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Showing posts with label DIY home cleaning products. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY home cleaning products. Show all posts

Friday, May 01, 2020

Reading (Labels) Is Frugal-izing

So. A while back, I wrote a post on using MSG in food. I also wrote a post on the various ways I use citric acid. I don't know if those hit home with you all the way I intended so...

If you have ever used these 2 products -

$3.77 for 4.5oz at Walmart


Look at the only ingredient















$3.63/ for 12oz at Walmart



Again, look at the ingredients













- you should know how much cheaper it is to just buy the main ingredients for yourself. I actually forgot I had noticed this about the Booster. You are paying for not reading the labels!

Same thing with makeup. I've told you guys how I've been doctoring the shades of foundations that weren't right for my color. Recently I have been struggling to come up with a moisturizing sunscreen that a) doesn't turn me ashy-looking and, b) that moisturizes without leaving a shine. Once again, I will be going to the source to save money.  They have the info, recipe, and most of the ingredients I want. (They have lots of recipes and formulas. Here are some.)

Just in the past few weeks, I've stopped buying the ready-made vape juices and started buying the base and adding flavor concentrates.

When I was having trouble finding hand sanitizer, I mixed 70% alcohol into some generic aloe vera gel that I added a touch of glycerin into. This is stuff I already had in my bathroom pantry. And, AND, I was just guessing and didn't realize I was using the same recipe shown here and other places!

You let me figure out a way to make my own toilet tissue...

Seriously, I just think it's important that we realize what we are paying for when we buy the more expensive branded products. Right now, I have been refilling my Booster jar with the cheap(er) citric acid I van get in bulk. By the way, citric acid is also known, for some reason, as "sour salt" so you might see it labeled that way when you are looking to buy some.

 By the way, before I sign off, I did find this video about, uh, making your own toilet paper. Folks, I was just joshing!




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