What gets out the mess made by leaky pens, oily pizza, and lipstick? The answer: this unmatched book, which is absolutely the only stain-removal guide you'll ever need. It provides a quick and easy reference, from A to Z, to dealing with more than 170 common stains found on clothes, soft furnishings, and upholstery. And not only that: there's information on specific products and fabric types, and money-saving advice on substituting safe, natural cleansers (including a potato!) for expensive commercial ones. Keep it at hand for any disaster, so you'll know whether to use hot water or cold; if soap will get the dirt out or set it forever; how to handle a combination stain; and what to do if bleach splashes onto your favorite shirt.
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Before becoming a writer, Stephanie Zia was a production assistant, researcher and director, working on BBC music, art and anthropological documentaries around the world. After the birth of her daughter in 1994, she stopped moving around so much and published two mum-lit novels, Baby on Board (Platkus 2003) and Keeping Mum (Platkus 2004). She has written for national newspapers, women's magazines and interiors magazines.
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Author of 2 Piatkus commercial fiction novels and 2 Hamlyn non-fiction books, Stephanie has written for a variety of publications. From 2005-11 she was the cleaning guru for The Guardian newspaper's popular Space Solves column. Embracing the independent publishing revolution, Stephanie started blackbirdebooks in 2010 to produce her first ebook. Done & Dusted - The Organic Home On A Budget is a collection of her Guardian columns augmented by a thrifty, healthy household tip guide. Other titles include Love Never Lies, about a 50 year old widow back on the dating scene; The Smile In The Garden With The Starfish, her collected short stories, and Babe On Board a comedy romance about a single 40-year-old first-time mum. As well as epublishing her own books, Stephanie enjoys editing and producing other mid-list authors' titles at blackbirdebooks. She lives in London with her partner and teenage daughter.
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Good book. Disappointed in Amazon shipping.,
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This review is from: Stain Removal: Your Really Useful Guide to Getting Rid of Stains (Hamlyn Pyramid Paperbacks S.) (Paperback)
Book is good. Good information. This item WAS shipped to my military APO, however, VERY VERY disappointed in Amazon's overall, lackluster, unreliable (lack of shipping) to military APO addresses. In general, they've shipped to my military APO address about 60% (if that) of the time - for very basic items. Many purchases were not made because items can't be shipped to me, other items I had to have shipped somewhere else and pay additional shipping to get item mailed to me. Shame on Amazon! Unfortunately I've received NO good answer from Amazon!
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