From flora@flora.comSat Feb 10 00:33:04 1996
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 20:33:58 -0500 (EST)
From: flora@flora.com, flora@flora.com
Reply to: Community_Forestry_Discussion <Tree-House@lists.umbc.edu>
To: Community Forestry Discussion <tree-house@lists.umbc.edu>
Subject: TH: Murphy's Oil Soap.

 Evening Friends,

 The weather here in Baltimore is improving by the minute ! A
 couple years back our Tree Tribe was concerned with the question
 of how we could control insect pests without inflicting worse
 damage on our dear trees than the bugs would have done themselves.

 One theory emerged which utilized a widely available home-cleaning
 liquid called Murphy's Oil Soap.  (Hey Mr. G. Wiz -- remember this
 one ? And again, our 'forest' in this case is urban street trees.)
 What we hoped was that Murphy's might be a safe, effective alter-
 native to the expensive 'organic' plant-soaps that one can purchase
 from the fancy garden centers.  Eventually I called Murphy, and
 wrote down the following recipe, which was read to me over the phone.

 These notes are a few years old.  They probably contain errors, and
 Murphy may have changed formulae by this time -- but for the curious:

  1.  Water                          2.  Tall Oil (Pine Derivative)
  3.  Potassium Hydroxide            4.  Fragrance (Citrus - Secret)
  5.  Cocamidopropyl Amine Oxide     6.  Hydroxysultaine
  7.  Triethanolamine                8.  Alcohol
  9.  Tetra-Sodium EDTA             10.  Color (Inorganic, Non-Metal Dye)

 And while on the subject of Organic Gardening - I'm thinking of placing
 a small classified in the magazine of that name, so that folks who may
 have e-mail, but without WWW access, can hear about our discussion list.
 You'll recall that OGMag is published by the eco-progressive Rodale Press.

 Richard@Flora.Com