(re-post)
I saw a woman on her verandah cleaning her windows the other day and that made me think of furniture polish. It wasn't a direct thought – more a meander from spring cleaning to dust bunnies to dry skin to dry wood …. furniture polish.
What about making my own? Good ol Google. Seven million replies in a tenth of a second and most of them mentioned oil and juice. Olive oil and a lemon were in the kitchen.
There was some debate online about the proportions of oil to juice and I got a bit distracted with a link to a recipe for cookies and that led to an interesting blog ……
When polish popped to mind again I headed for the kitchen and poured out some olive oil and squeezed the lemon into it until it looked polishy.
Put some on a cloth and wiped it on some furniture and left it to dry and forgot about it.
When I came home today I immediately noticed how shiny this bureau looked. Wow. It worked.
I cannot say that it had any lemon scent at all which is fine with me; but now I am wondering what a drop or two of lavender oil would do. Hmmm.