Homemade Glass Cleaner

        This is easy, cheap and I like that it's all natural since my daughter likes to press her face against the window waiting for daddy to get home!

Supplies:

1 cup vinegar

1 cup water

3 Tbs lemon juice

Spray bottle 

Mix ingredients in bottle and shake. Ready to go!

Homemade Shampoo/ Conditioner

         I have a really lot of curly hair and I have developed this recipe to work for me. I spent about $20 for all the ingredients and it has been 6 months and I still have tons more. For me an annual savings of approximately $200! Also this shampoo/conditioner works better then any kind I have ever bought.  I used to use twice as much conditioner as shampoo but now I just use this!

The Recipe:

6 cups water

1 Bar of moisturizing soap (I use dove)

60 drops Essential oil (I use rose- any kind is fine, choose a scent you love, I bought mine at Whole Foods)

6 Tbs Aloe Vera gel

6 tsp Vitamin E Oil (I found mine in the vitamin aisle at Target)

6 Tbs Apple Cider Vinegar

Makes about 1.5 Quarts

Directions:

 1) Grate the bar of soap.

 2)  Add 6 cups of water and put it on the stove on medium heat stirring continuously until the grated soap has dissolved completely (5-10 minutes).

 

 3) Remove from heat and let cool a little, then dd the rest of the ingredients. 

 

 4) Whisk the ingredients together.

 5) Store the shampoo/ conditioner in an air tight container, I use a recycled potato salad tub! The shampoo can come out watery so I use a spray bottle to apply it, shake before each use. Or keep it in a recycled shampoo bottle.

  6) All Done!

Using this or any natural shampoo is a different experience then regular shampoo. I recommend commenting to it for a week to start. This shampoo does not lather up and just feels a bit different, however it works (and smells) great!

Homemade Laundry Detergent

          One of the first things I decided to "DIY" to save money was laundry detergent. I have been using this recipe for about 6 months now. I found a few recipes online and a lot of them required making 5-10 gallons at a time, I couldn't imagine storing all that detergent for my family of 3. I wondered if I could make it a powdered detergent instead. I took just the main ingredients; Borax, Washing Soda and Soap and using the same proportions as the liquid detergent I created this powder detergent that is easy and cheap to make and has been working perfectly!

The Recipe:

     1 bar of soap (I have used two kinds - Dial Basics, and Palmolive Deodorizing both worked great, I believe any will work just avoid any moisturizing bar soap)

     1 cup Borax

     1 cup Washing Soda

48 Loads!

Instructions:

 1) Grate the bar of soap.

 

 2) Put the grated soap into a blender and grind into a fine powder.

 

 3) Mix the soap powder with 1 cup of the Borax and 1 cup of the Washing Soda.

 4) Store the detergent in an air tight container. Use 1 Tbs per load... REALLY that's all!

 5) Important tip... Make sure to add the detergent after the washer start's filling but before  the clothes go in.

 Happy Washing!