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It's time to "green" that cleaning routine! Millions of Americans are replacing harsh chemical cleansers with eco-friendly alternatives. Unfortunately, most commercial green cleaners are expensive, and they often come with dubious environmental claims. Effective, nontoxic alternatives can be mixed up easily from kitchen staples baking soda, vinegar, lemon juice, herbs, and borax plus a handful of easy-to-find essential oils. In the second edition of The Naturally Clean Home, Karyn Siegel-Maier offers 150 all-natural recipes for cleaning every area of the home from bathrooms to bedding, and from carpets to cabinetry. Siegel-Maier, a writer specializing in complementary therapies whose work is featured in such publications as Mother Earth News and Natural Living Today, presents quick recipes for cleansers that are nontoxic, biodegradable, and freshsmelling. Formulas are so simple that even a novice can make them, yet they are as effective as the commercial options. Best of all, these recipes are much less expensive than commercial cleaners; most can be made for mere pennies per use. With the second edition of this popular book comes a host of hard-working new recipes, including Rosemary-Geranium Floor Wipes for electrostatic floor mops, Thyme to Make Your Own Carpet Steamer, Weekend Warrior Wicker Wash, Telephone Dirty Talk Tamer, Clear the Air Room Spritzer, and Lavender Lift Automatic Dishwasher Soap. Siegel-Maier also offers recipes for outdoor spaces like Shoo-Fly Shake to keep flies away from your backyard barbecue and covers areas less commonly considered in the cleaning routine: garden, houseplants, computer, even the septic tank! Whether scrubbing or scouring, degreasing or dusting, The Naturally Clean Home makes it fun to mix up chemical-free products that are easy on home and planet!
About the Author
Karyn Siegel-Maier is a freelance writer specializing in herbs, alternative medicine, and health. She has written for many magazines, including Let's Live, Natural Living Today, Real Woman, Mother Earth News, Delicious!, and Better Nutrition. Visit her at www.herbmusings.com.
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This review is from: The Naturally Clean Home: 150 Super-Easy Herbal Formulas for Green Cleaning (Paperback)
I enjoyed this book. Clear and well set up information to make your living space clean and fresh naturally. The book was well thought out, compact and recipes were easy to use. People need to have safer and more natural ways to keep our homes clean and this book is a great guide to assist in doing so.
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the naturally clean home,
This review is from: The Naturally Clean Home: 150 Super-Easy Herbal Formulas for Green Cleaning (Paperback)
Great book lots of good information in it. I had it shipped by mail it was recived it in perfect condition
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I love this book!!!,
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I love this book. Super helpful without being over the top. Easy to find ingredients and the cleaners really work!! Every recipe that I've followed in this book has worked better than anything I find in the store, and they're a ton cheaper too. I would highly recommened this book to anyone who wants to save money and not give up quality cleaning products.
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I love this book!,
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This book contains recipes for any cleaning product a person could ever want to use around their home, including carpet shampoo, laundry soap, garden and pest control (even deer), potpourri and sachets, tarnish remover, wood cleaners and polishes, computers and office equipment, oven cleaner, BBQ grills, wicker, cars, exterior siding (including stone and brick), and garden tools! And all of the ingredients are completely nontoxic. Not only that, it teaches you HOW to do the jobs and properly care for your home and items you own. It is an excellent all-around instruction book for green housekeeping in every sense.
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Here is a recipe. Decide for yourself!,
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Having read that the indoor pollution is far worse than the outdoor pollution because of toxic chemicals present in many of household cleaners, I wanted to switch to using more eco-friendly, non-toxic cleaners. I thought this book might teach me how to make effective cleaning formulas other than mixing baking soda and vinegar. The book does have many formulas for cleaning everything in the house, but so far it hasn't worked well.Here is an example from the book (word for word); No-Scrub toilet bowl cleaner Use this one in toilet bowls that have an everlasting ring around them. (Like the kind you find in the bathroom of your vacation cabin after six months of nonuse.) You can employ this recipe just before going to bed; by morning, even the toughest of stains will have disappeared. 1 cup borax 1 cup vinegar 10 drops pine or lavender essential oil 5 drops lemon or lime essential oil Combine all ingredients in a plastic bowl or bottle and pour all at once into the toilet bowl. Allow to sit overnight. In the morning, just flush! If this formula works for you, then this book is probably right for you. As for me, I flushed the toilet in the morning and the stains were still there, clear as ever. I ended up cleaning with baking soda and vinegar and it did much better job getting rid of the ring. |
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