Challenge 2
DIY Cleaning Product
Why?
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!
How?
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.
Reflections
Do you get a different set of birds at different times of day? In the morning or just before sunset?
Focus on one bird, and learn its song. It might take some days to recognise your first one. After that, it gets easier.
How many of the birds do you think you could visually recognise?
Did you know any of them by ear at the start of your journal? How many had you learned by the end?
Has your appreciation of time outside changed during this challenge or did you spend more time outside than you might have done otherwise?
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