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Summary: Very thorough.
Review: Annie Berthold-Bond's recommendations for cleaning recipes are compact, exact, and varied. Recipes are included for nearly every cleaning situation encountered in households today. The book may seem short and lacking the discussion typical of many "stay green" books. Don't let this fool you. When you just want to choose a good cleaning recipe (they're conveniently ordered by type of cleaning situtation) using ingredients you probably already have in your home, then this book is the one to choose.
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Summary: No excuses!!
Review: I bought this book a couple months ago and loved it. I showed it to two friends and they want one too! I love making and using my own household cleaners and feel really good about using them. Non-toxic, Earth-friendly cleaners are so easy and inexpensive to make, there's no excuse for anyone to use all those nasty chemicals!
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Summary: A practical guide!
Review: I only bought this book a couple of weeks ago, and have already put many of the recommendations and recipes into practice. It offers easy to understand and implement alternatives for those who want to use enviromentally-friendly alternatives for their home. Also offers a large resource guide for where to find what you need.
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Summary: A practical guide!
Review: I only bought this book a couple of weeks ago, and have already put many of the recommendations and recipes into practice. It offers easy to understand and implement alternatives for those who want to use enviromentally-friendly alternatives for their home. Also offers a large resource guide for where to find what you need.
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Summary: People with environmental illness need this reliable info.
Review: I'm not much interested in housecleaning, but when I read Annie's recipes, I trust her attention to safe and healthy living. Environmental illness,a disease that requires a lot of housecleaning, has forced me to search for safe products, and to use them.I am comforted to find such a reliable and extensive source of information.
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Summary: A must read to detox your life.
Review: Most of us take our homes and our environment within our homes for granted, when in reality, the polutants found in most homes may be adversely affecting the health of many of us. This book offers a lot of great information on how to rid our homes of the offenders and replace them with products that are safer and as a bonus, much less expensive.It was almost too much information and didn't get into enough directions on individual uses while offering way too many choices. However, the basics were there and getting a start with many of the cleansers is easy. Ridding our homes of environmental toxins is extremely important and this book helped me out tremendously. Andrew Keith, author of, Aging Is NOT An Option!
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Summary: This is a very valuable book.
Review: This book changed my life in a small but significant way. I am now free of expensive, polluting ugly-scented cleaning supplies. (Formulas actually cover wood finishes, car cleaning, spot removal, etc. - just about anything you need in this catagory of products.) Annie's recipes are simple, easy to follow and generally employ common ingredients. I simply reuse empty spray and other bottles for the formulas. (One tip is to put the recipe right on the bottle covered with tape - for ease of refill. If success is any sign of the value of a book - the nearly 100,000 people who bought this book have prooved its value!
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Summary: Good information, but way too much for a beginner
Review: This book is good. BUT...there are way too many recipes with no explanations for the beginning green cleaner. I was a little lost in the vast forest of different ways to clean everything. Also, there are no detailed instructions on just how to mix together the ingredients. As Karen Noonan Logan points out in "Clean House, Clean Planet," there are times (especially when mixing baking soda and vinegar) when you must put the ingredients in a specific order for the cleanser to work. Don't get me wrong, this *is* a very good book! Chemically sensitive people and those who already make their own cleansers will find it a valuable source. But, for the beginner, it would probably be better to get "Clean House, Clean Planet" first because it has detailed instructions, some chemistry lessons and effectiveness ratings. After you become more familiar with how green cleaning works, this book would be an excellent addition for more recipes and ideas.
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Summary: Good information, but way too much for a beginner
Review: This book is good. BUT...there are way too many recipes with no explanations for the beginning green cleaner. I was a little lost in the vast forest of different ways to clean everything. Also, there are no detailed instructions on just how to mix together the ingredients. As Karen Noonan Logan points out in "Clean House, Clean Planet," there are times (especially when mixing baking soda and vinegar) when you must put the ingredients in a specific order for the cleanser to work. Don't get me wrong, this *is* a very good book! Chemically sensitive people and those who already make their own cleansers will find it a valuable source. But, for the beginner, it would probably be better to get "Clean House, Clean Planet" first because it has detailed instructions, some chemistry lessons and effectiveness ratings. After you become more familiar with how green cleaning works, this book would be an excellent addition for more recipes and ideas.
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