BATS is an insecticide that causes the plant to become toxic to insects that feed on it. Bauer Advance Tree and Shrub is the name of the product and it works very well. Using indoors is pretty safe if you are careful but outdoors these products can easily poison bees and other good insects if you are not careful. I grow staghorn ferns but only have one right now because my Platycerium grande died because it dried out too much while I was on vacation last year. Mike

LOL! Great idea and the smell will keep away the deer & rabbits! Paul, you're brilliant! Actually, the neighbors that own most of the woods used to allow hunters a few years ago. We didn't have as many squirrels and rabbits then. Hey, sorry, I get upset when my hubbie accidentally mows over a toad. LOL! Ms Jo

Hello, I have made lye soaps in the past with coconut, Olive and other oils. If you have any recipes which encorporate several oils in the recipe, I would be super happy. It is so hard to find recipes for soap with several oils that impart a little of each good addition to a bar of soap.

It's doable and the right blend would not gunk up your washer. Fels and Zote would because they are blended to be skin safe. The basis of many detergents is indeed a soap. Sodium coco anything is saponified coconut oil. It's oil reacted with sodium hydroxide lye. That's soap. Washing soda and citric acid = sodium citrate. D limonene ($3 a liter) heavy duty degreaser (orange essential oil is 90% d limonene) often listed as citrus extract. Zeolites and sodium silicate - crystal cat litter ground fine or some of the eco friendly tsp. Add a bit of grapeseed extract for antioxidant properties. Just made a batch of Biokleen powder :). The DIY crowd just needs to think bigger. Edited : left out a few ingredients :) Sodium sulfate is a cheap filler. It does nothing. It's only real use is as a laxative as it binds so well with water. Laureth 7 - secondary surfactant. It makes bubbles but doesn't actually clean anything. It's there so you see bubbles and are happy. Cellulose gum is listed as a chelator. It's a thickener, a starch. Used to thicken liquid soaps and foods. More filler basically unless your water is too thin....