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Green This!: Greening Your Cleaning (Green This #1)
by
Deirdre Imus
Change the way you clean and keep your family's home wholesome and healthy with the help of expert and activist Deirdre Imus.
We all grew up thinking chemical smells like bleach and ammonia signaled "clean." But as Deirdre Imus reveals, some of the chemicals we use to maintain our homes are doing us and our families much more harm than good. In "Greening You
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Published
April 10th 2007
by Simon & Schuster
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I ended up doing a lot of skimming in this one. Too much "your cleaning products are filled with TOXINS!!!!!!111111!!!" just gets annoying after awhile. Half the book was why cleaning products are toxic and all the bad things they can do to you. Well, sometimes you have to make a choice. Do I want to spend an hour scrubbing burned-on grime off of my gas stove grates with a nylon sponge, or do I want to use oven cleaner and get it done with far less effort and better results? I don...more
I didn't care for this book too much. I was looking for recipes and practical tips on how to clean more naturally, and what I got was a deluge of information on toxins (which I'd already briefed myself on) and a continuing plug for the author's line of cleaning products (so annoying!). I think there are better books on green cleaning out there.
This book is worth while for anybody who has realized just how inundated our lives are with unregulated hazardous chemicals - often known or suspected carcinogens, neuro-toxins and endocrine (hormone) disruptors.
The fact is that many, if not all, of our daily cleaning and personal care products contain these toxins. And while these toxins have the potential to affect us greatly, they affect children even more. And, as it happens, the environment usually gets screwed too.
When you stop to th...more
The fact is that many, if not all, of our daily cleaning and personal care products contain these toxins. And while these toxins have the potential to affect us greatly, they affect children even more. And, as it happens, the environment usually gets screwed too.
When you stop to th...more
This book is worth while for anybody who has realized just how inundated our lives are with unregulated hazardous chemicals - often known or suspected carcinogens, neuro-toxins and endocrine (hormone) disruptors.
The fact is that many, if not all, of our daily cleaning and personal care products contain these toxins. And while these toxins have the potential to affect us greatly, they affect children even more. And, as it happens, the environment usually gets screwed too.
When you stop to th...more
The fact is that many, if not all, of our daily cleaning and personal care products contain these toxins. And while these toxins have the potential to affect us greatly, they affect children even more. And, as it happens, the environment usually gets screwed too.
When you stop to th...more
This book is worth while for anybody who has realized just how inundated our lives are with unregulated hazardous chemicals - often known or suspected carcinogens, neuro-toxins and endocrine (hormone) disruptors.
The fact is that many, if not all, of our daily cleaning and personal care products contain these toxins. And while these toxins have the potential to affect us greatly, they affect children even more. And, as it happens, the environment usually gets screwed too.
...more
The fact is that many, if not all, of our daily cleaning and personal care products contain these toxins. And while these toxins have the potential to affect us greatly, they affect children even more. And, as it happens, the environment usually gets screwed too.
...more
Ashleigh and I discovered this gem within one day of each other and both plan to read it, or at least browse it at our local bookshop. If you watch that Ed Begley, Jr. show or you happened to see An Inconvenient Truth, your inner environmental conscience starts to mess with you...
Here's the B&N blurb:
"We all grew up thinking chemical smells like bleach and ammonia signaled "clean." But as Deirdre Imus reveals, some of the chemicals we use to maintain our homes a...more
Here's the B&N blurb:
"We all grew up thinking chemical smells like bleach and ammonia signaled "clean." But as Deirdre Imus reveals, some of the chemicals we use to maintain our homes a...more
I can sum up my reaction to this book with the following phrase: Holy crap! It scared the heck out of me with its message of doom. Basically, all the products we use to clean our homes and even wear on our bodies are full of toxic chemicals that most likely are the cause of increased cases of cancer and childhood diseases. Deirdre Imus has remodeled her entire life to rid herself of the chemicals, and the book is her instruction manual for us to do the same.
She concedes that th...more
She concedes that th...more
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Informative book about why chemicals in our cleaners are dangerous (especially for our children) and how we can clean in a safer, more ecologically friendly way.
It was interesting, but over half of the book is about all the bad things chemicals in our cleaning supplies can do to us. One of the main recommendations was to buy 'organic' cleaners. There was some information on making your own cleaners, but that was what I hoped most of the book would be about. Motivating, but not as ...more
It was interesting, but over half of the book is about all the bad things chemicals in our cleaning supplies can do to us. One of the main recommendations was to buy 'organic' cleaners. There was some information on making your own cleaners, but that was what I hoped most of the book would be about. Motivating, but not as ...more
I did like this book better than the Go Green, Live Rich book. I found the information more interesting and am somewhat motivated to buy "Green" cleaning products. This lady is a true believer though and passionate about her cause. Good thing I spose, she's done a lot of good. She offers some really great tips.
