We love making our own cheap, safe, and effective home cleaning products and cleaning equipment to protect our health and the health of our planet. 

Materials:

• Old thick stockings, tights or socks
• A wooden board (at least 16-20cm (6-8”) per side)
• 20 nails
• scissors
• a hammer
• a pencil
• a ruler
• a protractor or try square

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How to make your reusable tawashi board:

• Use your pencil, ruler and try square to draw out a 14cm (5.6 inches) square on your wooden board.
• Use your pencil to mark dots along the square: the first dots need to be 3cm (1.2 inches) from each corner of the square; the other dots need to be spaced out 2cm (0.8 inches) from each other (see image).
• With your hammer, firmly plant the nails into the board onto each of the 20 dots.

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How to make your own eco-friendly dish sponge:

• Cut your socks, tights or stockings into 10 rings up to 8cm (3 inches) thick.
• Attach the rings to the nails vertically: start by securing one ring to the nail closest to you on the left and stretching it to attach it to the opposite nail furthest from you on the left. Attach 4 more rings vertically (see image).
• Weave the remaining rings horizontally in and out of the vertical rings: start by attaching a ring to the top left nail on the left side of the square and pass it over the first vertical ring, under the second vertical ring, over, under and over and then hook it to the opposite top right nail on the right side of the square. Attach 4 more rings horizontally, but weaving the opposite way with each new ring: Horizontal rings 2 and 4 would be under, over, under, over, under. (see image).
• Unhook any ring from its nail, then unhook a second ring right next to it. Pass the second ring into the first ring. Hold on to the second ring and let go of the first ring. The second ring now becomes the “first ring”. Continue this step all around your square. Tighten as you go, as needed.
• The final ring that you end up with is the hook that you’ll use to hang and dry your tawashi sponge!

Keep your wooden board to make more tawashi scrubbers for your household and your friends!