The Wellness Mama 5-Step Lifestyle Detox: The Essential DIY Guide to a Healthier, Cleaner, All-Natural Life

by Katie Wells

Katie Wells, author of The Wellness Mama Cookbook and founder of wellnessmama.com, finally shares the secret of how she manages six kids, a company, and a career without sacrificing a healthy lifestyle with this step-by-step, comprehensive guide to clean, natural living.

By following her simple detox plan, you'll be able to implement a system for better living by reducing toxic exposure, transforming your diet, and regaining control over your health. Katie provides practical tips for slowly incorporating this rewarding lifestyle into an already busy schedule, giving you the option to choose what area of life you'd like to work on first. You can detox your body with whole foods and natural medicines; clean up your beauty regime with all-natural moisturizers, cleansers, hair products, and makeup; get rid of toxic household products that include bleach, ammonia, and acids; try a digital detox for you and your family; or learn how to de-stress by adopting healthier sleeping habits and finding time for yourself.
The Wellness Mama 5-Step Lifestyle Detox is the natural answer to matters of home, nutrition, and motherhood with over 150 homemade versions of essential household and personal products like:
-Citrus Fresh All-Purpose Cleaner
-Unscented Liquid Laundry Detergent
-Lavender and Honey Face Wash
- Mineral Foundation
-Lemon Cinnamon Cough Syrup
-Chamomile Calming Balm

Genres: Nonfiction

256 pages, Hardcover

Published December 11, 2018

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Katie Wells is an award-winning blogger, author, podcaster, and real-food crusader. Her mission with her popular website, wellnessmama.com, is to provide simple answers for maintaining healthier families through practical tips, real-food recipes, beauty and cleaning tutorials, natural remedies, and more. Katie was recently named by greatist.com as one of the one hundred most influential people in health and wellness. She can be found on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, and Pinterest.

Reviews

[❀ Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

some great ideas to make your lifestyle and home more environmentally friendly and natural. there are many great recipes at the back.

what will you try? I have tried a natural deodorant and want to try and make some hand soap and cleaner next

[Nise' · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have been ditching toxic chemicals for about 4 years and using essential oils for health and wellness. There was no new to me information in this book, but did enjoy looking at the recipes. I started out making my own products, but decided that was too much work and went with a company that has been around for 25 years with the best essential oils and toxic free products.

[Shayne · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful book filled with lots of recipes. I felt that there was just too much in this one book. It felt like she could have made 5 books out of this one. It felt like too much too fast. I would recommend taking your time with this book and just focus on one chapter at a time. Maybe take a whole month to just read and implement

[Deborah Martinez · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is a lot of information in this book, but I really enjoyed it. I'm slowly making the change to switch over to more natural cleaning products in my house, so appreciated the recipes for those.

I've already switched to a makeup that doesn't use 1500 ingredients most beauty companies use. I've never thought about trying to make my own beauty products, but may give it some thought. I already tried the vinegar bath the book recommended, so we will see!

If you are looking for ideas on how to incorporate a more natural lifestyle into your life, this book is for you.

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

No new information for someone familiar with a more natural lifestyle. It gave a good overview but was somewhat lacking in depth.

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a topic I enjoy to learn about and have been reading about for a few years, so some of the information (especially her cleaning chapter/recipes) was "old news" for me. I enjoyed "chapter 4: Take the Stress Out of Meal Planning". I thought she had some good tips to have weekly template and to figure out what my core recipes are. I personally found "Chapter 13: Clean Up Your Water Supply", a bit discouraging since we don't have a home water filter system. About a 1/3 of the book is recipes. I'm looking forward to trying elderberry syrup, lemon-cinnamon cough syrup, herbal throat spray, spicy cider immune boost, immune boosting elderberry tea and also foaming hand soap.

[Jennifer Gray · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ive been a follower of Katie on her websites, Pinterest , and podcasts. have been using chemical free cleaners, body products and foods for many many years. I love that this book had some new Information along with some refreshers on things I may have forgotten about. Very well written, and easy to follow format. I found a copy on amazon and just purchased it to reference back to. Great one for my personal reference collection to use once I finish yoga teacher training..

Thanks Wellness Mama!

[Marilyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wellness Mama 5-Step Lifestyle Detox is a handy DIY Guide filled with recipes and the science behind why certain ingredients work best for each situation.
Bonus Reference section includes chapter-by-chapter source notes and links to further explore individual topics.
What started as a Kindle read from the library ended with a purchase of the hardcover version to place on a shelf in my laundry room, from whence the recipes are created.

[Bess]

Not to my taste - too much chirpy doomsaying. Change absolutely everything in your life and you may save your family from the horrors of modern life. There’s grains of good advice there but as much noise to signal as you’d find on any random blog about similar topics.

There were a few interesting science articles on the reference list, which surprised me because their contents were mentioned with an airy hand wave of “studies have shown”.

[LibrErin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some great info and recipes but sooo much information. Too much for a browse-able afternoon. I think condensing the topics covered or splitting it into a few shorter books may have been easier to take in.

[Amy Bell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good ideas and natural recipes, just not sure that it's all practical.

[Katie Petriw · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good information. I don't believe the every day person can use everything in this book but it has good steps to live a more natural life.

[Rob N · Rating 5 out of 5]

Was listening to this on audio and had to purchase a copy for myself. She has great recipes and gives good reasons for her natural perspective

[Ann Mireles · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great tips and advice for those seeking to go the all natural living route. From how to make natural hydrating makeup to safe cleaning home alternatives.

[Mandy Crumb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good ideas. Lots of information. Many recipes.

[EmilyAnn Duffley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting tips on how to feed a baby with natural, unprocessed foods.

[Grace M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I consult the book often. Some of the recipes, especially anything involving emulsion, are sorely lacking details, so be prepared to experiment.