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Eco-Friendly Cleaning Is The *Most* Fun!

I kid you not, I have just had a blast! I am now bereft because my wee abode only boasts three plug-holes and I am considering going door to door with my cup and ingredients offering to do domestics for free.

You see I am a child of consumerism, by the time I came along marketing had become big business and the simple pleasures in life had been obscured by catchphrases teaching us that the only way to domesticity was the use of the latest triple action wonder product. The problem is that your average triple action wonder product underplays the labels and symbols hinting at the hazardous industrial chemicals stashed in your wee pink bottle. Carcinogens, hormone disruptors, neurotoxic solvents and mood-altering chemicals abound - and that's just your shampoo, never mind the stuff you pour down your bog once a week.

So my quest for a chemical free life has just become exciting - almost as frothy as the language I may use for my NaNoWriMo novel! I decided to clean my drains. Now I don't think my drains are particularly dirty - the one in the kitchen has some brand new bits - and none of them are problematic. But I had all these old skool things and a method so I decided to give it a blast.

First, the method

Combine 1/3 of a cup of bicarbonate of soda with 1/3 of a cup of vinegar in a large container then quickly pour it down the plug.

If you read the link you may feel that there is some time delay before the fizzing starts indicated by the paragraph length and also the huge gap between paragraphs. This is not so. I put my vinegar into my cup and then poured my bicarbonate of soda in. Luckily the cup was vaguely over the sink because the explosion of foam was instantaneous!!! I whooped in shock!!! What fun!!

I immediately ran to the kitchen plug to try it again, then the bath had to have a go...

I think of all the years my mother spent arguing with me, trying to cajole me into helping with housework - how depressing the idea of a cloth and cleaner seemed. If only she had kept to the old methods and bribed me with this - "If you do the hoovering I'll let you clean the drains with bicarb and vinegar" - I would have been Little Miss Domestic!

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Posted on October 31, 2007 in Environment, Homing, Sustainable Living.

One Response to “Eco-Friendly Cleaning Is The *Most* Fun!”

  1. seventh sister says:
    November 1, 2007 at 11:20 pm

    I have tried this before but I just poured the bi-carb down the sink then poured in the vinegar. Then I put the stopper in the sink to try and direct the action down into the pipe.

    I try to use eco-friendly cleaners as much as possible because we get our water from a well in our yard and even before we lived here, Ii never liked the smell of a lot of regular cleaners.

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