Create your own household essentials with these MYO (Make Your Own) DIY recipes and guides!
From cleaners and laundry products to air fresheners and hand soaps, our MYO household items help you save money and reduce chemicals (such as pesticides) in your home.
Enjoy easy, budget-friendly projects for a cleaner, greener lifestyle.
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Are you a bit domestically challenged? Try our Super Laundry Sauce for Dummies! This 7 minute, No Mess, no-cook laundry detergent recipe makes enough Heavy Duty Laundry Detergent to wash 128 Loads of laundry, but it takes up very little room and costs less than $2.00 to make.
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Many DIY household recipes call for “Powdered Soap”, which used to be something that you could purchase in a box in the laundry detergent aisle of your favorite grocery store. Those times have passed and nowadays, if you want powdered soap, you must make your own. Here’s a super easy way to make powdered soap in about 2 minutes flat . . .
Why spend a fortune on harsh chemicals that you have to worry about your kids or pets getting into? Here’s an effective, safe Citrus Floor Cleaner that works great on tile, hardwood and linoleum flooring.
Create your own homemade LemonShine dishwasher detergent for sparkly clean dishes without harsh chemicals!
I absolutely love those magic erasers they sell in the little boxes of 6 for …
Tired of spending $10-20 on a “Big” bottle of laundry detergent that lasts only a couple weeks? Here is a Super Concentrated Laundry Detergent Recipe that doubles as a laundry softener with a clean fresh Lavender scent- as if that weren’t enough, you won’t need a dryer sheet either! Oh, and did we happen to mention that it costs less than $2 to make enough concentrate to do 128 Loads of laundry?!
Recently I started noticing how much money I was spending on dishwasher detergent, especially the pods or pellets. Brand-name pellets ranged from a low of 2.98 to 6.29 for 20 pellets on a recent visit to the grocery store. That’s when I decided to make my own.