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Making your life greener - one bite at a time.

Reuse plastic bottle tops and plastic jar lids and make some DIY plastic people and toys.

For plastic toys, this little fellow is ideal to hang in the trees, the children love them in their special garden play areas. You may have to go to the local cafe or bar and repurpose their used lids and corks.

Children will have fun with this recycling project. Use your imagination and let it flow. Other great ideas include a bottle windmill. It looks good (refer photo), but if might not function well.

The older soap gets the longer it lasts once you start to use it.

When you buy some, take it out of its packet and let it dry for

Making your very own home brewed laundry liquids makes sense and can save you money at the same time.

Here are some recipes for organic washing agents that have been recyled and translated from a French book Guide de l'Anti-Consommateur, (The Anti-Consumer's Guide) by Dorothee Koechlin-Schwartz and martin Grapas, published by Livre de Poche.

Follow these simple to make recipes and voila!, you will never buy commercially made products again.

A pure soap were once made in Ireland by McClintons and Colleen soaps from coconut oil and wood-ash. The exact process of manufacture was a closely kept family secret.

Here is a recipe that we have tried without using animal fats or caustic soda.