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Getting Essential Oils into your Home Cleaning Supplies

By: Erica Allen

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Aligning with Cleaning Products and Using Essential Oils

It's nobody's idea of fun to think about the what traditional (read: toxic) cleaning products do to our water supply and environment. it's even less fun to contemplate what those same poisonous chemicals do to our skin.

Walking down the cleaning aisle of even my natural foods market, the choice of oversized plastic bottles of cleaning fluids is staggering. Laundry Powder, dishwasher detergent, hand soap, dishwashing soap, and I need one of all of them. My poor grandmother, how did she keep her house so clean without all these options?

Few goddesses I know care to spend too much energy on the subject of cleaning.

Fact: getting clean is GOOD for our health, right? Fact: we need cleaning products

You may be one of those people who is still buying those unnaturally bright bottles filled with chemical smells thinking you are buying the best thing to get to clean. Until recently I, too, was one of those folks, until I realized that those 30 syllable chemicals are known carcinogens, toxic to both our bodies, our water supply, and the environment. Now that's scary!

Taking a trip down the cleaning aisle of your nearest natural foods market yields an equally perplexing and wide array of plastic white bottles and kraft paper boxes. Even if they are less toxic (which most are, but not all) you're still filling your recycling bin to bursting and spending money unnecessarily on redundant products.

The truth is these ingredients are not expensive, nor need they be complicated. But who wants to make their own products? You do, Sister, and I'm here to tell you why! Cleaning doesn't have to mean fake pine smells masking harsh chemicals, or unscented, low-performance alternatives. A few ingredients and a few minutes are all that's keeping you from environmentally sound, super-economical, and best of all, healthful essence-infused soaps and cleaners that you will LOVE using. So you can merrily skip right past the cleaning aisle and spend the money on something meaningful, like, say, chocolate!

So let's get cookin'. Go to the store and get three things: baking soda (a few pounds), borax* (a 4lb box), and a gallon (be brave – you'll use it all and it's much cheaper in bulk) unscented liquid castile soap. You'll of course need containers for everything, and therapeutic grade essential oils, which act both as bliss-creators and actual cleaning agents. There. You're almost done. *important: store borax (like all volatile products, including essential oils) out of reach of children and pets. Though naturally occurring (a compound of the mineral boron), it can be toxic if ingested.

Recipies and Ingredients

Laundry detergent: 1 part baking soda, 1 part borax. Essential oils: equal parts lavender and eucalyptus (roughly 10 drops per 4 oz.). Optional: 1 part liquid castile soap. Mix ingredients together gently in a 32 oz.-ish glass or metal container (take care to avoid breathing in powder) with a secure lid. Washing time!

Hand soap: Unscented liquid castile soap. Essential oils: 10 drops tea tree, 10 drops cedarwood, 5 drops peppermint – up to 20 drops per 8 oz. container. Optional: 1/2 part aloe vera gel (to soften).mDirections: fill your pump bottle with soap and essential oils. Shake shake shake.

Dishwashing soap: Liquid castile soap.Essential oils: tea tree, lemon and peppermint in equal parts, up to 20 drops. How: Combine soap and essential oils. Shake and serve.

Dishwasher 'detergent': 1 part baking soda, 1 part borax. Essential oils: equal parts eucalyptus & lavender (10-20 drops per cup). Optional: add distilled vinegar in place of rinse agent How: Gently mix. Done.

Air freshener/disinfectant: Distilled water. Essential oils: 20 drops tea tree, 20 drops cedarwood, 10 drops peppermint for a large pump spray bottle. How to: Fill the spray bottle with water; add oils and shake. Spray and be happy!

You can modify every one of these recipes with great results. Choose what resonates for you and your sense of smell, not what large companies say smells clean. Aligning with plant medicine, even with cleaning products, means refining your natural sense of smell, and bringing health and happiness, even to the simple task of cleaning!

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