Review: Something I found immediately helpful
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2013
I'm old enough to remember when Windex TV commercials were trying to get post-war housewives to leave aside their old-fashioned cleaners and try something new that promised to make their windows sparkle. They showed a woman with wrikled nose carrying a bucket of ammonia and water from the kitchen to the window and dismissed vinegar as something for salads. Then, after those commercials had been off the air for several years, Windex announce a new,improved formula. Now it contained ammonia, that you could actually smell! I must have been in high school or college when Windex taught me that the new-fangled post-war cleaning products weren't any better than the old stuff! Of course, I didn't know how to use the old stuff, so I bought special window cleaners, floor cleaners, sink cleaners, toilet cleaners etc. etc. for years.I noticed this book and decided to check it out. I had already tried a few natural cleaner recipes with mixed results and thought it would be nice to get a few more. At about the same time, I grilled a sausage in a small skillet. The heat must have been too high, because by the time the sausage was cooked the charred juices were caked on the bottom of the pan. My normal procedure when I burn something like that is to boil water with some detergent in it. This time it didn't work. So my next procedure would be to get out the Comet or something and scrub.Instead, I mixed some vinegar and soda in the pan and let it bubble. Then I added some salt and scrubbed with that. It worked at least as easily. I'll probably use the rest of the Comet, and then never buy it again. And I'll be consulting this book or something else in the series whenever I run out of any of my other commercial products. After a while, I should have so few things under the sink that I can actually put my hands on what I need without hunting.