Great Guy Presents (You can Make)

Great Guy Presents (You can Make)

Many of the men in my life have been celebrating birthdays.  I have been in need of gifts, really awesome, useful gifts.  My dad has been repainting his barn with oil based paint, which he has been cleaning off with mineral spirits.  Repeat after me, "Petroleum products are not healthy for me." My brother-in-law is an avid griller/smoker and a close family friend is an auto mechanic.  All these gents were in need of . . . 

Handy Man Handy Wipes

Supplies:

20 Thick paper towels (I used Bounty select-a-size)

Spouted measuring cup

Table Spoon

Quart sized freezer bag

Ingredients:  

 Olive oil

liquid dish soap (I used Ivory)

Lemon essential oil - 5 drops

Cedar wood essential oil - 3 drops *

1/2 cup distilled water (not interchangeable)

*Ceder wood EO is for the manly scent of it all.  Cedar wood EO has anti-bacterial and other cleaning properties but the real grease cutting star of the show is Lemon EO.

Step One: Label Freezer bag.  Count and fold the paper towels 

I counted out 20 paper towels. Next I folded each one so that it was slightly narrower than the freezer bag.  I slightly offset the fold and then alternate the sheets like so. . . 

After all 20 are folded and stacked. . . 

Step Two:  Place the stack into the freezer bag. 

Step Three:  Measure the ingredients and stir gently so as to not make bubbles. Your mixture will look like this just before it is stirred. 

Step Four:  Pour the liquid ingredients into the freezer bag over the paper towels.  Zip the freezer bag and squish the liquid to evenly distribute.  The wicking action of the paper towels will distribute the liquid.  Open a very small section of the zipper and roll the paper towels up to remove as much air as possible.  Rezip the freezer bag. 

Step Five:  Decide how to wrap your gift. Next week's post:  Up cycle wrapping,