Eco-life workshop 1, making a hand sanitiser
How to make a hand sanitiser Most hand sanitisers contain around 70% alcohol. It is advisable to use at least 80% vol vodka to kill germs. You won’t find vodka with a higher alcohol content in a normal shop. The ratio of liquids could be 80% alcohol and 20% water. So, depending on the size […]
Eco-life workshop 2, homemade hand cream
Homemade hand cream is good to make of coconut oil. We get shea butter in Örreke from the village of Kongo, Ghana, with the help of Mondo NGO. In addition, you need some vegetable oil. I had olive oil, grape seed oil and almond oil at home. Be sensible and careful when adding fragrance oil […]
Eco-life workshop 3, homemade deodorant
Store-bought deodorants contain a lot of additives that are not good for our bodies. You can make deodorant at home without additives. It’s especially easy to make it with a cream tea. If you’ve made a large amount of cream in advance, leave 10 g of whipped cream in the mixing jar. For deodorant, it’s […]
Eco-life workshop 4, Home cleaning products
It’s easy to make window cleaner, all-purpose cleaner, scouring paste and dishwashing liquid from ingredients found in your kitchen. You need soap, baking soda, salt, vinegar, citric acid and water. The recipes come from my mother. The ingredients have all been tried in our kitchen, so I dare to recommend them. Why buy cleaning products […]
Let’s make some real soap!
Örreke and Let’s go to Zero! exhibition invited Relumee and a few friends to come over and try out how to make ‘real’ soap. Let’s make a traditional soap! author: Katarina Papp, Let’s go to Zero! Usually, I have made my soap from a ready-made soap mix, simply because I already know how to make […]
What’s in the soap
Can you imagine a day without soap? Probably quite difficult. Although soap has been around for over 4500 years, it hasn’t always been as obvious a cleaner as it is today. Sappo mountain Legend has it that the soap is named after the Sappo hill near Rome. It was the site of an animal sacrifice. […]
Wrap your sandwich into self-made honeyfabric
Or hang a half apple wrapped in honeydew in the fridge. No drying out or anything. Put it on a morel jug, no flies can get at it. In all the sorry course the world is taking with its endless plastic pollution, global warming and depleting supplies of clean water, it might feel good to […]
How to make simple window decorations for spring holidays
Over the weekend, Mia and I made window decorations from coloured paper. Folding the paper was a real challenge, as straight fold lines are important. It took a while, but we managed. Now we’ve almost got the rooms decorated, and we can undertake the egg painting at our leisure this weekend: the moss and onion […]
Marzipan and Easter
Who of us doesn’t remember the marzipan pancakes of our childhood that sat in a display case and were never eaten. Some, of course, had teeth marks on the back because it was quite difficult not to nibble on the sweet stuff. I had a spotted rooster, a chicken and a kitten in the cupboard. […]
The eco-life of the Soviet era – a dishcloth from a rug box and bread for head washing.
Nowadays, we talk a lot about living in a packaging-free world, consuming home-grown food, giving a new life to second-hand clothes, reducing paper waste, not wasting food, avoiding toxic detergents, etc. In the light of all this, when I think back to my own childhood, this is how we – the 50s of today – […]
