Laundry

Overlapping uses for kerosene, clay & milk

Cloth diapering my son taught me a lot about the science of washing clothes and now I know way more than I used to about things like hard water and borax, but nonetheless I spent some time this week researching the history of laundry and the chemistry of stain removal for a piece of flash fiction I wrote.

Fun Facts

• Urine, lemon, and onion juice were once …