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Clean and Green: The Complete Guide to Non-Toxic and Environmentally Safe Housekeeping |  | Author: Annie Berthold-Bond
Publisher: Ceres Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 80097
Media: Paperback
Edition: Updated
Pages: 162
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.3
ISBN: 1886101019
Dewey Decimal Number: 640
EAN: 9781886101012
ASIN: 1886101019
Publication Date: January 1994
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485 ways to clean, polish, disinfect, deodorize, launder, remove stains, even wash your car, without harming yourself or the environment. Recipes based on harmless, nonpolluting, renewable ingredients. 160 pages, recycled paper/vegetable ink, paperback.
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 No excuses!! February 19, 1999
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
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!
Very thorough. October 19, 1998
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
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.
Life without bleach! Amen. Amen. August 14, 2005
Glacier Mom
47 out of 55 found this review helpful
[I'm amending my review because I recently read the following in the summer '08 "Wise Traditions" journal: "Beware of suggestions that you keep it simple and natural by using Borax. Never expose yourself to boron-containing solutions repeatedly or for extended periods of time. People have died from overexposure to boric acid..." It should be noted that many of the recipes in this book rely on Borax, and though I have not researched Borax toxicity, it's worth noting; also, I don't recall any suggestions on avoiding skin contact when using the pure 'n natural cleaning solutions, though it's been awhile since I've read the book.]
You need this book, even if-like me-you really don't clean much at all, because you spend all your time with your intense, mess-creating toddler instead. If you're pregnant or have small children at home, this is the book you've been looking for. If you employ a cleaning service, you still need this book. If, like me, you say to yourself-why do I need to make my own cleaning products when I can now buy earth-friendly toilet bowl cleaner at my local discount chain store?-you still need this book.
I love this book. What I like best about the book is Annie Berthold-Bond's aesthetic sensibility; one can tell that (prior to pesticide exposure and her new activist role) she was an artist. She writes lovingly of how using her favorite furniture polish (1/8 cup linseed oil, 1/8 cup vinegar, ¼ cup lemon juice) induces daydreams of favorite 19th century novels. Berthold-Bond's excellent little book makes me daydream of novels, too, the type where the fortunate heroine hires some worthy, stout-hearted local matron to keep house and always returns to a freshly-scrubbed kitchen and a pot of boiling hot tea. Uh-huh.
The other day I had one of those days where the toddler didn't nap and I never got a break, but somehow I managed to mix olive oil, vinegar and a drop of essential oil and polish the kitchen table (lovingly-believe it or not-with a great leopard-print rag made from an old dress), all the while talking to the toddler and her puppets. The polish felt good on my hands. That same day I did a load of laundry in castile soap and strong rosemary tea, which smelled divine. Secret indulgences of the at-home mom! The book tempts me into philosophical reveries about the sacramental possibilities in routine tasks-to a point, and then my feminist ire rises, since house-cleaning has always been one of those knotty war-of-the-sexes issues in my marriage, which we've generally solved by not cleaning at all. But if the lion's share of cleaning is mine, that's OK, because my husband's Calvinist upbringing means he'd not easily relinquish toxic petrochemicals. (Oh the irony of an inherently messy and Dionysian man who inoculates grape juice with yeast for a living but fears microbes like sin.)
Another point: I realized after reading this book that I really never knew how to clean a house. Berthold-Bond discusses procedures that have never occurred to me in ten years of marriage, like washing walls and cleaning metals or routine drain maintenance. I've never been the green "type," which I associate with dreadlocks and ugly shoes and a kill-joy lifestyle, but having a child put me in touch with certain life-giving instincts. I bought the book after seeing it in a Montessori catalogue (all those little kids polishing metal-just shy of exploitation-just kidding) and thought I'd give it a try. It's wonderful.
A practical guide! November 4, 1999
Nancy Cozadd
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
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.
Another Great "Green Cleaning Book" July 28, 2008
Marie Wagner (Gilbert, AZ)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I disagree with the review that this book has no "recipes" on how to use everyday household cleaning items, example: Chapter 9 is about metal cleaning.The "recipes" start at number 96 and go to number 158. Each of these numbers describe different ways to clean metal like stainless steel, copper, gold, bronze, brass, etc. Number 104 is for brass, bronze and copper and it says, "2 tablespoons salt, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 tablespoon vinegar....." Maybe they were writing about the wrong book?
I really like this book as it does tell you the amounts to use and what to use to clean everything you can think of - Metals, bathroom, furniture, floors, carpets, walls, laundry, cars and kitchen. They tell you the supermarket name for items and the natural food store names for products. How to eliminate commercial products and why and transitions you to natural cleaning.
Definitely a GREAT addition to my 3 other "green cleaning" type books. All have something in them the others don't!
Clean and Green: The Complete Guide to Non-Toxic and Environmentally Safe Housekeeping
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