Clorox Discloses Full List of Toxic Ingredients
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journey11
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Didn't find a link to the list? So are they talking just about additives and fragrances they use? I just buy the regular bleach, usually off-brand and find that I never use it on laundry anymore. I've started making homemade laundry detergent and it cleans so well that I don't need the bleach--which just makes my socks and towels fall apart sooner anyway. The only thing I use bleach for is disinfecting stuff, like when we do our butchering.
Oh, and another cool trick that will keep you from having to use bleach on your whites is to hang them on the line (after washing) in the afternoon sun and let the dew fall on them overnight. The next afternoon, all the stains are *magically* gone (something about enzymes in the dew reacting with the sunlight, I'm told) and your whites are brighter. Of course, this only works Spring-Summer-Fall when the temps are right. My mom thought she "discovered" this, but when she told my grandma about it, my grandma said that she and my great-grandma always used to lay their pillow cases out on the lawn overnight and that's how they whitened them. This trick works great on baby stains too!
Who needs stinky old bleach! LOL
Oh, and another cool trick that will keep you from having to use bleach on your whites is to hang them on the line (after washing) in the afternoon sun and let the dew fall on them overnight. The next afternoon, all the stains are *magically* gone (something about enzymes in the dew reacting with the sunlight, I'm told) and your whites are brighter. Of course, this only works Spring-Summer-Fall when the temps are right. My mom thought she "discovered" this, but when she told my grandma about it, my grandma said that she and my great-grandma always used to lay their pillow cases out on the lawn overnight and that's how they whitened them. This trick works great on baby stains too!
Who needs stinky old bleach! LOL
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Yaaa! I knew that forgetting to bring the wash in on hectic evenings
could somehow be good!
Now I can do it on purpose!
:coolsun
could somehow be good!
Now I can do it on purpose!
:coolsun
Sunlight bleaches things b/c of it's radiation, nothing to do with enzymes in dew.
journey11
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Here's a mention of it I found online...
I don't know how it works, but it does. It takes out those weird baby burp stains that are so tough to get out too. I've gotten stains out of hand-me-down clothes with this method before, even if they've been washed and through the dryer previously.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080220033002AAHIAWV
I don't know how it works, but it does. It takes out those weird baby burp stains that are so tough to get out too. I've gotten stains out of hand-me-down clothes with this method before, even if they've been washed and through the dryer previously.
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vfem
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Because nature is amazing, and we can't even beat it with our thousand of compound chemicals. Love Mother N!
ninnymary
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Journey..Can you give us the recipe on how to make laundry detergent? If there are any special ingredients, where do you buy them?journey11 said:
Thanks
Mary
