The Naturally Clean Home, 3rd Edition: 150 Nontoxic Recipes for Cleaning and Disinfecting with Essential Oils - Paperback

by Karyn Siegel-Maier (Author)

In this updated edition of her best-selling book, The Naturally Clean Home, Karyn Siegel-Maier brings together the formulas for home cleaning solutions that readers have trusted for years with new information and ingredients updated to today's green standards. A new introduction shines a light on the antiseptic properties of essential oils, addressing different grades of oil and their effectiveness against bacteria and viruses, as well as updated safety precautions and cost. Updated recipes eliminate Borax (banned as a food additive in the US and from cosmetic and cleaning products in the EU) from ingredient lists, replacing it with safe substitutes that include citric acid powder, hydrogen peroxide, diatomaceous earth, cornstarch, washing soda, and baking soda. New recipes show readers how to make easy, nontoxic, environmentally friendly substitutes for popular cleaning products, including molded laundry and dishwasher tablets. Packaging updates emphasize the use of glass containers for homemade cleaning products, to diminish environmental impact of plastic waste.

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Simple Formulas for a Safe and Healthy Home

It's easy to make your own powerful, all-natural, sweet-smelling household cleaners. By pairing common kitchen ingredients, such as baking soda, vinegar, and lemon, with the antimicrobial properties of essential oils, you can create formulas to safely and effectively:

- Scrub and disinfect surfaces
- Clean floors
- Wash laundry
- Clean and sanitize phones, computers, and tablets
- Clean and deodorize carpets
- And much more.

Includes a recipe for rosemary-mint hand sanitizer!