Clean, Naturally: Recipes for Body, Home, and Spirit | 
| Author: Sandy Maine
Publisher: Interweave Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $35.00
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 658221
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 168
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 8.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1883010985
Dewey Decimal Number: 648.5
EAN: 9781883010980
ASIN: 1883010985
Publication Date: September 1, 2001
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Product Description
Like a breath of fresh air, this guide to home and personal care embraces the cleaning ritual as a necessary part of daily life and offers tips on how to make it remarkably stress-free and even enjoyable. By creating homemade cleaning products, soaps, and shampoos, harsh chemical cleaners, artificial scents, and allergy-inducing additives are simply replaced with pure, gentle, and wholesome products. In a world where environmental sensitivities are on the rise and time to complete basic tasks seems to slip away, the efficient recipes and methods in this book come as a welcome surprise. By eliminating unnecessary cleaning products from the home, under-the-counter clutter is greatly reduced, allergies and sensitivities are easily addressed, and favorite scents and textures become a part of the calming and fulfilling ritual of keeping things clean.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Great recipes,feel free to substitute June 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got a lot of good from this book.The disinfecting spray is lovely to use.I actually enjoy wiping down a counter with it. I see people have a lot of problems with the SLS.I say simply substitute.I use a squirt of dish soap or castile soap instead of SLS (which I didn't have) in the recipes and it works fine. I also love her attitude towards homecare,very inspiring. A lovely book with useful recipes.
 Great Book! March 15, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm so glad I didn't let the previous reviews keep me from purchasing this book. It is not intended to be a book on "soapmaking", but rather on natural homemade products for the home and body. With the utmost respect to previous reviewers, just reading the title "Clean, Naturally - Recipes for Body, Home, and Spirit" tells what the book is about. There is no indication that this would even be a "soapmaking" manual or why anything extrodinarly new would be in this book. Natural cleaning has few variations - that's why it's "natural".
This is a lovely book and Sandy Maine did an excellent job in putting it together. It is practical, has easy to follow directions, and no-nonsense overly wordy approach. I love it!
To each their own... May 30, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Ah, I see much criticism of this lovely book -- folks want something new and exciting. This book clearly isn't an information about soapmaking book -- it is actually a bit more and a bit less than that.
This book presents itself like a gift book -- remiscent of a table top gift book. Tucked into the pages are Maine's basic beliefs on the goodness of home recipes for soaps, shampoos. There are little bits on skin care and hair care. She provides her favorite recipes, using many of the same ingredients.
Although she refers to the training received in the first chapters, it is less training than a lovely presentation -- for a how to of soap making, I'd use a more informational book or information from a class (for soaps made with lye, thank you very much, pretty pictures are not enough!)
In addition to the interesting recipes (for Russian Dishwashing Disk, for example) there is a chapter on Toilet Bowl Cleaners, a Leather Care recipe, a chapter on Making Your own laundry supplies, another on Natural Pet Care and a section on her invention of the "soap tassels" line -- with a couple of recipes.
The idea, I think, is to take her basic vegetable based recipes (CRISCO OIL!!!) and be motivated to make up some of your own, using the logic behind the percentages she uses and the combination of fragrances, seeds, herbs and such.
An addition to the library -- still haven't found my basic must have can't do without soapmaking book!
 Average at Best April 28, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I had the same problem many had with this book. The soap recipes are just one recipe with simple changes in EOs and Fillers. Ho..Hummm. What filled 52 pages should have taken maybe 6.The balance of the book contains recipes for Bodycare and Natural Homekeeping. While the Bodycare recipes looked inviting, most of the Homekeeping recipes were not acceptable to me. I say that only because of the use of one ingredient...sodium lauryl sulfocacetate. After doing some research on this surfectant, I found that while it's deemed to be milder than either SLS or SLES (which I don't use in my home), it is still considered an irritant ("Synthetic detergent made from sulphur trioxide and fatty alcohols derived from coconut oils.") If this ingredient seems okay for you to use, the rest of the ingredients do appear to be completely natural. And although I don't think I'd have a use for "Beeswax Saddle Soap", I would for the "Herbal Sleep Pillow". I truly wish there was a completely naturaly substitute for the SLSulfoacetate...then this book would be more useful to me. As it is, it unfortunately goes in my library donation pile.
What? Is there nothing new in soap making? January 11, 2003
If you own Sandy Maine's books "The Soap Book" and "Soothing Soaps" do not waste your money on this one. Everything in the other two books is in this one "word for word". There are a few new receipes but not enough to make it worth your money to purchase this one if you already own the others. I was disappointed.
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