I'm not sure I can go the whole natural body cleaners & cosmetics thing TBH, but am quite enjoying the thought of natural cleaners. I was telling a friend of mine about what I'm doing by making my own cleaners. She looked at me confused and said "how? surely they aren't as good as the 'normal' cleaners" I said, "no, they aren't as good, they're better and cheaper and I know exactly what's in them" I was telling her some of the things I'm using and how that's all you need and you just mix different things together in different ways to do the job you need to do. I told her about lemon oil for detering spiders and she's going to try that one.

Today I got down on my hands and knees with a borax paste with a few drops of clove oil mixed in and my scrubbing brush to scrub the mould that's built up over years in my house...mind you, we've lived here for 1.5 years and the mould was there before we moved in! It's starting to work but it's gonna take a lot more elbow grease and a few more attempts though. I will also try just putting some oil of cloves on a cloth and wiping over all the mould and leaving it for 24 hours before rinsing. I've heard that works well.