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Natural Bleach Alternative

Try this natural BLEACH ALTERNATIVE the next time you clean, whether it be fabrics or as a general all-purpose cleaner in your kitchen or bathrooms. The acidic lemon gives it a nice cleaning boost and, of course, a fresh citrus scent.

Ingredients:
-12 cups water
-1/4 cup lemon juice
-1 cup hydrogen peroxide

Mix ingredients. Add 2 cups per wash load or put in spray bottle and use as a household cleaner.

How best to get rid of ants !

1 empty water bottle
(Cut it down to about 2" tall)
5 Tbsp of baking soda
5 Tbsp of sugar
3 Tbsp of water. ( dry works buy I used real sugar.)

The very best way of eliminating ants is truly simple:

Take a small amount of powdered sugar (also called icing sugar) and mix it with an equal amount of baking soda (formally called sodium bicarbonate)

Powdered sugar is essential. You cannot use the larger grains of sugar for this..

Mix the two powders together and then place small amounts against the walls or other areas where you would not normally walk but where you would normally see the ants.

The ants will be attracted to the sugar and will eat some of it and collect more to take home to feed others, so all of them will get their share.

The sugar and baking soda powders are similar in size and, once mixed together, the ants cannot separate the two items, so, as they eat the sugar, they will also ingest the baking soda, which they would otherwise never touch. This is the reason for using powdered sugar.

Once the ants eat the baking soda it will react with the formic acid in their stomachs and cause gas. The bodies of ants are unlike humans and they cannot eliminate gas so it will build up inside them and cause them to literally explode.