Home and Happiness Botanical Handbook - Plant-Based Recipes for a Clean and Healthy Home

Infuse your home with herbal happiness using this book of ethical, empowering, and eco-friendly botanical recipes. 

Whether you live in a small apartment, in a boat or a van, or in a spacious family abode, a home is a sanctuary that provides us with the space to unwind, recuperate, and look after ourselves. This inspiring vegan and cruelty-free guide teaches you how you can nurture and take pride in your home and self-care routine by creating your own, botanical products, all while protecting the earth.
Recipes include eco-friendly laundry and home cleaning products, charms to cleanse the home of bad energy, and miscellaneous oddities such as boot cleaner, harm-free herbal mouse deterrent, and eco sudsy car soap.
By sourcing and mixing your own heavenly, herby lotions and potions, you enable yourself to become more present in everyday tasks, to put more love into what you are doing, and to make the process of looking after your home less onerous, and more mindful. So boost your mood, love our planet, and take pride in nourishing your home and soul with this beautiful book of botanical bounties.

List of contents

Chapter One The Plant Revolution Chapter Two Sourcing Herbs Chapter Three Kitchen Set-up
How to Use This Book Successfully Chapter Four The Recipes
Household Products
Room Sprays
Potpourri
Eco Laundry Products
Garden & House Plant Care
On The Road
Pets’ Corner
Inks, Paints & Dyes
Various Oddities Chapter Five Herb Directory Contributors
Sources & Further Reading
Index
Acknowledgements
 

About the author

Pip Waller is a medical herbalist and plant spirit practitioner. She has taught at the Academy of Natural Health in London and was a clinical supervisor for the UK-based National Institute of Medical Herbalists Training Clinic. She lives in North Wales.

Summary

With advice on how to source and grow herbs, a herb directory, and essential everyday recipes for a happy, healthy, and harm-free home, The Home and Happiness Botanical Handbook is the perfect companion for any eco-conscious home-lover.

Product details

• Authors: Pip Waller, Waller Pip
• Publisher: Ivy Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780711256712
• ISBN: 978-0-7112-5671-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Practical guides; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; Sustainability, SELF-HELP / Green Lifestyle, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Mindfulness & Meditation, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Happiness, HOUSE & HOME / Sustainable Living, HOUSE & HOME / Cleaning, Caretaking & Organizing, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Alchemy, Green lifestyle & self-sufficiency, Botany & plant sciences, Household hints, Household management and home hints, Self-sufficiency and ‘green’ lifestyle, Traditional medicine and herbal remedies, Traditional medicine & herbal remedies, Botany and plant sciences, CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Soap Making