Non-Toxic Cleaning for the Home

...ernet information, misinformation spreads easily, and not-so-good cleaning recipes are ubiquitous. Cleaning is chemistry, and unfortunately most of us are not chemists. You’ll find recipes asking you to mix substances which should not mix. Watch out for these recommendations: Baking Soda + Vinegar These are both excellent cleaners on their own, but when combined they foam spectacularly and do little else. One is an acid and the other is a base. To...

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Moonshine

...Rowley called Moonshine! that offers up an entertaining history as well as recipes and instructions for building two kinds of stills, a simple one made with a wok and a more complex model involving welding that resembles the one being seized in the photo above. As soon as things cool down here this fall we’ll definitely begin some legal fermentation experiments, but we can’t help but feel envious of some comrades of ours in France we visited a few...

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