first, the good. i've found a wonderful dish washing liquid (for those of you who do dishes by hand like myself...) - it is the seventh generation brand which is vegetable based, not petroleum based, plus it is dye and perfume free. i haven't tried the laundry detergent yet, but i intend to next time i run out of all free and clear. we have hard hard hard water, and soaps, for me, just don't make suds. so, i end up having to use way too much soap in the sink just to make the bubbles (which makes me think that i'm cleaning better i suppose). well this stuff just takes a dab of soap to make a sink full of bubbles. and so long as you wash the dishes promptly, the bubbles will still be there. however if you let it sit for an hour, the bubbles all disappear. BUT, the water still feels soapy. i love it. i bought a bottle from harris teeter a couple of weeks ago to put in our bathroom for the "bottle sink". it cost the same as a large bottle of dawn ($2.99 i think), so i thought i'd try it for k's bottles. and it worked! plus it is "good" for the environment - maybe i'm evening out karma since i've been tossing recyclables these days... the garage is just too hot and cat-poop-stinky to walk out and put the recyclables in their proper place!
the ugly: food lion toilet cleaner. boy this stuff could peel the rust off of blackbeard's ship. for real - this stuff really works well on iron/rust stains, plus other nasty stuff (bacteria, dirt, grime, etc.). we have a bad iron problem with our well water, and it (the water) tends to stain everything orange. nothing will get it off, not bleach (obviously), not comet, not iron-out. but i noticed that the FOOD LION BRAND toilet cleaner (not any other brand has worked) got out the orange in the toilet, so i tried it in our shower. i am embarrassed to even show these before/after pictures (which i did color enhance them, so you can really see the difference - and please note our shower is a beige one, not a white one, so that why it still looks dingy! never ever again will we get any beige colored fixtures...). let me assure you that even though our shower was orange, it was clean... but now i can make it LOOK clean too! and please also note that i've only washed 2 of the walls (not the floor) as this stuff stinks, plus i'm probably not even supposed to be around such a bad chemical - it has horrible fumes AND when i go over it with the scrubber thing sometimes it'll splash on me. so, i've only cleaned 2 of the 3 walls, plus the bottom of the one seen in the photo... again, remember my shower was not dirty, it was only stained from the iron. but, now i have something that works! (really i am so embarrassed to show these pictures, but for the sake of "selling" you something that works... i will!)
dude... when we lived in MO, we had this black line in our toilets that wouldn't go away. Didn't matter what I did. I was talking to our BN secretary one day and she told me about some stuff from --- none other than -- the Dollar Tree. Worked MIRACLES! It was one of those horrible fumes, had to leave the vent on with the door closed for 2 hours after cleaning, but it worked. I can't remember the name of it... I will try and remember.
ReplyDeleteOh... and the Seventh Generation stuff rocks. All of it. You can get it here at the commissary pretty cheap! And a little goes a very long way (plus it smells wonderfully, doesn't it?!?)
Thanks for the tips. Food Lion, huh? Who woulda thunk it?
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