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 […]
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 – […]
