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| Green This! Volume 1: Greening Your Cleaning (Green This!) | 
 enlarge | Author: Deirdre Imus
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 77613
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1416540555
Dewey Decimal Number: 648.5
EAN: 9781416540557
ASIN: 1416540555
Publication Date: April 10, 2007
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Product Description
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 Your Cleaning, the first in her Green This! series, Deirdre shows how cleaning house the environmentally responsible way can be as effective and often cheaper than the more traditional, toxic, means. This volume includes: - Simple, efficient cleaning methods for every room of the house
- Spotlights on everyday products (all purpose cleaner, glass/window cleaner, laundry detergent) and the toxic ingredients you should be wary of
- Summaries of the latest research on the toxic effects of ordinary chemicals
- Resource lists of widely available "green cleaning" products and retailers
Filled with tips and testimonials, Greening Your Cleaning will show you how to streamline your cleaning products and practices, and how easy it is to make "living green" your way of life.
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 Greening the Cleaning... April 11, 2007
87 out of 122 found this review helpful
Deirdre Imus has done so much to help the environment by providing products for a cleaner, greener earth and this book is excellent! I admire her for giving 100 percent of the proceeds to the ranch to benefit kids with cancer. I hope that Volume 2 will come out in the future. The price of the book is very reasonable. And it's easy to read and to refer to...
I have used several suggestions in the book and the Greening the Cleaning cleaner to get red koolaid off my cabinet and it worked so well. She gives lists of helpful websites to go to for additional information.
Keep your head up, Deirdre, and continue what you're doing to help make things better for children and for the environment. You have my respect and admiration as always.
MY ALLERGIES THANK YOU April 10, 2007
67 out of 95 found this review helpful
As a woman with mid-life onset allergies to a host of things, including harsh cleaning products, I am delighted with this book. And I'm concerned not just for myself but for the harm that chemicals are doing to mother earth as well so I really appreciated the research and information the book provides. I'm going to recommend it to my clients and friends who have the same personal and global concerns. Pamela D. Blair, Author The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women at Mid-Life And Beyond
 Not the whole story... September 5, 2007
56 out of 60 found this review helpful
I'm a huge fan of cleaning with more natural products, and use baking soda, vinegar, lemon juice, etc to do so. In that way, I totally agree with the author's message. However, I don't agree with the presentation of the book. An example is the section on fabric softeners and dryer sheets. The author warns that these commercial products may contain limonene and linalool...as suggested alternatives, she mentions essential oils, such as lemon, lavender, bergamot, and rosewood. Throughout the book, she states that these chemicals, limonene and linalool, are scary and toxic...and then suggests essential oils which themselves have these chemicals in their makeup. (The recommendation of rosewood is another issue altogether as the author recommends it (several places) despite environmentalists' growing concerns for its endangered status and for the protection of the rain forests. Not a very "green" thing to do, IMO.) Her own commercial line of cleaning products contain essential oils as well, and I'm betting limonene and linalool can be found in them as a result.
There are dangerous products on the market, no doubt about that. And we as a society are guilty of "over kill" when it comes to "germs". And natural alternatives versus "man-made" chemicals are likely safer and better. I don't disagree with any part of that message.
Again, I am a fan of essential oils, however one must also understand that anything can be dangerous if applied incorrectly or without due care. I felt that many of the suggestions were overboard and failed to include proper warnings. For example, there are some essential oils that shouldn't be used around pets. Most, if not all, shouldn't be used around cats due to a cat's special physiology and the cumulative toxic effect the oils can have on a cat's liver. I didn't see this mentioned anywhere.
The author talks about the dangers of artificial fragrances, but doesn't acknowledge that many of the "dangers" can and do apply to essential oils as well. She constantly mentions "dousing" and "saturating" items with essential oils...which I makes me wonder if she has really ever been around them. Essential oils are powerful and I can't imagine ever having to "douse" anything with them. Generally, a few drops will do. I could go on and on, unfortunately. In the end, I was left feeling that the "homework" the book was based on had been incomplete and that it failed to tell the whole story. A shame as I said I do agree with the author's basic message. But regardless of where the profits go, I have to be honest with my review. I hope that it will be appreciated.
The Real Deal April 13, 2007
50 out of 85 found this review helpful
So this is what the Imus family is all about. We should hang our heads in shame America. These are good people. They deserve more. I bought five copies of the book just to support their cause. A ranch in the country for kids with cancer. Wow, these people are great. Don Imus only mirrored what is being said in this country by many other people. People turned on him. The book tour was stopped. This is a good family. These are ideas and products which could turn around the pollution of water. Water is going to become expensive and sold some day like oil. With the price of water flashing across the evening news that is what we have to look forward to. Buy the book save the water table, save the planet and support this family.
moe armstrong
Green This! Volume 1: Greening Your Cleaning April 13, 2007
48 out of 90 found this review helpful
Don and Deidre Imus are wonderful, caring human beings. Please support anything they do. Unlike lots of rich people, they share their money, talent and time with kids, the environment and the soldiers and their families. Support their causes and them, what's happened is very unfair, we all make stupid mistakes. Don Imus is not a racist.
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