Anybody? No? Dust.

[ElizabethBinary]

Ergh. In our merging of households, my fiancee contributed some beautiful wooden tables and leather couches. I've already found recipes for organic couch leathers and washes and things, which is awesome... but the tables get so much DUST. Two days after I clean them, they need dusted again!

Is there anything organic I can clean them with in order to keep the dust off them?

[crowsashes]

heres a home made one.

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/altern ... olish.html#

or you could try out this one

http://www.ethicalsuperstore.com/produc ... ish-650ml/

all it contains is water olive oil, orange oil and an emulsifier so i guess you could also run up a simpler version yourself.

[Milims]

Well I believe a house isn't a home until you can write "I Love You" in the dust and I find messages all over the telly regularly!

[Annpan]

I just use a damp cloth to dust... sometimes I put a little bit of EO on in the water too, which makes it smell nicer

[ElizabethBinary]

Oh I use a damp towel as it is - but it comes back so quickly!!! I have a giant TV cabinent and two tables to dust every other day!!

Do you know if the furniture polish recipes keep dust at bay? I can get it off just fine and dandy, it's the staying off it don't wanna do!!!

[ElizabethBinary]

Well I believe a house isn't a home until you can write "I Love You" in the dust and I find messages all over the telly regularly!

This is cute. My partner and I are probably a bit wasteful and use post-its attached to the bedroom door to write love notes. Next time I'll do it in dust and save paper! :)

[sarahkeast]

Ok, so I wasnt much good at science at school but isnt dust just particles of 'stuff' floating in the air ? skin cells, hair, clothing etc ? sooooooo, if it is floating stuff, isnt it going to land somewhere eventually [unless you have an anti gravity machine says my son when told to clear his bedroom floor] Therefore, it is going to settle eventually, you cant 'keep it off' flat surfaces with 'stuff' ?

dunno ? anyone smarter than me about this ?

Oh yes, housework is over rated

Sarah

[ElizabethBinary]

LOL. I suppose you can think like that.

Techically, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, dust particles are mostly attracted to oils and things because they stick when they land, as opposed to being brushed back up do to movement. Also, IONS (omg ions) are all in the air and make dust sticky! So what I need is an ionizer. Or so the advertisements tell me. Why would advertisements lie? :D

[Silver Ether]

As long as there is dust in the air and there always is from fabrics,carpets,curtains, clothing and our beloved pet and on and on there will always be dust ... you can cut it down by getting rid of carpets and curtains pets, husbands, clothing ... but it will always be there I use the brush attachment when I am vacuming to remove it of surfaces and funiture and damp dust... downstairs at least 4 times a week and twice up stairs ... I am fussy but not as fussy as I was.

[Millymollymandy]

Blimey. I do it once in a blue moon when I can be bothered. It only comes back again.

I really laugh whenever I see people installing shiny black kitchen work surfaces because I inherited one once when we bought our last house and the dust it showed was dreadful and I had to wipe it umpteen times a day! No, light colours are the way to go and wood doesn't show the dust too badly either, poor light in winter helps too. If all else fails cover all surfaces with clutter.

[contadina]

Mine get an occasional wipe over with a cloth dipped in olive oil and lemon juice. It produces a great shine and smells lovely, although one of our dogs is rather partial to it so she gives it all a second clean with her tongue .

For no dust, other than living in a bubble, Quentin Crisp reckoned it takes four years for the dust to settle .

[JillStephens7]

I use mostly microfibre clothes and a waxed 'brush' type thing, to make sure all the dust leaves the room with me when I'm done. I do use a spray bottle of water with a bit of olive oil, vinegar & lemon essential oil every so often & think things do stay a bit less dusty after that ...

maybe it's just that if I've bothered to do that I'm in a cleaning mood which means I've done a more thorough job . I figure dust mostly comes down or gets whirled up out of the carpet so a wipe over the ceiling/ walls, hoovering the curtains and leaving it time to settle then hoovering carpet thoroughly before cleaning surfaces underneath seems to help for a few months.

Mainly I try to keep it out in the first place, leaving boots in the kitchen etc. Most of our dust comes from open fire I think to which I have no solution other than clearing it out a lot more regulary, thoroughly and less messily than I do

[oldfella]

Excuse me, whats dust?

[John Headstrong]

umm i think my mum said the only remedy for dust is the ol' elbow grease...daily!
Can't be bothered myself, ask and farm person, it goes with the terrotority!
Most farms have a 'good' room that no-body but visitors ever gets to sit in...no dust because no traffic, door permanantly closed.

I nearly fell out with a good friend who went round checking for dust! Who has time! Our kitchen table only gets wiped down so the kids can do their homework

[Millymollymandy]

Most farms have a 'good' room that no-body but visitors ever gets to sit in...no dust because no traffic, door permanantly closed.

My spare bedroom's like that - maybe I should turn it into the visitor's lounge as it is downstairs opposite the front door.