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House Cleaning Tips - Keep Within Reach Of Children by Nick Vassilev
One of
the wonderful things about natural cleaners is that they are safe for children
to use. Most of the ingredients used to make these home-made cleaning products
don�t need warnings on the label to store out of reach of children and to use
the product in an adequately ventilated area; neither does it need the number of
the local poisons centre in case of swallowing. And this has another advantage:
if the product is child-safe, you can encourage children to help with the
cleaning with minimal risk to small systems (and young, delicate
skin).
The same applies to most organic pest control methods for the
garden.
However, it is important here to add that essential oils should
always be kept out of the reach of children and that they should not be taken
internally. While children can certainly use natural house cleaning products
made with essential oils, any child under the age of eight should not be allowed
to use the oils themselves (a responsible eight year old who understands that
they shouldn�t eat the essential oil or use half a bottle at a time can have a
go, however). And the usual first aid advice applies for anything other than
water: if you get something in your eye, flush it out with cold running
water.
Some natural home products (and methods) can be made by children
with a minimum of supervision.
Soap Snot: There�s no denying that the gel
made by pouring boiling water (adult supervision required for under 10s) onto
chopped or grated soap has a consistency like thick runny mucus � sorry! Once
the gel has cooled, it can be used to wash floors; wash soft toys, woolly
jerseys and delicate underpants (not that your children are likely to have
delicate underpants); and to get aphids off the roses � put a mixture of the
soap snot and water into a water pistol and sent out your young SAS squad to gun
down the aphids lurking in the roses. Soap snot also has a slippery texture that
is quite fun to handle. Soap snot can also be used as shampoo and as liquid soap
post by haiyan701. Make up an extra big batch for a �messy play day� or as an
alternative to a food fight � the kids get to make a huge slithery, slimy mess
that has a high gross-out factor but is very easy to clean up.
Vinegar
spray: Mix equal parts of vinegar and water to make a glass cleaning spray and
mould killer � and an after-shampoo rinse. Add a little essential oil, and the
spray doubles as an air freshener for the toilet.
Baking soda paste:
Combine baking soda and a little water to make a paste that�s suitable for
cleaning down the fridge, inside the microwave and around the bath Charlotte
Olympia Birthday Libra Zodiac Smoking Slipper In Pistachio. You can also
clean your teeth with it, but this tastes pretty awful! If the baking soda spray
is applied quite thickly and left to dry, spray it with the vinegar spray to see
it fizzing.
Take them alive: Send small children to hunt down snails and
caterpillars infesting your vegetables. Put them in a container and either feed
them to chickens, if you have them, or take them to the nearest park with a pond
and feed them to the ducks Charlotte Olympia. Ducks don�t
just eat sandwich crusts! Small fingers can also remove aphids by hand, if the
child in question has the patience.
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