The Great Scouring Scrub – Part 2

I put The Great Scouring Scrub to the hardest test known to the Wild Poppy Farm ….. da da da dahhh cleaning the bird’s (a.k.a. Burdy) water bowl.

 

We have a morning dove in the house. Her water bowl usually gets cleaned out with CLR because that is the only thing we have found that will completely remove the ring left by the water. Twice a week we take it out and let it soak. It always bothers me that her bowl is cleaned with CLR. Just to be on the safe side, it gets triple washed and rinsed after the cleaning. I knew this would be the perfect test for The Great Scouring Scrub!

This is her bowl after 2 days of sitting in her cage. 

Nasty, right? Eeek. The water has eaten away at the porcelain and the sides are rough so every little pore is dirty. 

Gag me with a spoon!

 I sprinkled the Scouring Scrub on the sides. I knew it needed some water to activate the process so I misted it lightly with Linen Water (the homemade version which I will share on another post) and let it sit for a bit. 

 Actually I was going to let it sit for just a few minutes while I went outside to feed the dogs, buttt ... then I passed the tomato and pepper plants and HAD to stop to water them. Since Dutchess (our youngest but biggest dog) thinks the water hose is the best toy in the world, we played with the water for a while. Suddenly, I remembered what I went outside to do in the first place and promptly feed the dogs. On my way back up to the house, I found little gifts the dogs drug up; limbs, rocks, etc. Dogs are sweet like that! ha I had to pick those up and disposed of them. So, all in all, I guess the scrub sat on the bowl for about an hour.

I grabbed my handy-dandy-kitchen-sink-toothbrush scrubber and gave the bowl a light scrub. Rinsed it out and demanded (yeah, right) my husband to come look. That was tough because something good (in his opinion) was on the Military channel! Argh.

He agreed with me, some of the stain was still there, but we were both amazed on how much better it looked. Not having to worry about the chemicals hurting Burdy was the best part.

The finished product!

Here is my opinion: I am totally completely and utterly amazed at this stuff. It’s a keeper and my Bonami (but I will keep my Aunt Nee's as a backup)  will be replaced with The Great Scouring Scrub!!

Scouring without the Scour

There are several reasons why I use Aunt Nee’s Citrus Cleaning Powder, the main one is because I can use it on my Calphalon cookware. I will spare you the three page “how to care for your Calphalon” instruction manual, (it's a page turner, let me tell you, yawwwwwnnnn) the short of it is, keep it out of the dishwasher and away from anything abrasive.

The second reason is that Aunt Nee’s is all natural, non-toxic and best of all leaves no film like some of the Comet, Ajax cleaners (sorry guys).

I thought I was in heaven with Aunt Nee’s then yesterday I found, drum roll please….. Crunchy Betty and The Great Grapefruit Scouring Scrub! I made it, I tested it, I got a second and third opinion on it and we agree, IT IS The Great Scouring Scrub. I left the Grapefruit out, because, well, I used Orange peels.

So here is what you do…

Gather the following:

3 Tablespoons Borax

5 Tablespoons Baking Soda

3 Tablespoons dried citrus peel (please make sure you grind it before you use it, makes a big difference)

You will also need a container to put it in. I re-purposed a plastic spice jar. It worked great for this because the top has a shaker screen. 

Mix it all together and pour it into your chosen container.

 

Next we tested it…
To use, sprinkle over the spot you want to clean, just like other dry cleaners, then wipe with a wet cloth. Easy, peasy.
 

There is a spot on the wall at work. It seems the cleaning crew can’t clean it. We have all tried and tired of trying.

These are the spots…

Do you see the spots? Why won’t they come off?

Oh look they did, so much so that I can’t get my auto-focus camera to focus on anything.

Then there’s the stubborn stain on the table. Everyone has just kind of accepted and embraced them as part of our happy team…. NOT.  My crew of three people, my “disinterested parties” who kept me from being blinded with delight, wondered if this scrub would work on the table.

It’s off now…. My disinterested parties and I could not believe it, so now we are all making Crunchy Betty’s The Great Grapefruit Orange Scouring Scrub.

Tonight is the BIG test drive in the family kitchen. I'll let you know how it goes. 

If you do decide to try it, come back and leave a comment on what you think. I would love to hear what you have to say. Or, if you have another recipe for this, please oh please send it to me!!!

Jennifer ♥