Soda ash is baking soda’s older, gruntier brother. It’s a powerful natural cleaner but unlike its counterpart, it cannot be eaten. Soda ash, other wise known as sodium carbonate, is fine with a powdery consistency where as washing soda (often called soda ash) is gritty and harder to work with. We only use Wendyl’s Green Goddess Premium Soda Ash in our natural …
Recipe – Starched Sheets
Why not starch your sheets this weekend? I’m a bit of a white sheet fanatic and I love it when they’re starched and ironed. I must confess I did this for a while, but now I just throw them on the line and let the sun crisp them up and give them that gorgeous smell. But if you want to …
How to fold a fitted sheet
Now I know you probably think you’ve got the task of folding a fitted sheet mastered, as I have. But then I came across this wonderful video with an even better way. Seriously you will never fold those sheets the old way again. Click here to view.
Recipe – Hotel sheets
I spent the weekend with a good friend and we spent a great deal of our time together discussing our mutual love of linen. We both adore good quality sheets and by the time we’d had a few wines we were making plans to set up our own quality linen shop. The next morning we weren’t so sure! Here are …
DIY Wool Soap Jelly For Gentle Washing
You can use my laundry liquid for machine-washing woollens if you have a wool setting on your machine, but this is a super delicate wash which I recommend for hand washing wool blankets and baby clothes. By the way, wool is naturally anti-bacterial so blankets that have been stained can often just be sponged and then line dried out of the …
Do you really need to wash your clothes so much?
Are we spending too much time in our laundry? Do you do a load of washing every day? Are you throwing your clothes into the laundry basket after wearing them only once? If you are then you are probably washing your clothes too often, which wastes a lot of water, uses up yourWendyl’s laundry powder far too quickly and wears …
How to spot wash stains
I woke up last week to find that there had been carnage in my bed overnight. On Tuesday night I managed to slice half my nail off on my left index finger and I hadn’t really done the best job of bandaging it. So this morning there was blood and iodine all over my new white Wallace Cotton bed cover, as …
How to dry sweet smelling sheets
In Italy women apparently dry their sheets by draping them over rosemary and lavender bushes in the hot sun. The odour from the plant gets into the sheets and they smell amazing. I have a huge rosemary bush and there’s been plenty of hot sun so I tried it out (pictured). My sheet was whiter than white for sure and …