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This past weekend I dropped my daughter at college this is her 1^st year. When we arrived at her empty dorm room, I realized we needed to go shopping for some basic essentials. I was looking at all the different cleaning supplies, and it dawned on me that I could not just buy any old thing due to her roommates. One thing about going away to school is the living conditions you have to be mindful of people and different allergies. I decide to find the recipes I had that non-toxic for cleaning items and thought I would share them with all of you.

Natural Carpet Deodorizer

10 Drops Tea Tree

10 Drops Lemon

20 Drops Lavender

1 16 Ounce Box of Baking Soda or Borax

Directions:

Add the baking soda to a large bowl and then add the Essential Oils. Be sure to

Mix the oils into the baking soda well. Since Lemon Essential oil is normally

Yellow, it is important that it is mixed well into the baking soda so that no

Undiluted Lemon oil stains your carpet. This blend may be adapted to use your

Favorite Essential oils, but try to add Essential oils that offer antibacterial and

Disinfectant properties to give the deodorizer an added benefit.

Easy air freshener spray

10 to 12 Drops of Essential oil(s)  

1 Cup of water

Place ingredients in a spray mist bottle. Shake well and

Spray fragrance in the air or in a specific area

Antibacterial Surface Spray

100 ml distilled water

100 ml of rubbing Alcohol .” Do not use Isopropyl as it is derived from petroleum.

50 ml of White Vinegar

30 drops of essential oils

Make a blend of a blend of Clove, Lavender Orange Oregano, Pine and Rosemary essential oils.

Blend all ingredients together. Shake before use. Store in a cool dark location. Shelf life up to 12 months.
Use on counters and surfaces to clean and help eliminate harmful bacteria without the use of toxic chemicals. Keep out of reach of pets and children.

The best thing about almost all of these recipes is that you can found the ingredients already in your home or your local grocery store. You best believe her next care package will have a few items like to this in it

Ok this is what I have been working on lately… I have been reading up on ways to detox the body. I have found some very interesting information on charcoal. Charcoal has been used back to the time of Hippocrates who lived from 460 to 370 B.C. Charcoal can absorb up to 250 to 350 times its own weight. Charcoal can be applied to the skin for bug bites and infected wounds.

Now I do know for a fact that charcoal works on bug bites. My youngest son, (who seems to always get into stuff), was bitten by something. My son had a hung red, swollen painful blister on his arm. I applied a charcoal poultice made from water and charcoal powder and had him go to bed. The next morning the blister was gone and so was all the swelling.

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about activated charcoal on a medical application…

Medical applications

Activated charcoal is used to treat poisonings and overdoses following oral ingestion. It is thought to bind to poison and prevent its absorption by the gastrointestinal tract. In cases of suspected poisoning, medical personnel administer activated charcoal on the scene or at a hospital’s emergency department. Dosing is usually empirical at 1 gram/kg of body weight (for adolescents or adults, give 50–100 g), usually given only once, but depending on the drug taken, it may be given more than once. In rare situations, activated charcoal is used in Intensive Care to filter out harmful drugs from the blood stream of poisoned patients. Activated charcoal has become the treatment of choice for many poisonings.

 Therefore, after I read that information I started thinking if charcoal binds to poison inside the body it has to do the same on the outside. I made a detox soap using charcoal. Actually, charcoal has been used in soap in places like China for years.  So far, I have noticed, how it absorbs oil on my face and helps get rid of pimples, it also gives my skin an extra squeaky-clean feeling.