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Clean Mama’s Guide to a Healthy Home: The Simple, Room-by-Room Plan for a Natural Home

Becky RapinchukMarch 5, 2019

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In Clean Mama’s Guide to a Healthy Home, Becky Rapinchuk, author of Simply Clean and creator of the popular cleaning website Clean Mama, provides a step-by-step guide to take charge of your home’s wellness with a comprehensive, all-natural cleaning system.

Scientific evidence points to a clear link between household chemicals and a number of diseases and chronic health issues. Drawing on this research, Rapinchuk’s program delivers an organized, beautiful, toxic-free, environmental-friendly household by providing readers with:

A room-by-room guide to cleaning and removing harmful toxins in one’s home
A Weekend Kick-Start Detox to ease readers into the program
Over 50 simple, organic DIY cleaning product recipes
Easy to digest research on common toxic products in the home, why they are dangerous to our health, and what to replace them with
Tips and tools from a trusted source to create cleaner, safer homes, resulting in healthier families

Cleanliness is about detoxing, embracing organic, all-natural methods and products, and protecting the environment. Moms look to Becky to guide them in the best cleaning practices for their home, and will welcome Clean Mama’s Guide to a Healthy Home, which shows that going natural isn’t just a better way to a cleaner home—it’s vital to the health of our bodies, our families, and our planet.

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About the author

BECKY RAPINCHUK is the founder of Clean Mama, the most popular cleaning website in with world. The Clean Mama empire spans several highly successful businesses, including a membership-only monthly subscription, an organic cleaning line, a paper goods company, and an online community. Rapinchuk is the homecare expert for Scotch-Brite and has also worked with a variety of brands as an ambassador or brand affiliate, including Dyson, Home Depot, SC Johnson, Martha Stewart, Bissell, Casabella, Murchison-Hume, The Laundress, Aprilaire, and Neato Robotics. Rapinchuk is an online columnist for Better Homes & Gardens, the housekeeping expert on Answers.com, and a regular home expert for Real Simple, the New York Times, Bon Appetit, Better Homes & Gardens, HGTV Magazine, InStyle, Shape, Oprah.com, Houzz, Refinery29, and others.

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HarperCollins

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Mar 5, 2019

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224

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9780062856333

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Flowing text, Original pages

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English

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Health & Fitness / Healthy Living

House & Home / Cleaning, Caretaking & Organizing

House & Home / Sustainable Living

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