Favorite Things...Vinegar

Vinegar. 
I rediscovered vinegar when The Man was diagnosed with an egg allergy.
We had to start keeping vinegar on hand to make a substitution mixture for eggs when baking.
It works.
Then he grew out of the allergy, and now I forget about this little trick for egg substitutions.  If only there was a trick to remind me when I run out of eggs so I don't have to run to the neighbor's house to beg for eggs. 
Once vinegar was in the house, I started to experiment a bit with it. 
I love it in my laundry.
My Sis-in-law told me she used it as fabric softner.
It works.  Put it in the rinse cycle.
When I use vinegar as fabric softner I get a bonus out of the deal...my clothes don't fade.
If you ever do a dying project at home, they always recommend a run through the washer with vinegar at least once to set the colors. 
Well vinegar will do that for your clothes. 
My daughter was the first to notice.  Cause she gets those t-shirts for this or that and they have to been worn every week.  Well hers wasn't fading like her friends.  Vinegar. 
It is, also, a disinfectant.  Sick kids/family.  Colored sheets?  Colored towels? Colored PJs?  Want to disinfect all this and whatever else the germy family has drooled and snotted all over.  Bet you don't want to use bleach on all of it.  Well vinegar won't hurt the color or fabric.  If I am feeling real germ-a-phobic, I will put it in the wash cycle and the rinse cycle. 
There are lots of recipes out there for window cleaners, multipurpose cleaners... I haven't gone there yet. 
Maybe one day, I will take a moment and give some of the other possibilities a try. 

Favorite Things....Baking Soda!

Kids walked in on me tonight.
As did the hubby.
They always seem to know I am in the bathroom.
Fortunately, I was dressed.
The floor was covered in Baking Soda.
This led to a lot of questions..
From the Dad: "Why? and where did you learn all of this?"
Cause it is non-abrasive and it works really well at cleaning up the hair goo residue off the floor.
And well, I had it in there to clean my hair with and so I had no more excuses to why I couldn't work on cleaning the floor.
This led to more questions.
Baking Soda is really good as a clarifier for your hair.  It removes hair goo residue. I think it helps with the chlorine from my swimming.  Deep from the recesses of my brain I say something akin to intelligence and scientific about the bonding capabilities of sodium with other elements like chlorine and forming salts, etc. 

Little Princess responds with: "Oh, okay.  Well the floor looks better.  Still a little dirty, but better. "
Yes, I know. But I am tired and ready for bed.  Maybe tomorrow.

Anyhow, one day I was reading the bottle of clarifying shampoo and noticed most of the ingredients were sodium based and remembered my chemistry class days.  I knew baking soda worked well at removing hair product build up. So far, it seems to be working pretty well with the chlorine from swimming.  I have done some research online and found a few sources that suggest baking soda as well, so there you go!  As a paste, baking soda does a really good job at cleaning hard stuff like the product goo off my bathroom floors.  I like it in the laundry, too.  It it really successful at getting some of the yuckiest odors out of my kiddos' clothes.  You can find it here on Amazon.


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