Enviormental Housekeeping

One Small Change was the name of a project circulating on the web last year. Every month one was to make "one small change" towards the better, towards conscious living. We have done a few major changes and actually turned them into habits. This is the only way to make changes,  if you take upon yourself too many changes at once they will drown out and become nothing.

We have converted to using wash nuts full time. I mentioned these before in an earlier post, but now I can say for sure they work. It is just as easy, just as clean and actually cheaper. AND they work on everything. Wool, silk, cloth diapers. You name it.

Check out our house blog for more info on nuts in Norwegian, and where to buy them. 

News break

Which would be a break for me, from reading the news. Life is great as a student. Time alone, sun streaming through the windows, piles of books, articles, adventure and opinion just waiting.

Children running around at kindergarten and husband at work.

Important tip and this months One Small Change for the benefit of ourselves, our environment and those around us: The Washing Nuts.

Here is a link for you Norwegians on where to buy them. They are good for the environment, good for your skin, for your clothes. Everything. And they are cheap, fair trade, organic, and they WORK. Believe me, I just washed a load of BAD cloth diapers. They are clean: smell clean, look clean, feel clean.

It is a small nut from India and Nepal, the shells contain saponin, which turns into soap when in contact with warm water, Been used for eons as natural soap.

Never again will I use chemical substances for washing anything. Totally unnecessary.

Give it a try, you have nothing to lose.