This guide to natural housekeeping is full of helpful advice to help you take a more sustainable path and save the planet for future generations. For example, discover how lemons, baking powder, vinegar, and water can replace the need for nasty chemical cleaning products. The old-fashioned methods described here are complemented by newer ideas and innovations, and applied not only to cleaning but also to restoring furniture and woodwork, and decorating. Also, learn how to grow and use vegetables, fruit, and herbs to make delicious treats, beauty preparations, and herbal remedies. • Follow the advice in Natural Housekeeping and find yourself living a calmer, greener life. • Enjoy the special satisfaction of preparing food you have grown yourself—fertilized with home-made compost. • You can live just as well, if not better—and probably less expensively—without hurting yourself or the planet.
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Christina Strutt runs Cabbages & Roses, a fabric company that specializes in historic rural printed fabrics for fashion, accessories, and interiors. Cabbages & Roses has three shops in London and one in Tokyo, plus outlets in selected Jigsaw stores, and all products are available worldwide through their website www.cabbagesandroses.com. Her previous books include Vintage Crafts, A Green Guide to Natural Housekeeping, At Home with Country, and Vintage Chic, all published by CICO Books. The author is based in Bath, UK.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By Janet Eder
Format:Paperback
This book was so interesting that I am ordering 3 more copies for each one of my sisters. I actually am now using only natures products to clean my home such as vinagar, lemon, and baking soda. I have honestly thrown away all the chemical cleaning product under my sink and I'm washing my clothes with baking soda and vinagar. Believe me this book can change a persons life just reading the 1st two chapters.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By C. Taymor
Format:Paperback
I love this book, and I use it all the time. It has a wonderful collection of recipes and ideas about housekeeping, along with beautiful photographs. It has a lot more information in its pages than some similar books. It is not so much a guide to green housekeeping, but a guide to housekeeping, that in its very nature is green. A delightful read, and I use this book on a regular basis to look up different cleaning recipes.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Many good ideas and well-know recipes in France, but I learned new stuff anyway and I think this book is very useful to save money and spare our planet.
I am also a big fan of Cabbages & Roses which belongs to the author. It is very English, beautiful, handy, useful, smart, clever as is this book.
The pictures are cool and beautiful (even if the paper is recycled) and the explanations so simple and easy to use.
I recommend strongly, by hoping people will be more aware of the importance of sparing and being "more natural".
Yael from Los Angeles
I am also a big fan of Cabbages & Roses which belongs to the author. It is very English, beautiful, handy, useful, smart, clever as is this book.
The pictures are cool and beautiful (even if the paper is recycled) and the explanations so simple and easy to use.
I recommend strongly, by hoping people will be more aware of the importance of sparing and being "more natural".
Yael from Los Angeles
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Mimi
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A Guide to Green Housekeeping is not only wonderfully informative and very useful, it has lovely and pleasing photography on just about every page. From kitchen to garden to gifts, this book covers it all.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By mihaela
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I really like it. it has good advice and beautiful photos. I love coming back to it from time to time.
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Love this book as it has all sorts of environmentally safe housekeeping ideas. Highly recommend this book if you want to try going green
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Obviously this isn't the type of book one reads cover to cover. Saw it first at William Sonoma for much more and decided to buy it as a gift for my 26 year old who seems to like it very much.
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I ordered 2 copies of this book. Both arrived in excellent condition. Shipping was also on time as estimated. Thank you. When ordering books I am mostly interested that they are in clean and very good condition. I purchase them for myself and to give as gifts.
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