The Slightly Greener Method: Detoxifying Your Home Is Easier, Faster, and Less Expensive than You Think

by Tonya Harris MSHN BCHN

From the foods you consume to the household and personal care products you buy, being just slightly greener can have a big impact on your health and happiness!

Are you searching for a simple yet powerful way to create a healthier, toxin-free living space for you and your loved ones? Award-winning environmental expert Tonya Harris presents an approach to detoxifying your home that is easier, faster, and more budget-friendly than you ever imagined.

In this must-have guide, Harris reveals her highly effective and slightly greener method for detoxifying your home. The Slightly Greener Method provides actionable steps, insightful tips, and valuable resources that will transform your home into a haven of wellness,

Detoxify Your Home, Enhance Your Learn how to eliminate harmful chemicals from your household products, ensuring a safer environment for your family and having a positive impact on our planet.Effortless and Fast Effortlessly integrate toxin-free alternatives into your daily life no matter how busy your schedule is.Budget-Friendly Green Find an array of practical and budget-conscious solutions that make detoxifying your home accessible to everyone.Embrace Eco-Friendly Embrace eco-friendly practices that promote a cleaner, healthier planet for future generations and become a part of a global movement toward a sustainable and harmonious world.Take the first step toward a healthier, toxin-free lifestyle and unlock the secrets to creating a greener, cleaner, and more vibrant home for you and your loved ones.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction

338 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 3, 2021

Reviews

[Abby · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’d love for Emily Oster to take a crack at this book. Tonya Harris cites a lot of studies, but there is no assessment of how accurate, valid, repeatable, and sound these studies were. There are so many vague claims in here. You can find a study to say almost anything, so I read this with a huge amount of skepticism. Still, there is some valid advice, and the chapter on food seemed the most applicable and evidence-based.

[Avatar Simpson · Rating 3 out of 5]

This whole book can be replaced by the summary in the appendix

[Ken Saunders · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very well-organized and easy to understand. I appreciated the author's consistently practical approach to presenting information without scare tactics - and without ever trying to sell the reader anything. The first step the author advises is to think about what concerns made you interested in this book. Then she makes it easy to identify which aspects of the book pertain to those concerns. This book even includes information about free apps you can use to scan labels in the grocery store to check for ingredients specific to your area of concern.

For example, I am concerned about endocrine disruptors. After reading the book I decided my first steps I learned about will be to stop wearing outside shoes inside the house, and making it a weekly habit to vacuum & dust the den and bedroom. Later, as my plastic meal prep containers wear out, I will replace them with safer alternatives the author recommends so I can limit plastic exposure. When I first read the book's advice to avoid plastic food containers, I over-reacted and almost stopped reading. I am glad I talked it over with a friend and decided to accept the advice in the spirit in which it is offered - simply as a helpful suggestion I can use to make decisions.

I was initially skeptical about some of the advice here to be careful about personal care products like lotion or deodorant. Then I read the section where the author pointed out that skin allows substances to bypass the digestive system's defenses and enter the bloodstream directly through the skin. Here I especially appreciated the author's practical approach and avoidance of off-putting scare tactics.

[Isabel Hinen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a helpful guide for eliminating chemicals and harmful things from your home! I love how it was written- very factual and informative, without using unnecessary scare tactics. Instead of preaching an all-or-nothing viewpoint, Tonya Harris gives us all the facts and reminds us that it's up to us to decide how far we want to go in creating a safer environment for us and our children. You don't have to throw out every single piece of plastic in our home or rid our fridge of anything without an "organic" label. Going "slightly greener" means gradually making changes as you are ready and able, and choosing what works best for YOUR family- if that means making your own deodorant and keeping a bag of doritos in your pantry at all times, go for it! The task of looking at ingredients labels on nearly everything may seem daunting, but you can quickly memorize which ingredients to avoid and it becomes second nature! I've already made quite a few switches in my home and even have my husband on board with the Slightly Greener Method! I encourage you to just give it a try, read it and decide for yourself. You'll be surprised what you can learn from it!

[Kara Marie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Going "slightly greener" means you should make changes when ready and able to. I like that there was no pressure, but more a helpful guide for eliminating chemicals and harmful things from your home - it was factual and informative, without being too doom and gloomy. I liked the attitude that now that you know better, do better (but don't stress if you can't do it all!). I found the listing at the end of the book the most helpful. She lists helpful apps, food companies to check out, and products to try.
I have read a bunch of books on this topic, but I found this one the least daunting.