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Aromatherapy Recipe by Rev. Carol A. Ingle (Raven)
Green Cleaning with Pure Essential Oils
The best way to make sure your living space is clean and healthy is to use safe, natural cleaning products you create yourself, using natural and inexpensive ingredients you can pick up at any natural grocery store. It's cost-effective, not difficult and, like the task of spring cleaning itself, it's satisfying and rewarding.
Essential oils have potent antimicrobial effects along with their clean, pleasant natural aromas. Especially good are: Lemon(clean, sweet, uplifting scent; deodorizing), Peppermint (minty, fresh; air purifier; mild pest repellent),Eucalyptus and Tea Tree (air and surface sanitizers; fresh, therapeutic aromas).
Here's a shopping list of key ingredients for making your own homecare products:
Essential Oils
Baking Soda (Sodium Bicarbonate) -- Gently abrasive scouring powder, odor absorber and an excellent base for making your own cleaning preparations.
Washing Soda (Sodium Carbonate)
Borax (Sodium Borate) -- Natural mineral compound, laundry booster, multipurpose cleanser, fungicide/insecticide.
White Distilled Vinegar (Acetic Acid)
Distilled water -- Clean, distilled water acts as a better carrier and dirt solvent. Tap water will often contain salts and minerals that can lead to spotting and build-up.
Spray bottles
Natural bristle scrubbing brushes
Squeeze bottles
Cotton dusting cloth
Hemp or Jute fiber scrubbing cloth
Tote to put it all in
Follow these simple recipes for making your own basic homecare products:
Basic Spray Cleaner
2 cups water
1/2 teaspoon sodium borate
1/4 teaspoon liquid soap
36 drops essential oil
Which Oils? Cleansing & Purifying essential oils: lemon, tea tree, eucalyptus, spike lavender.
Gentle Scouring Cream
1/2 cup baking soda
Liquid soap
18 drops essential oil
Add essential oils to baking soda and blend. Next, incorporate the liquid soap, several drops at a time, until a creamy paste forms.
Which Oils? Oils that brighten: lemon, lemongrass, grapefruit.
Carpet Deodorizing Powder
1 cup baking soda
18 drops essential oil
Carpet Cleaner
1 cup baking soda
1 teaspoon liquid soap
18 drops essential oil
Which Oils? Deodorizing essential oils: bergamot, coriander seed, lavandin.
Wooden Furniture Polishing Oil
3 tablespoons vinegar
1/2 teaspoon jojoba oil
10 drops lemon essential oil
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Patchwork Merchant Mercenaries had its humble beginnings as an idea of a few artisans and craftsmen who enjoy performing with live steel fighting. As well as a patchwork quilt tent canvas. Most had prior military experience hence the name.
Patchwork Merchant Mercenaries.
Vendertainers that brought many things to a show and are know for helping out where ever they can.
As well as being a place where the older hand made items could be found made by them and enjoyed by all.
We expanded over the years to become well known at what we do. Now we represent over 100 artisans and craftsman that are well known in their venues and some just starting out. Some of their works have been premiered in TV, stage and movies on a regular basis.
Specializing in Medieval, Goth , Stage Film, BDFSM and Practitioner.
Patchwork Merchant Mercenaries a Dept of, Ask For IT was started by artists and former military veterans, and sword fighters, representing over 100 artisans, one who made his living traveling from fair to festival vending medieval wares. The majority of his customers are re-enactors, SCAdians and the like, looking to build their kit with period clothing, feast gear, adornments, etc.
Likewise, it is typical for these history-lovers to peruse the tent (aka mobile store front) and, upon finding something that pleases the eye, ask "Is this period?"
A deceitful query!! This is not a yes or no question. One must have a damn good understanding of European history (at least) from the fall of Rome to the mid-1600's to properly answer. Taking into account, also, the culture in which the querent is dressed is vitally important. You see, though it may be well within medieval period, it would be strange to see a Viking wearing a Caftan...or is it?
After a festival's time of answering weighty questions such as these, I'd sleep like a log! Only a mad man could possibly remember the place and time for each piece of kitchen ware, weaponry, cloth, and chain within a span of 1,000 years!! Surely there must be an easier way, a place where he could post all this knowledge...
Traveling Within The World is meant to be such a place. A place for all of these artists to keep in touch and directly interact with their fellow geeks and re-enactment hobbyists, their clientele.
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