Home Hints & Tips

by Rosamond Richardson-Gerson

Create a natural, safe, and healthy living environment for you and your family

Cut down on toxins in home decorating with natural paints • Get tough on stains with safe cleaning products • Cut down on waste with reusing & recycling advice • Discover natural and safe products for your family's laundry • make your own creams and lotions • Learn more about what's in the beauty products we buy • Select and care for your soft furnishings the natural way • Sift through the food labeling minefield to find out what constitutes healthy food • household bills with energy-saving hints • Find out about friendly baby-care products

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference

192 pages, Paperback

First published February 14, 2003

Reviews

[Darby · Rating 4 out of 5]

Product Review from Amazon - "The first in-depth book on "green" products for the home, Home Hints & Tips offers hundreds of tested tips that are safe, gentle on the environment, affordable, and easy to implement. Straightforward without being preachy, the book covers all aspects of natural home management, from designing and building to decorating with natural materials, as well as ecosafe cleaning and laundering methods, recycling, gardening, cooking, and personal care and health."

I will tell you this book freaked the hell out of me. It freaked me out because it goes into toxins that are in your house right now....the paint, the carpet, many cleaners and pesticides and so on and so forth. Not like I really didn't know it but reading about what they do which the book goes into a little bit freaked me. But after freaking, I calmed down and I really enjoyed it the book. Enjoyed it for all the useful information it did give me. I think some of it is a little bit out of the average persons budget. But there were workable ideas and tips. The set up of the book is very visually appealing too. Broken into good segments.

The book gives information on having a green home: conserving water and energy, decorating, cleaning, laundry and recycling. It goes beyond the home though to healthy natural/organic eating, personal care such as understanding labels for your personal care products, natural health remedies, baby care and also working from home. So it is a tiny book that covers a lot of information. It is a book I would like to have on my bookshelf.

[Caro · Rating 4 out of 5]

This wasn't really short, but it was to-the-point. I loved the 'recipes' and that basically all of them contained about all of the same things. There were some great tips and tricks that I hadn't known about and there were some things I would like to try. I liked the cleaning, beauty, relaxing, home remedies, and pet 'recipes'. A lot of stuff that was needed is something you would most likely already have in home (minus essential oils for the pretty stuff). This is something I would definitely refer to if I owned it. As it is, I ended up taking lots of notes so I would have the info on hand if needed. A great help-read and not too overwhelming with info that's a little new to me. Great instructions that were clear and understandable and good pictures. Enjoy

[Vivian · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well organized, readable, amply illustrated with photos -- definitely for the "green consumer". It is certainly not a definitive list of green products, but it DOES raise awareness.