This time of year, flies are in abundance, and I don't know about you, but I detest them! I always think of them walking on sh*t then on food or kitchen surfaces, enough to turn me off food (if only!!!!!). Now being vegan, I don't want to kill them, I just want them to leave me alone - go elsewhere. I searched the Internet for natural deterrents and this one appealed to me: Hang a clear plastic bag, half filled with water and including several pennies over an open door. I had to search around for pennies. Never a penny handy when you need one. I asked my partner if any other coins would do, and was told, no the advice says pennies, so pennies it must be (not convinced about that though!). After trying a few ways of hanging the bag over the door, having to get a step ladder out each time, as the top of the door was just out of my reach, I though to put the bag attached to string, onto a coat hanger, and place it central, on the open door. And guess what - it works! Honestly! In the last few days since I've been doing this, I've hardly had any flies in the house, just the very odd stray. Amazing - it works! Apparently, the 'theory' goes, that flies see it as a potential predator nest, so won't go near it - whatever! It works. So in return for a little hassle, I have a fly free house, YAY! Go ahead, try it, I was skeptical before I tried it, but I'm glad I did.
While dodging the rain this morning, we popped into Buyology. It's the first time I've been there, but I dare say it won't be the last. Plenty of 'tat' for sale, but look carefully and there are some good bargains and some vegan products. I found a whole range of Astonish cleaning porducts, which are labelled as suitable for vegans. Their website states: "All Astonish products are suitable for vegans", and their Ethical and Envioronmental information is impressive. AND very reasonably priced, most products being 99p. At least that's what the orange cleaner was and the fabric freshener at Buyology.
I've tried the orange cleaner, and it smells of sweet orange, quite like mandarin, or maybe orange sweets, which is a lot sweeter than natural orange oil on it's own, but is a pleasant enough smell. It cleans like you would expect, which is good, my only negative point is that it doesn't come with a person to do the cleaning for me (joke!). I haven't tried the fabric freshener yet, put I did squirt a tiny bit to see what it smelled like, (or should that be to smell what it smelled like!) and it smelled, to me, very much like Fabreze type products, which is exactly what I've been looking for, only in a vegan formula. I'm very happy with my finds, and I'll certainly be back there again.
