[brookn]

Pikevi,
My son is almost 10, and the bottle has a special one drop at a time type dispenser. I was thinking he could do the soap and shake the solution. If something costs as dearly as that cinnamon oil did (and is also in a glass bottle) I generally get to be the one touching it. I bought it to use in bath salts that I sometimes make. If an undiluted drop gets on the skin it turns bright red. Diluted it doesn't effect the skin as far as I have noticed. He knows better than to touch certain things, but sometimes it seems he pushes the envelope see how things work.

All of my plants have their own area in my back room with the exception of the phals (I like to keep a close eye on them). It has a concrete floor, and there is a door out to a concrete slab area which is also near the waterhose. I also have the benefit of the laundry room being connected but separate to this room (I converted my carport).

My dends and catt were outside until recently and the dends were sitting on a table by a tree that has a ivy all over it. In fact all of my plants were just brought in recently, my orchids only make up about a 1/4 of my collection. I believe the ivy was carrying the mites, and reinfesting the plants quicker than I could keep them off. The catts were all hanging in a paw paw tree on the other side of the yard and thus were not infested by much of anything as far as I have seen. The phals and my miltonidium are also pest free.

Does Dawn have organophosphates? I use it for several things. Dawn, vinegar, and sometimes bleach is really all I clean with for the most part. Although, because I was a CMA for years, I do occasionally use hospital grade lysol for deep cleaning.

Viv,
To get Safer's Soap I have to order it or drive an hour, so I am making do for the time being. I will get to it though.
It stinks I left the house this mornng at 10:30 a.m. then I was home for 20 minutes to get my homework, then to class and straight to trick or treating until 9:30 p.m. My dogs were really mad, they had to have the kids take care of them after school instead of mom time (big babies). I have even got a few orchids that are acting a little bent today also lol. Well looks like this book is the only post I am getting done for the day-sorry about the length, My name is Brook, they just had to name me for something that babbles.

Thanks ladies and gentleman. I will post some results tomorrow afternoon, I will be trying this on a couple of my other plants (non orchid) also.