Mexican Mothers' 25 BANNED Borax Hacks from the 60s That Scientists Now Say Were GENIUS

📖 Get The Old Mexican Way, every old way written down: https://oldmexicanway.com There is a green and orange box on the bottom shelf of the laundry aisle with twenty mules on the front, and you have walked past it your whole life. In my mother's house in the sixties it lived on the highest shelf in the kitchen, in a glass jar with BÓRAX painted on the lid. THE TRUE "BANNED" STORY: in 1902 the government's "Poison Squad" ate food laced with the preservatives of the day, and borax was the first thing they tested. After that, borax left the food of this country, and it never came back. In 2010 Europe put a warning on it, because in large amounts over a long time it can harm a pregnancy, and limited it in family products. That is the whole ban. It was never a secret pamphlet. THE RULES, BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE: it is not food. Labeled jar, highest shelf, out of every reach of children and pets. Pour gently so the dust does not rise. Gloves for long soaks. If you are expecting a baby, let someone else do the borax jobs. THE 25, GRADED HONESTLY: 🧺 THE LAUNDRY: 1. the wash booster in hard water · 2. the collar paste · 3. the baby bibs and burp cloths, rinsed twice · 4. the yellowed linens and servilletas · 5. the work clothes pre-soak · 6. the sour towels (full stripping method on my cleaning channel) 🛁 THE BATHROOM: 7. the toilet ring overnight · 8. the grout (full method on my cleaning channel) · 9. surface mildew on the shower ceiling (a leak is a professional) 🍳 THE KITCHEN: 10. a spoon in the bottom of the trash can (a 1914 federal farm bulletin: borax killed fly larvae) · 11. the slow drain, honestly sized · 12. cloudy glasses from hard water · 13. ⛔ THE REFRIGERATOR: never leave borax on the shelves where food sits, whatever a video told you. Bicarbonato and a rinse. 🐜 THE PESTS: 14. ants: 1 tablespoon in 1½ cups warm sugar water on a cotton ball in a bottle cap, weak on purpose so she carries it home · 15. roaches: thin as flour, never a pile · 16. fleas in the carpet, after the vet, never on the animal · 17. silverfish in the dry cracks · 18. ❌ MICE: borax does not stop a mouse. That one was never true. 🏠 THE HOUSE: 19. bare wood that stays dry, against termites and rot (active termites = a professional, today) · 20. the tarnished silver on foil (bicarbonato works just as well) 🌱 THE GARDEN: 21. boron for cracked tomatoes, a pinch once a season, only after a soil test, never twice · 22. weeds in far sidewalk cracks only; it travels with the rain like salt · 23. ⛔ never in the chicken coop · 24. ⛔ never as a seed soak 🌹 25. The flowers: two parts cornmeal to one part borax in a shoebox, ten days, and the quinceañera roses stay red for thirty years. Who profits: the booster, the brightener, the stain stick, the hard water rinse, the ant bait in a plastic house with borax or its cousin inside at ten times the price, the mildew spray. Every one of them has a refill. Tonight, do one: buy the box, pour some into a glass jar, write BÓRAX on the lid, put it on the highest shelf. Then one cotton ball of ant bait in a bottle cap on the ant road, far from little hands. Tell me what YOUR mother used borax for, and your county or state. I read every one. I am not a doctor. Borax is not food and is not for skin, children, pets or pregnancy. Household uses only