Cleaning with Zote soap
Some days I think a little too much about cleaning. To the point of watching cleaning videos on Youtube. Wow Martha Stewart geek moment galore. But back to the main point and away from random looping of thoughts. The cheapest cleaning product I have come across is Zote laundry soap from Mexico! A huge bar that only costs around $1.50 at the cheaper grocery stores. My husband used to be married to this Mexican woman when he lived in Texas, so that's where he heard about it. I started using it for more than just clothes and wanted to share a short list of extra uses.

1) Cleaning a cotton mop, cute hubby got the mop all nasty from naughty Pomeranian. I put on the gloves and washed it with the Zote and was seriously shocked how clean it got.

2) Counter tops, cute hubby again (trust it's a trend, he is cute but messy) cooks and splatters oily gross messes and it works better than using up expensive dish soap.

3)My beloved cast iron pot! Cute hubby again baked in barbecue sauce and left it. The Zote was the only thing that softened up that barbecue sauce. Of course when your done you have to dry and season again.

4) Mildew clothes, when somebody forgets the clothes in the washer and the smell is sour. I took a knife and scraped flakes all over the load and washed as normal. It's stretches a lot further than a $10 box of name brand.

5) The shocking one, underneath the stove eyes. I lifted the stove thingy lid and of course somebody had left spills that were baked hard. I scrubbed a lot and nothing really happened, I said screw it and wet the bar of soap and laid it on the spot. Left for a while and the soap soaked into the spot and this time it all came off, good as new.