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And if you're lucky there may be a store in your area that sells most of that without the containers - the one in my area has big barrels of the stuff with spigots or pumps on them. You bring your own containers and they weigh them and you fill them yourself.

So far they just do cleaning products, which I suppose makes sense - they're shelf stable and not much of a risk of making someone sick if they get mixed. It's a small thing but I get our dishwasher powder and Castile soap there. And we use different mixes of the Castile for laundry detergent, hand soap, face soap, an an all purpose cleaner.

Absolutely! Other useful and cheap cleaning things are rubbing alcohol, white vinegar (great for floors), "washing soda", borax, and seconding @JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net about the castille soap, too. I also find sea salt a useful-everywhere ingredient in both household and personal-care cleaning -- it dissolves dirt, scrubs and disinfects. I'm a pretty picky cleaner, but with those things and a good microfiber cloth, no dirt stands a chance.

I got into making all my own cleaning stuff thanks to a sensitivity to chemical fragrances, but it's saved so much money and prevented so much waste compared to buying branded products, I'd never go back. Thanks for the great topic \o/