Making your own soap or cleaning products isn’t just a throwback hobby - it’s a quiet act of rebellion.
Cleaning products, an important and hugely profitable arm of the chemical industry is, as you might expect, just awfully polluting, and also tied up by very few massive multinational corporations - the sort that is in a great part responsible for consumerist modern living and immesurable harm to the planet.
They have been so successful in their social conditioning, that even though everyone knows of old school cleaning products from the kitchen, it seems hard to believe that they actually work. So, this challenge is as much about re-training ourselves a little away from clever marketing and polished design in plastic bottles as it is about actually cleaning things.
Although, what we learn here will definitely be helpful in the future, and is essential knowledge for the self sufficient vegan. Oh yeah, very few shop-bought cleaning products are vegan either!
So here we go, are you ready to step outside the industrial cycle of plastic-packaged, chemical-laden products and take back control with ingredients you can recognise, pronounce, and source ethically? Shall we connect to something real: the alchemy of transformation using basic, natural components.