An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Cleaning
Clean House, Clean Planet
Very simple formulas for making your own cleaning products.
Most are made from baking soda, vinegar, liquid soap, lemons, essential oils, borax, olive oil, club soda, and water. Instructions are easy to follow. Includes recipes for pretty much everything you need to clean around your house. You'll save money too.
Naturally Clean
An inside view of toxic and natural cleaning products from one of the top manufacturers of natural cleaners.
The strength of this book is that it focuses on cleaning products and is written by folks who make cleaning products, so they really understand the subject. After the introductory chapters repeat a lot of what you may already know about toxic chemicals in general from reading other books, the chapters on the dangers of specific ingredients used in cleaning products and the challenges natural cleaners face bring new information. Then a room-by-room guide tells how to clean everything--how to make cleaners yourself, choose the least toxic commercial products, and what tools to use. Closing chapters tell of specific dangers to children and how to improve indoor air quality overall. And at the end is a very short list of recommended natural cleaning products.
Baking Soda
Arm & Hammer should just give this book away.
You really can clean almost anything with baking soda, and this book tells you how.
Clean & Green
More than 500 recipes for natural, homemade cleaning products.
When I was asked to write the forward to this book, I happily agreed. I would have written this book if Annie hadn't beat me to it! It simply contains pages and pages and pages of formulas for making your own cleaning solutions from natural, healthful, and environmentally-safe substances. Annie started by identifying safe substances, then said, "How can I use these to clean?" I consider this book to be a classic that should be in every natural home. It's just good, basic, common sense--nontoxic cleaners we can mix ourselves in our kitchens. No plastic bottles, no toxic chemicals.
