Green Cleaning For Dummies
category: Going Green
- ISBN13: 9780470391068
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
An authoritative guide to reducing household exposure to hazardous chemicals
Thousands of household products contain toxic ingredients. Today, more and more people are seeking more natural cleaning methods to reduce their exposure to harsh chemicals. From the kitchen and bath to the living room and laundry, Green Cleaning For Dummies provides readers with green solutions to every common cleaning chore. Focusing on organic, nontoxic, sustainable alternatives to conventional cleaning products, it’s packed with suggestions and tips for effective cleaning, and even offers green solutions for sprucing up patios, garages, vehicles, and the exterior of a house.
Do not be fooled by the “for Dummies” marketing or nomenclature, this is a very reasoned and well thought out book. Though the main focus is on green cleaning, there are many ideas in this book which can help in green living and in minimizing our resource consumption.
Going through this book helped me rethink several aspects of cleanliness that we often overlook – dust mites etc in your pillows/bedding and window curtains/drapes; the usefulness of sunlight as a cleaning agent; the deception behind the new car smell and so on. It gets these ideas across in a thoughtful manner, in going beyond the green washing that companies often use nowadays and understand the real impact of a consumer choice – Is a local non-organic apple better than an organic apple from far away Chile?
More practically it offers several solutions for maintaining a healthy living condition. The chapter on home “recipes” for day to day cleaning agents is useful.
Rating: 5 / 5