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Instant Liquid Soap is the perfect stovetop cleaner. It's gentle on your hands while being tough on built up, caked on grease. Click here to read How to Clean your Greasy Stovetop using zero waste natural soap methods

  1. Tear open pouch at notch
  2. Fill pouch with water to top of label. Gently stir.
  3. Pour into a reused plastic bottle. Use.

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From raising chickens, to gardening, running a home office to cooking gourmet meals, Wendy keeps everything moving forward. Andy maintains everything, including the cars, tractor, snow blower and soap factory. We get dirty and clean up all day long.

Since she was a tiny 2 day old chick, Goldie wanted to live in our coop, otherwise known as our house. When Archie, the rooster we intentionally bought, pulled out too many of Goldie's feathers and drew blood on her crest, we thought she wouldn't last the night in the coop with the flock. When they see red, especially blood, they all instinctively turn from sweet chicks into killers. She recuperated in a cage in our mudroom for about 6 weeks. Cleaning up every day after her was a task for the Liquid Soap Refill.

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Mar 27, 2024

How to Make a Bubble Bath

A bubble bath is one of the most relaxing activities you can do. A bubble bath is also a luxury. You may not think of it as one, but to fill a tub with 25-40 gallons of clean hot water is, most definitely, a luxury.

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Mar 19, 2024

The Best Car Wash

Best Car Wash Soap: natural car wash soap makes an eco friendly car wash. It's biodegradable, gentle on your hands and your car's paint and interior.

Car wash and car mechanic hand wash detergents, solvents, greases, fluids, and even that new car smell can be toxic. Most of those things are part of car ownership. Generic chemical car wash and hand wash detergents can be swapped out for the best car wash soap. It's more pleasing, more effective, less polluting biodegradable eco-friendly soap.

The car in the photo has Green Heron bird poop on it

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Mar 18, 2024

The Best Car Wash

Best Car Wash Soap: natural car wash soap makes an eco friendly car wash. It's biodegradable, gentle on your hands and your car's paint and interior.

Car wash and car mechanic hand wash detergents, solvents, greases, fluids, and even that new car smell can be toxic. Most of those things are part of car ownership. Generic chemical car wash and hand wash detergents can be swapped out for the best car wash soap. It's more pleasing, more effective, less polluting biodegradable eco-friendly soap.

The car in the photo has Green Heron bird poop on it

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Mar 12, 2024

How to hand wash laundry

Hand washing laundry is as old as the hills, and best for some types of fiber.

Clothing deemed as "delicate" are in this category for a few reasons. One is the actual fiber will become ruined when it is tumbled around and spun in a washing machine.

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Mar 06, 2024

Fruit and Vegetable Wash

An effective fruit and vegetable wash is a necessary kitchen accessory.

You definitely want to make sure you clean off all of the soil from your fruits and vegetables, but you definitely don't want any soap residue or chemical odors left on your food. The reason you cook is to have great tasting food that's good for you too.

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Feb 28, 2024

Best Beard and Body Soap

Beards are exposed to more than just the elements. Air, dust, perfumes, indoor and outdoor fumes from cooking, car exhaust, HVAC systems, cleaning solutions, camp fires, and smells of all kinds love to stick to hair and sink in.

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Feb 19, 2024

The Best Camping Soap

When you're out on the trail, you want to be as close to nature as possible. Isn't that why you're camping? It's a sensory experience. Hearing the sounds of nature, smelling clean air, feeling the wind on your face, seeing and touching trees or sand, fresh or salt water. You need the best camping soap so you don't mess any of that up.

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Feb 13, 2024

How To Use Bar Soap

How to use a bar of soap is simple. Wet your hands with hot or cold water, pick up your dry bar of soap and rub it between your hands. Put the bar of soap back on its soap dish, and rub your hands together. You may need to add a bit more water to generate a good lather. Depending on your bar, you may need to add a bit more soap, to make sure you get a good amount of lather.

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Feb 06, 2024

Laundry Soap Recipe

Make Laundry SoapThis laundry soap recipe makes an excellent laundry soap, without:the plastic bottle  displacing waterharmful ingredients or any detergentsand most of all, without micro plastics, otherwise known as PVA (polyvinyl alcohol) or PVOC (polyvinyl chloride). 

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Feb 05, 2024

Laundry Soap Recipe

Make Laundry SoapThis laundry soap recipe makes an excellent laundry soap, without:the plastic bottle  displacing waterharmful ingredients or any detergentsand most of all, without micro plastics, otherwise known as PVA (polyvinyl alcohol) or PVOC (polyvinyl chloride). 

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Jan 29, 2024

The Best Long Hair Conditioner

These steps are optional:Take an old tee shirt and crimp clumps of my hair up and squeeze out any excess water. Repeat this process a few times to crimp all of your hair several times.You can also use a hair dryer blowing on the outside of the tee shirt, while squeezing out the excess water. Wrap hair in the tee shirt for a couple of hours, while it is wet.Remove the tee shirt and let it air dry for another hour or two.Waited a little while to brush, comb, pick your hair it. The wave lasts all day.For better wave on non hair wash days, fluff and crimp your hair with wet hands.

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Jan 23, 2024

How to Exfoliate Skin

The best ways to exfoliate using natural methods are simple and inexpensive. You will need a few tools and good bar soap.How much soap money does a shower cost you?Let's say you spend $6.00 on a bar of soap and it lasts for 7 days of showers. That's $.84 per shower. For your next bar of soap, you spend $10.00. That seems like a lot of money, except it lasts for 8 weeks or 56 showers. That's $.18 cents per shower. F.Y.I.: One bar lasts me and Andy 6 weeks of daily showers - 84 showers. That's $.12 a shower.Good soap is cost effective.

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Dec 12, 2023

What is Castile Soap

GOOD OLD FASHIONED LYE SOAP.What is Castile Soap?It is traditional lye soap made with vegetable oil. That's it. It should be sudsy, smooth, and feel great.

What is good Castile hand soap? It is a vegetable soap (aka Castile soap) made from an oil and lye solution, specially formulated to be sudsy and gentle, while killing germs. The lather has the function of collecting excess dirt, puncturing germs and then removing them during the rinsing process.

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Nov 28, 2023

License the dry liquid soap patent opportunity

License Instant Liquid Soap and partner with us to change the way liquid soap is manufactured, packaged and sold.

Why would any natural soap company want to ship already diluted soap, when you can ship it dry?

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Nov 21, 2023

License the dry liquid soap patent opportunity

License Instant Liquid Soap and partner with us to change the way liquid soap is manufactured, packaged and sold.

Why would any natural soap company want to ship already diluted soap, when you can ship it dry?

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Leave your lips moist and smooth for many hours. Soothes severely chapped lips.

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Good, all natural bar soap is an essential as a whole body soap wash. It's economical, luxurious, and effective. When selecting a bar of soap, look for simple ingredients with pleasing essential oil aromas and lots of sudsy lather. Sudsing all the way down to a sliver, over 3-4 months of daily use, is key in good bar soap. Try Ithaca Soap   


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ILS Story Board fullMake Liquid Soap at home. Save your hands from harmful dish washing soaps and liquids. Get some here.

Instant Liquid Soap is liquid soap, sold in a paper bag.  The soap is sold dry. The end user adds water to turn it into true liquid Castile soap. This saves ship weight, space, and the environment. Water stays where it belongs.

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