Like many of you I stumbled across the benfits of cleaning with bicarb a few month ago and have been enjoying the simplicity of cleaning not to mention the finacial savings over the bottles and boxes of chemicals I used to spend money on. But yesterday I was overjoyed to find this beautiful book in a regular bookstore - yep not a hippy, tree hugging store but boring old QBD.
The book is aptly named "Bicarbonate of Soda - Expert Advice" written by Diane Sutherland, Jon Sutherland, Liz Keevil and Kevin Eyres and is filled with 189 pages of practical uses for this inexpensive powerful powder. The Introduction to the book says
"If you could find a naturally occuring product that you could use as a deodorant, a toothpaste, an exfoliant and an antiseptic, you'd be impressed. If you found out that you could use the same substance in the kitchen to make a big improvement to many of your favourite dishes and then use it to clean out your pots and pans, leaving them greese free and shining you'd be amazed. And if you were told that exactly the same product could be used to shampoo your pets, clean out your swimming pool, kill cockroaches and relieve insect bites and stings, you'd probably just laugh. Well there us just such a product, it's been around for thousands of years in one form or another and you can buy it today for pennies."It's such a great little reference guide that is stretching my already high regard for bicarb to unheard of levels - even my mother agrees, which is saying something; the tell tale roll of the eyes when I suggested that I only wash my nappies in bicarb has been replaced with a suggestion she might just get herself some bicarb when she gets home.
The thing I love most about using bicarb, apart from the significant money saving is how comfortable I am with using it in the house. Probably one of the scariest things I realised when I started learning about chemicals in the home is the residues and fumes that we expose ourselves to daily in our domestic goddess duties. If you have a child like my Miss A who loves to help mum then you will understand my concern! Now I feel much more at peace with letting her help with the washing and cleaning knowing that the only thing touching her skin and going in her mouth (as she inevitably will put her fingers in her mouth or eyes) is water and bicarb: nothing worse then what she would get if we were baking a cake.
If you would like to read more about chemicals in the home - you can have a quick look here
And I would love to hear about your bicarb stories and recipes here or on our forum
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