Home Hints & Tips
The new guide to natural, safe and healthy living
Published on 6. March 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-7513-3690-0 (ISBN)
Description
Practical information about running a natural, safe, and healthy home. Covers cleaning, food, decorating, DIY, energy consumption, laundry, personal remedies and much more. The end result promises a clean, efficient and well-run home that positively nutures its inhabitants.
Reviews / Votes
Rosamond Richardson has been living a "green", environmentally-friendly life since 1984 and has written many books on its various aspects from vegetarian cookery and yoga to general health and well-being. In "Home Hints and Tips", she brings all these subjects together, sharing her ideas and methods for living a healthier life, using natural products to avoid further contamination to our planet. From cleaning, buying appliances, recycling, child and pet care, composting and growing your own vegetables, Rosamond gives pertinent tips and suggestions to doing it in a greener way. Attractively presented with a "dip in and read" format, it is full of useful titbits: how to remove grease from clothes, limescale from taps, looking after linen and silk, cooking healthy food and natural remedies. Occasionally over-the-top in her efforts to be environmentally friendly, this is nevertheless an invaluable reference for today's more consciously-aware lifestyles. - Lucy WatsonMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
512 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7513-3690-0 (9780751336900)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Rosamond Richardson has written over 20 books on vegetarian cooking, including 'Natural Superwoman'. In 1994 she joined forces with Linda McCartney, becoming her food consultant, and collaborating author. Rosamond's most recent books are 'The Natural Home' and 'New Woman: A Survival Guide to Growing Older'. Rosamond now lives in rural Essex.
Content
Home basics: the natural home; conserving water; air quality. Saving energy: lighting; heat and insulation; household appliances; travel. Decorating and furnishing: painting and decorating; soft furnishings; synthetic fabrics; carpets and natural flooring. Cleaning the home: natural cleaners; windows, walls and floors; the natural kitchen; the natural bathroom; furniture and ornaments; household pests. Washing and laundry: laundry know-how; natural stain removers; washing the natural way; drying and pressing. Recycling waste: reducing waste; what to recycle?; organic waste; hazardous household waste; reusing. Healthy food: a good diet; organic food; reading the label; what we drink; food suppliers; grow your own; preparing food; storing and cooking. Personal care: understanding labels; skin care; body care; hair care; hand and foot care; fragrances. Natural remedies: common ailments; the herbal medicine chest; healing through bodywork. Baby care: feeding young children; nappies and skin care; clothes, bedding and toys. Keeping pets: feeding your pet; pest control; pet health; pet hygiene. Working at home: designing a home office; creating a workstation; money matters.