Comments on: Our house smells like fish and chips http://greencouple.com/2009/02/09/our-house-smells-like-fish-and-chips/ Learning to live green and live together Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:07:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: kt http://greencouple.com/2009/02/09/our-house-smells-like-fish-and-chips/comment-page-1/#comment-3020 kt Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:49:20 +0000 http://greencouple.com/?p=515#comment-3020 Hello! I love you blog, and am glad you got the website address sorted out. They just call them Chippies in England (vs. Chippery) Cheers, kt Hello!

I love you blog, and am glad you got the website address sorted out.

They just call them Chippies in England (vs. Chippery)

Cheers,
kt

]]> By: Dana http://greencouple.com/2009/02/09/our-house-smells-like-fish-and-chips/comment-page-1/#comment-3015 Dana Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:58:55 +0000 http://greencouple.com/?p=515#comment-3015 I will definitely keep the vinegar tips in mind for when we get our dog. (The day draws ever nearer! We've been having freakishly warm weather here, too, so maybe we'll get the backyard fenced sometime soon!) On the hair side note, the other thing I know a lot of people use for the same effect as vinegar but without the smell is a dilute citric acid rinse. One ratio I'm finding in a quick search right now is 1.5 teaspoons CA and 1/8 teaspoon ascorbic acid in 1.75 liters water. (This obviously makes more than you'd need for just one rinse.) Then again, if brushing before you shower is all it takes to prevent tangles for your hair, why bother with all this? :-) I will definitely keep the vinegar tips in mind for when we get our dog. (The day draws ever nearer! We’ve been having freakishly warm weather here, too, so maybe we’ll get the backyard fenced sometime soon!)

On the hair side note, the other thing I know a lot of people use for the same effect as vinegar but without the smell is a dilute citric acid rinse. One ratio I’m finding in a quick search right now is 1.5 teaspoons CA and 1/8 teaspoon ascorbic acid in 1.75 liters water. (This obviously makes more than you’d need for just one rinse.)

Then again, if brushing before you shower is all it takes to prevent tangles for your hair, why bother with all this? :-)

]]> By: 'Becca http://greencouple.com/2009/02/09/our-house-smells-like-fish-and-chips/comment-page-1/#comment-3014 'Becca Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:30:53 +0000 http://greencouple.com/?p=515#comment-3014 I just found your site via Grist. I like it! My partner and I have been writing earthlingshandbook.org since 1999, with many eco-tips as well as other topics. The article linked behind my name is about how I wash my hair with vinegar. Tea tree oil is excellent for killing toenail fungus, if you happen to get it. The best method we've found is to get a cheap emery board, sit in the bathtub, file off the surface of the infected nails as deeply as you can, rinse the crumbs down the drain, dry your feet, then apply straight tea tree oil with a cotton swab all over every toenail and cuticle. Repeat application of tea tree oil every day for a couple weeks, then stop and see if the fungus comes back--mine never has! I just found your site via Grist. I like it! My partner and I have been writing earthlingshandbook.org since 1999, with many eco-tips as well as other topics. The article linked behind my name is about how I wash my hair with vinegar.

Tea tree oil is excellent for killing toenail fungus, if you happen to get it. The best method we’ve found is to get a cheap emery board, sit in the bathtub, file off the surface of the infected nails as deeply as you can, rinse the crumbs down the drain, dry your feet, then apply straight tea tree oil with a cotton swab all over every toenail and cuticle. Repeat application of tea tree oil every day for a couple weeks, then stop and see if the fungus comes back–mine never has!

]]> By: Maggie http://greencouple.com/2009/02/09/our-house-smells-like-fish-and-chips/comment-page-1/#comment-3012 Maggie Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:06:23 +0000 http://greencouple.com/?p=515#comment-3012 Vanessa - I've heard good things about tea tree oil but haven't played with it much. I hear it's helpful for athlete's foot and teeth cleaning, among other things. I'd definitely test it on carpet first but it could be really good. Jessica - My hair is really straight so it doesn't tangle too badly most of the time but it comes down to my bellybutton so we I get a tangle, man, it sucks. Apple cider vinegar smells a lot better than white vinegar but I still don't like my hair to smell like it. I think it almost makes me slightly hungry which just makes my stomach a little overactive. But I might try again some day. Vanessa -
I’ve heard good things about tea tree oil but haven’t played with it much. I hear it’s helpful for athlete’s foot and teeth cleaning, among other things. I’d definitely test it on carpet first but it could be really good.

Jessica -
My hair is really straight so it doesn’t tangle too badly most of the time but it comes down to my bellybutton so we I get a tangle, man, it sucks. Apple cider vinegar smells a lot better than white vinegar but I still don’t like my hair to smell like it. I think it almost makes me slightly hungry which just makes my stomach a little overactive. But I might try again some day.

]]> By: Jessica http://greencouple.com/2009/02/09/our-house-smells-like-fish-and-chips/comment-page-1/#comment-3010 Jessica Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:32:13 +0000 http://greencouple.com/?p=515#comment-3010 I can't take a shower without combing my hair first. No conditioner, natural or otherwise, can tame my tangles. I have to braid my hair before bed too, so it doesn't get to many tangles while I'm sleeping. Its just crazy. That being said, I love vinegar as a final rinse for my hair. It makes it so shiney! I still use conditioner too, I run vinegar through after I condition. I don't notice a lingering smell, I use apple cider vinegar though. My grandmother used to use vinegar in her hair that way every day after her swim, to prevent her hair from turning green from the clorine. I can’t take a shower without combing my hair first. No conditioner, natural or otherwise, can tame my tangles. I have to braid my hair before bed too, so it doesn’t get to many tangles while I’m sleeping. Its just crazy.
That being said, I love vinegar as a final rinse for my hair. It makes it so shiney! I still use conditioner too, I run vinegar through after I condition. I don’t notice a lingering smell, I use apple cider vinegar though.
My grandmother used to use vinegar in her hair that way every day after her swim, to prevent her hair from turning green from the clorine.

]]> By: vanessa http://greencouple.com/2009/02/09/our-house-smells-like-fish-and-chips/comment-page-1/#comment-3007 vanessa Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:00:17 +0000 http://greencouple.com/?p=515#comment-3007 We recently splurged for some green house cleaners and they add tea tree oil to their vinegar-y cleaning elixers. tea tree is a strong enough smell to overpower the vinegar AND it has antimicrobial qualities itself. not sure it could have been used on your rug, but you might be interested in it for other cleaning you do. that is, on those days when you don't want to be a 'chippery' =) We recently splurged for some green house cleaners and they add tea tree oil to their vinegar-y cleaning elixers. tea tree is a strong enough smell to overpower the vinegar AND it has antimicrobial qualities itself. not sure it could have been used on your rug, but you might be interested in it for other cleaning you do. that is, on those days when you don’t want to be a ‘chippery’ =)

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