Carpeting. One of the coziest and most comforting inventions of modern civilization and also one of the hardest to keep clean.
Style, durability and practicality have been driving interior design toward wood floors lately, but wall-to-wall carpeting has its place and appeal also.
But how to have clean beautiful carpet and not use chemicals? Try this all-natural recipe: 2 cups of borax (find it in the laundry section of most grocery stores) plus 25 drops of your favorite scented pure essential oil (peppermint is great if you have pets!). Make sure they're mixed evenly together and simply shake the mixture onto your carpet. Let it sit for several minutes and then vacuum it up.
Easy as that!
Most modern synthetic cleaning products are based on age-old formulas using natural ingredients. They drew from these recipes because the chemistry was right! Of course, then they substituted the more expensive natural agents with cheaper sythesized chemicals and added LOTS of water and filler material.
Our freezers can get funky from time to time. An open container of baking soda is a big help. But when you need a little something extra, put some pure vanilla extract on a cotton rag and wipe down the walls and floor surface of the freezer. NOTE: It doesn't have to be the fancy Madagascar vanilla from Dean+DeLuca that you use for cooking. Some good old Schilling or McCormick's wi
