Eco-life workshop 5, lighter strips made from candle wastes
After the holidays, when there are plenty of candle wicks left, you can use them to make lighter strips. Homemade lighter strips are environmentally friendly aids to stove lighting and are easy to use when starting a fire. In summer, for example, when lighting a campfire. Cigarette lighters are also an environmentally friendly and original […]
Eco-life workshop 4, Home cleaning products
It’s easy to make window cleaner, all-purpose cleaner, scouring paste and dishwashing liquid from ingredients found in your kitchen. You need soap, baking soda, salt, vinegar, citric acid and water. The recipes come from my mother. The ingredients have all been tried in our kitchen, so I dare to recommend them. Why buy cleaning products […]
Eco-life workshop 3, homemade deodorant
Store-bought deodorants contain a lot of additives that are not good for our bodies. You can make deodorant at home without additives. It’s especially easy to make it with a cream tea. If you’ve made a large amount of cream in advance, leave 10 g of whipped cream in the mixing jar. For deodorant, it’s […]
Eco-life workshop 2, homemade hand cream
Homemade hand cream is good to make of coconut oil. We get shea butter in Örreke from the village of Kongo, Ghana, with the help of Mondo NGO. In addition, you need some vegetable oil. I had olive oil, grape seed oil and almond oil at home. Be sensible and careful when adding fragrance oil […]
Eco-life workshop 1, making a hand sanitiser
How to make a hand sanitiser Most hand sanitisers contain around 70% alcohol. It is advisable to use at least 80% vol vodka to kill germs. You won’t find vodka with a higher alcohol content in a normal shop. The ratio of liquids could be 80% alcohol and 20% water. So, depending on the size […]
Flyer with lipstick
In a school in Tallinn last week, we made planes with the children and their fathers. The twin girls named their planes Elsa and Elviine. I thought they were girls’ names, but it turned out that Elsa and Elviine were the first female pilots in Estonia. A few days later, I started researching the matter […]
Let’s make some real soap!
Örreke and Let’s go to Zero! exhibition invited Relumee and a few friends to come over and try out how to make ‘real’ soap. Let’s make a traditional soap! author: Katarina Papp, Let’s go to Zero! Usually, I have made my soap from a ready-made soap mix, simply because I already know how to make […]
Wrap your sandwich into self-made honeyfabric
Or hang a half apple wrapped in honeydew in the fridge. No drying out or anything. Put it on a morel jug, no flies can get at it. In all the sorry course the world is taking with its endless plastic pollution, global warming and depleting supplies of clean water, it might feel good to […]
The eco-life of the Soviet era – a dishcloth from a rug box and bread for head washing.
Nowadays, we talk a lot about living in a packaging-free world, consuming home-grown food, giving a new life to second-hand clothes, reducing paper waste, not wasting food, avoiding toxic detergents, etc. In the light of all this, when I think back to my own childhood, this is how we – the 50s of today – […]
Shea butter – African women’s gold
Shea butter has nothing to do with pigs, but is derived from the nuts of a tree that grows in Africa. In Estonian, it’s actually called butter seed oil. Shea butter is known as the gold of African women, because it has been produced by women for centuries, and with the income from its sale, […]