Home Safe Home: Protecting Yourself and Your Family from Everyday Toxics and Harmful Household Products

by Debra Lynn Dadd

Home Safe Home is the ultimate reference of its kind, written by the leading authority on eliminating toxics in the home. It offers more than four hundred tips, including do-it-yourself formulas for inexpensive, safe products to replace the harmful substances we are exposed to in our own households. If you suffer from unexplained headaches, fatigue, or depression, or if you worry about the link between increased use of toxic chemicals and the rising rate of cancer, the many suggestions in this book can make your life virtually toxic-free!  
Here are some of the many useful facts you'll
 
- You can make a window cleaner from vinegar and water that is safe, more effective, and less expensive than any product on the market.
- A mineral powder, which costs pennies per use, is the safest way to get whites their whitest.
- Simply changing your type of sheets and pillows may cure insomnia.

Genres: Health, Reference, Nonfiction

464 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Debra Lynn Dadd brings over twenty years of research and real-life experience to her work as a consumer advocate for health and the environment.

With her books A Consumer Guide for the Chemically-Sensitve (self-published 1982), Nontoxic & Natural (Tarcher, 1984) and The Nontoxic Home (Tarcher 1986), Debra was the first to alert consumers to the toxic chemicals present in everyday household products and reveal both the short- and long-term health effects, as well as safe alternatives. She was the first to catalog nontoxic products, making them easily accessible to everyone.

Debra was also ahead of her time with her concern about the environmental effects of consumer products. She began writing on the subject in 1989 and was ready with her book Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise when consumer interest exploded after Earth Day 1990. This was followed by The Nontoxic Home & Office (Tarcher/Putnam 1992), her guide to choosing green products Sustaining The Earth (William Morrow 1994) and Home Safe Home (Tarcher/Putnam 1997).

Today she is still the leader in her field with a new revised edition of Home Safe Home and Debra's List, her on-line directory of 100s of links to 1000s of nontoxic, natural, and earthwise products.

from http://www.dld123.com/aboutdebra.html

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is only so much you can protect your family from before becoming a complete shut-in. This book is a really informative (and frightening) overview of what's in everything from dog food to baby toys.

[Ellen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great basic overview of what is toxic in home environment and what the alternatives are. Debra Lynn Dadd's searchable blog is even more useful. This is a great place to start for anyone who wants to have better health. It is a must for anyone who is sensitive or allergic to more than a few things, also anyone who will have children, or who has difficult children, or anyone who is suspecting environmental illness.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

A through look at dangerous chemicals commonly found in homes and good, safe alternatives. Covers everything: cleaning products, personal care products, consumer goods, building materials, house plants. If you've ever wondered about those ingredients in your shampoo with names you can't pronounce, this is the book for you.

[Nadia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book became the catalyst for a complete main floor renovation to our family home. From infancy I've lived with eczema, asthma, and extreme allergies (particularly to environmental toxins). The recommendations in this book ,along with Dr Sherry Rogers Detoxify or Die, were key in helping me live 95% symptom free most of the year.

[Margaret · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very enllightening as to how to keep your family saver in our polluted world.

[Alicia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good introduction to the whole topic of what is really in the products we use everyday. I think I read a more updated version, but I can't find it here.

[Sally]

living with / recovering from multiple chemical sensitivity