This book was well researched and explains why chemicals in daily cleaning products we all use in our home are harmful to our families. I would disagree with other reviewers who felt that she was only trying to sell her line of cleaning products. This was a very good book, although it needs an index.
Highly recommend this as well as her third edition: "The Essential Green You!" It will change the way you look at household cleaning agents, beauty products, and food! All the better for your environment.
I did alot of skimming on this book, alot of info, when i really wanted to get to what are the alternatives that wont break the bank and smell offensive, some good tips, but way too long of a read to get info that i wanted.
I gave this book 4 stars only because of the great ideas to clean things w/ green products. The advice is good, but rest of the book wasn't the most well written. You pretty much can clean anything w/ baking soda, lemon juice, and vinegar. It's scary about the chemicals that are in cleaning products.
Lame, lame, and totally lame. Readers need to dig through the author's shameless self-promotion and recommendations of expensive products to find any practical tips.
Fantastic.....it really shows us that we need to replace those toxic cleaners with NATURAL products!
wonderfully written, well reasearched. Great and easy ideas to implement right away.
3.5 stars. This book was informative, although a little too alarmist for my taste. Also, I would have liked more information about homemade cleaning products.
With this last pregnancy, my "mild" chemical sensitivity was kicked up to "totally annoying." I can't be around perfume, bleach, bathroom and kitchen cleaners, etc. Nor can I use anti-persperant, but that's another story. This book talks about how dangerous all those cleaners are, not just for people who are bothered by them, but for all people, especially our young children. She gives practical suggestions, which are few, because you really don't need all that much to ke...more
LOts of good things to try and green up your home
Informative.
my bible.
I did read all her cancer statistics, because I knew they would only stress me out. As weird as it sounds, until my husband told me last year, I had no idea vinegar cleaned. And until I read this book, I also had no idea, that Windex might have toxic chemicals in it, the bright blue color never indicated that too me. I always thought it was a mild cleaner safe for anything. It was a good read because I was looking for less ways to have my family ingest chemicals.
More infomercial for the author's cleaning products than green clean how-to, this book felt flat and uninspiring.
Too much background noise about toxins and the oh-so-wonderful things the author is doing as a celebrity. Not nearly enough practical how-to.
That said, many of the "recipes" are straightforward and easy to apply. In fact, they're all things my mom was doing back in the '70s and '80s, and she wasn't a hippie. For me, it didn't feel fresh.
Too much background noise about toxins and the oh-so-wonderful things the author is doing as a celebrity. Not nearly enough practical how-to.
That said, many of the "recipes" are straightforward and easy to apply. In fact, they're all things my mom was doing back in the '70s and '80s, and she wasn't a hippie. For me, it didn't feel fresh.
A great book for anyone who is trying to go Green with cleaning!
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Great reference guide to those who really want to try and make a difference in the environment and their own home starting with their home. As someone who has a dog and cat, family members (including my husband) who have allergies and just for our overall health it has great tips for reducing cleaning pollutants and helps you save money too.
This book has some good insights and recipes, but I have a list of recipes for home cleaning products I acquired from a community class that I really love. If anyone wants them, let me know and I'll email them out. They are so, so cheap to create and work really well--without all the gas masks and fumes. :)
I wasn't as impressed with this book as I hoped I'd be. I wanted to see more strategies/ideas/recipes for cleaning but I felt more like I was being lectured. I learned a lot of good things that I will use, for sure, but I wouldn't go out and buy this book. Definitely a library read.
Helpful ideas for how to eliminate toxins from your environment and green your cleaning. My favorite tip is to put a few drops of essential oils on a tissue and then to put it in your vacuum cleaner bag. It infuses your entire house naturally.
I love most of the ideas of using natural, non toxic cleaners from this book. She is, however, a little on the radical side for this eco-friendly beginner! I may take just a few steps at a time, and when I do, this book will be a good resource!
Lots of great ideas for cleaning green. I switched from bleach, toilet bowl cleaner and soft soap to baking soda and lemon juice have never looked back. Its a necessary read if we are going to stop polluting every time we clean our bathrooms.
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Deirdre Imus is the Founder and President of The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology® at Hackensack University Medical Center and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids with Cancer. Deirdre is the author of two New York Times bestsellers -- the newest book in the Green This! series, Growing Up Green, Baby and Child Care; a practical family guide to raisin...more
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