathtub cleaner

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Ring around the tub is a bummer, but toxic bathtub cleaners are even more offensive. It’s easy to make your own non-toxic cleaner with a few simple ingredients. I swiped the following recipe from Natural Home Magazine:

Ingredients:

1 cup baking soda
½ cup Castile liquid soap
5-10 drops of antibacterial essential oil (try lavender or tea tree oils)

Directions:

1. Pour baking soda into a medium size bowl.
2. While stirring, add the Castile soap a little at a time. Stop adding and stirring once your mixture resembles frosting.
3. Mix in a few drops of oil.
4. Get to cleaning.

You can store this cleaner in an airtight container for up to one year.

(Image courtesy of terri_tu)

Posted by Christy Zuccarini at 2:56 PM | | Comments (0)
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Tim WheelerTim Wheeler reports on the environment and Chesapeake Bay. A native of West Virginia, he has focused mainly on Maryland's environment since moving here in 1983. Along the way, he's crewed aboard a skipjack in the bay, canoed under city streets up the Jones Fall from the Inner Harbor, and gone deep underground in a western Maryland coal mine. He loves seafood, rambles in the country and good stories. He hopes to share some here.

Contributor Christy Zuccarini has been blogging about the local DIY craft scene for a year for Baltimoresun.com. She brings her pespective on all things handmade to B'More Green, where she will highlight projects you can do yourself as well as crafters who are integrating sustainable methods and materials.
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