Cleaning supplies

Annpan · Post: # 55807Post **Annpan** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:27 pm

Where do you get yours???

I have spent an hour

trawling the internet looking for someone that sells all the bits and pieces. Essential oils, borax, bicarb, lemon juice, vinegar and ecover - I am trying to find it all under one roof (so to speak)

I am making quite alot of my own home-made cleaning sprays and dishwashing stuff these days... what I don't make I am trying to buy ecover in bulk

Feeling smug but can't seem to find a decent supplier. Summer naturals was the closest I got.

Any Ideas?

the.fee.fairy · Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:57 pm

www.natureschoiceuk.co.uk
www.ethicalsupermarket.com

Ebay...

Cornelian · Post: # 55840Post **Cornelian** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:10 pm

All you really need is white vinegar and bicarb of soda - which is all I use to clean my house.

red · Post: # 55845Post **red** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:47 pm

do what I do - don't clean your house.

although i have started to take my sheep-pooed boots off when i come into the house...

Wombat · Post: # 55852Post **Wombat** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:35 pm

Ewwww!

Hey, Red! You know it's time to clean the house when you walk out a couple of inches taller than you walked in........

red · Post: # 55854Post **red** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:45 pm

ah and I just thought it was olde worlde low ceilings! *thats* where I am going wrong

Cassiepod · Tue May 01, 2007 11:37 am

I got Borax and some other traditional cleaning things from Boots the Chemist. Bicarb is bought in large quntiites from a local green grocer, vinegar from any shop and that's basically it. Whilst you're in Boots you can get the essential oils too.

Ranter · Post: # 55960Post **Ranter** » Tue May 01, 2007 9:28 pm

I get 1kg boxes of bicarb & borax from Wilko's. Does mean going into town to get them though. Both are produced by dripak, think they will deliver if bulk orders are made through their website. I just don't have space to store bulk purchases, especially as I don't clean very often, so the 1kg boxes last me a good long time...

ina · Post: # 55967Post **ina** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:15 am

red wrote:do what I do - don't clean your house.

although i have started to take my sheep-pooed boots off when i come into the house...

You're a man/woman (

?) after my heart - and I must admit, I didn't even take my wellies off when I had to rush into the kitchen earlier on to get something...

When I have visitors, I insist they keep their boots on. Otherwise the socks would get too dirty.
A friend of mine even said - her's was the only kitchen she knew where she had to ask visitors to put wellies ON when they come in... Must say in my friend's defence that the culprits are her husband and son! She tries her best.

Millymollymandy · Wed May 02, 2007 6:15 am

Oh, the benefits of having a mud room.

runs off and hides for being so smug!

Stonehead · Post: # 55994Post **Stonehead** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:42 am

ina wrote:
red wrote:do what I do - don't clean your house.

although i have started to take my sheep-pooed boots off when i come into the house...
You're a man/woman ( ?) after my heart - and I must admit, I didn't even take my wellies off when I had to rush into the kitchen earlier on to get something...

That's the upside and the downside of our place.

Someone had the good sense to put a hard-tiled floor down in the rear entranceway, the kitchen and the dining room. You can even hose it out as it's laid over concrete.

Someone else later put carpet down in the bathroom (yeuch!) and cream carpet in the living room and bedrooms. Needless to say, the carpet is now grey-brown and patterned.

Paddy's mum · Wed May 02, 2007 9:07 am

I always say that I know when my kitchen floor needs cleaning when I either stick to it or it crunches as I walk across it!

It's not my fault, honest - I blame the three dogs!!

Annpan · Post: # 56015Post **Annpan** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:34 am

I am a bit of a clean freak

In the last few years I have stoped using chemicals though

I go through hot water and elbow grease like it is going out of fashion and I do use quite a bit of lemon juice, bicarb and vinegar.

Buying form boots is about twice the price of buying at summer naturals and I don't drive so can't easily get to town for supplies. The links fee.fairy put up didn't work

but I will keep looking.

Karen_D · Post: # 56017Post **Karen_D** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:46 am

I'm lucky in that a local independent hardware store stocks dri-pak borax and bicarbonate. I can get gallon containers of white vinegar from either a local farm shop or the Asian supermarket where I get my spices, rice and lentils from.

You used to be able to get borax and the like from high street chemists but most don't stock it now - or the larger packs of bicarbonate or hydrogen peroxide. It seems they only dish out branded medicines and toiletries now.

red · Post: # 56025Post **red** » Wed May 02, 2007 11:38 am

ina wrote:
red wrote:do what I do - don't clean your house.

although i have started to take my sheep-pooed boots off when i come into the house...
You're a man/woman ( ?) after my heart - and I must admit, I didn't even take my wellies off when I had to rush into the kitchen earlier on to get something...

woman - for the record.
Nah I don't always manage to take mine off either..dpends how bad they are - but we have nasty lino on kitchen floor that I dont care about, and you can sweep the worst debris now and then... maybe...

Millymollymandy wrote:Oh, the benefits of having a mud room.

oh interesting.. you call it 'mud room?' we call it 'kitchen'

Annpan wrote:I am a bit of a clean freak

well you do have a baby, even I was better then - but now I have a teenager..