3 Months Later...

Eco Cleaning

Do you remember the 'eco-cleaning' project that I endeavoured last August? Well, the results were revealed yesterday as we looked into the concoction. Surprise,surprise,surprise.

Yes, the ingredients were simple ... fruit peels (not banana though), gula merah and water...but the fermentation process resulted in a solution which claims to be effective for cleaning, healing and fertilising.

The container was sealed with a date...so we could have opened a little too late...27 November.

Guess what... we sieved and found maggots thriving healthily in the solution. I was told that there shouldn't be maggots but in the event if they were found...I should add more gula merah. The maid said she didn't observe anything strange until a couple of weeks ago when maggots gathered? How did it happen? Could they have formed from the peels? Or maybe when the cap was released for the gas to escape, flies could have cropped in? Anyway, never mind. We solved the problem by sieving the solution a couple of times.

The final result was still as pleasing...solution to clean...the eco way.

Back to the maggots? or are they worms? They say in the land of China where people comsume the most exotic concoctions...will these maggots also serve a possible one ? After all, the sago worms in Sabah and Sarawak are consumed in great delight !

The strangest thing that we discovered was the maggots survived in concerntrated sulphuric acid! Dad poured the acid into a container to kill the maggots but they did not show signs of death! The eco solution must be super acidic for them to thrive so excellently and it only proves that the eco solution is just as concentrated as the sulphuric acid! I am no science-based but is there a scientific story to this ? Your fingers would have been burnt if you were to dip into the sulphuric acid and yet the maggots survived. Dad miscalculated the move as he should have fed the worms to the fishes ! Finally we had to pour hot boiling water over the maggots to get the problem over with.

Incidentally, I had another concoction made in a smaller container which was placed in the store room unlike the previous bigger container which was placed outside the house but under shade. The eco solution in the latter container did not show signs of maggots but we still sieved it.

The final product of the process culminated in the below ...impressive? So we have been told that we need to add half a pail of water to 2 capfuls of the eco solution for cleaning purposes and we know the reason now...very acidic. Ants and mosquitoes are afraid of the solution and wounds heal well. But when you water plants with the solution ; remember to add sufficient water or else you may just kill them. Magical ? No need to buy cleaning solutions anymore. Try?

Go Eco...Reuse, Reduce, Recycle, Rethink...