My choices are mine... no judgements here!

SOAPNUTS in the big bag, eucalyptus oil, Bosistos spray for stains, Bosistos liquid for heavy duty situations, Lectric soda in the big container..I use it for presoaking and keeping lights light)

So I proudly show you how few products I am now using to clean my families clothes (as said I have 3 kids…2 very active girls and a boy who spills food on everything!!!) My cousin told me all she uses in vinegar and bicarb to clean her house…and man... am I sooo impressed by that and might one day get there. She recently told me I freaked her out when she saw the pic I posted of my cleaning products last year when I started on this journey…. Cringe …I guess that was the effect I was going for…but I am a little embarrassed by how little thought I had actually been putting into all those choices. But you know what... one thing I am sure of is that we all do the best we can... and in this busy world it is not always possible to spend hours researching and trying different options when it comes to natural choices in our lifestyles...THANKGOD for the internet!!!! Also, as already admitted...I am obsessed with this at the moment...and are probably spending too much energy on this and not enough time on my health and exercise...so my priorities are mine...and your are yours...but hopefully seeing some of these choices I have made will help you cut out all the expense and researching and cut to the chase and see how they go for you.

I find I still need a few more tricks when washing clothes to get rid of those pesky stains and keep all 5 of us in clean, stain free clothes. Even with these things pictured…my clothes are certainly not up to an FBI blue light scanner…but I think they get us about town OK!! I am also not washing nappies BUT I have to get tradie stains and armpit smells clean and 3 year old girls paint splattered kindy clothes (and I tell you what I am sure that paint is not waterproof!!!) refreshed on a daily basis. We (like many families) faced the dreaded gastro crisis of 2011… and at the time I was still using most of my heavy duty products (NAPISAN, LIQUID WASHING POWDER ETC)…and if we were to face another OUTBREAK I am not sure if I wouldn’t be tempted to bring out the big guns and buy myself a packet of NAPISAN…however armed with the knowledge that I now have... I think Soapnuts, Lectric soda and bloody hot water with lots of sunlight would see us through...I might also use a bit of my BOSISTOS liquid and spray as an extra barrier ….and this will be the way I happily and proudly head in the future.