I Haven't Bought Cleaning Products in 40 Years - What My Grandmother Used Instead

I Haven't Bought Cleaning Products in 40 Years - What My Grandmother Used Instead I was nineteen years old when I called my grandmother and told her I needed to go to the store for cleaning supplies. She was quiet for a moment. Then she said: what do you think we cleaned with before they invented a store? I didn't understand that for another ten years. What I share in this video are twenty things my grandmother cleaned, treated, and maintained using nothing that had to be purchased: lye soap made from ash and kitchen fat, washing soda from the shelf above the washtub, vinegar and salt and cornstarch doing the work that a cabinet full of labeled bottles does today, and doing it better. She was not making do. She was using what worked. And nothing in a bottle has improved on most of it since.