Category: Whatever Wednesdays
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Whatever Wednesday: Household Scrubbing and Drains
Here, look at this pretty photo of Star Island’s research center, as my bathtub isn’t that exciting. Why not start the cleaning series with the deep cleaning of scrubbing? This is a method more than a recipe, and works on bathtubs as well as kitchen and bathroom sinks. Now if you do some searching online,…
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Whatever Wednesday: Good Green Cleaning for People with Allergies
New Year, new resolutions, right? I have been transitioning to chemical-free cleaning for the past few years. When I moved into my current place, I spent some house with ammonia-based cleaner in the kitchen, and while it needed the heavy-duty, chemical-laden cleaner, I felt awful afterwards. Since then, I’ve been making my own. So we’re…
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A Year In Review, 2012
First full year post-apocalypse. How have we done? Let’s chat. MK’s Take: I know that we haven’t been online for a year, but the original genesis for this blog was a discussion Denise and I had sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas of 2011. I was really unhappy with the allergy diagnosis. I felt like I…
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Whatever Wednesday Cookbook Review: Whole Grain Breads By Machine or Hand
This is not a book for those of you who can’t have gluten. This book does have five recipes in a chapter entitled “Nonwheat Breads” but two of them have spelt, and I think that spelt is still problematic for some folks. In any case, this review is geared for those who can eat wheat…
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Whatever Wednesday Product Review: Earth Balance Mindful Mayo
Mary Kate’s Take: I’ll start off by telling you that, as a midwesterner, I grew up on Miracle Whip, not mayo. Throughout my pre-allergen life, I used both, pretty much inter-changeably, and never much thought about it. I was never a rabid lover of mayo, nor was I a hater — mayo/MW had its…
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DIY Lip Balm if Allergic to Coconut
Guess what? Most lip balms contain either coconut or palm too. (To see a list of coconut derivatives, go here, thanks to Becky at the Allergic to Coconut? blog). Luckily, once have all the stuff to make the lotions, you pretty much have everything you need to make lip balm except the coloring and/or flavoring…
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Whatever Wednesday: DIY Lotions and Lotion Bars if Allergic to Coconut
Since most lotions contain coconut derivatives (to see a list of coconut derivatives, go here, thanks to Becky at the Allergic to Coconut? blog), and the one that I found that didn’t have any, had two ingredients that turned out to be forms of pesticide, I decided I needed to make my own if I…
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WW: DIY Shampoo if Allergic to Coconut on Whatever Wednesday
EDITED TO ADD : Please go see the newest version of this recipe – it’s a lot better!! – UPDATED AGAIN!! DIY Shampoo if Allergic to Coconut on Whatever Wednesday So here’s the thing. Being allergic to coconut is a b*tch, once you realize that coconut is in just about every cleaning product on the market. To…