Simply Living Well: A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home
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Recipes, DIY projects, and inspiration for a beautiful and low-waste life, from the creator of @simply.living.well on Instagram
In this timely and motivational guide, author Julia Watkins shares rituals, recipes, and projects for living simply and sustainably at home. For every area of your household—kitchen, cleaning, wellness, bath, and garden—Julia shows you how to eliminate wasteful packaging, harmful ingredients, and disposable items. Practical checklists outline easy swaps (instead of disposable sponges, opt for biodegradable sponges or Swedish dishcloths; choose a bamboo toothbrush over a plastic one) and sustainable upgrades for common household tools and products. Projects include scrap apple cider vinegar, wool dryer balls, kitchen bowl covers and cloth produce bags, non-toxic dryer sheets, all-purpose citrus cleaner, herbal tinctures and balms, and more, plus recipes for package-free essentials like homemade nut milk, hummus, ketchup, salad dressings, and veggie stock.
Publisher : Harvest
Publication date : April 7, 2020
Edition : Illustrated
Language : English
Print length : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 0358202183
ISBN-13 : 978-0358202189
Item Weight : 1.98 pounds
Dimensions : 7 x 1.31 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #188,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #31 in Green Housecleaning #164 in Vegetable Gardening #256 in Home Cleaning, Caretaking & Relocating
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Customers find this book informative and inspiring, with helpful tips and great recipes for healthy home products. Moreover, the book is beautifully illustrated with lots of photos, and customers appreciate its simple, easy-to-read style. Additionally, they like the cleaning recipes and consider it worth the price.
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STaylor14 –
Life-Changing & Full of Practical Ideas!
Simply Living Well: A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home has completely transformed my outlook on sustainable living! This book is packed with so many great ideas that are not only practical but also easy to incorporate into everyday life.The author does an incredible job of breaking down the concept of living simply and intentionally, with a focus on reducing waste and embracing natural, eco-friendly alternatives. From tips on homemade cleaning supplies to zero-waste kitchen practices, Iâve learned so much about how small changes can make a big impact on the environmentâand my own life.I especially love the DIY recipes and the simple yet effective solutions for a more sustainable home. The layout is clear, well-organized, and visually appealing, which makes it a joy to read and refer back to.If youâre looking to live more consciously and sustainably, this book is an absolute must-read! Itâs truly inspired me to live more mindfully and make better choices for both my home and the planet. Highly recommend!
Matt –
Excellent, Fabulous, Terrific Book
If you want great ideas and enjoy natural home remedies, healthy recipes, natural cleaning supplies, along with skin care and dentals care and more, then you have to RUSH out and purchase this book. I guarantee youâre going to love it. I first borrowed this book from the library, I was amazed with the information and how easy it would be to make all of these natural medicines and health products for just a small amount of money. The book has many pages full of information. No way I could copy all of it, so i decide to purchase it. Iâm extremely happy i did. Itâs a great addition to my book shelf.
michelle fellegy –
Fantastic Book!
I absolutely love this book! It’s filled with wonderful wisdom & ideas to use in my home. It has sections on kitchen, cleaning, wellness, bath & body, and garden ideas. It’s recipes and projects are well written with nice pictures. I like the low waste ideas to create a healthy home & life!
Karla Stone –
Thoughtful and Inspiring ideas for a more healthful and eco-minded lifestyle
I love this book because it provides practical and easy to understand ways to improve our personal health and habits, while helping the planet at the same time. The clear and common sense narration helps the reader learn new ways to replace the everyday, taken-for granted habits we all have and the products we all use. Her suggestions are in many ways reminiscent of the simpler times of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, before the age of mass-production, processed foods, and engineered chemical products. The beautiful photographs, well-organized chapters, easy-to-follow ideas, and thoughtful encourgaement make this book both clarifying and gratifying to readers who want to start to improve the quality of their lives and the future of the environment. Each of us can begin to make a difference.
Katie Rogers –
Absolutely in love!
This may just end up being my new go to gift for everyone I know and love. It’s so inspiring! Although I’m not new to zero waste books or the concept of simple living, I found this read to be a lovely refresher and motivator. I can finally stop pinning, googling and instagram saving all of the random tid bits of information I find and instead use this as my new reference book. Many of the solutions, recipes and projects are new to me and I’m very excited to try them out! If the stunning photographs don’t motivate you to consume less plastic and opt instead for a healthier, cleaner more satisfying lifestyle, than I honestly don’t think anything ever will! So much goodness in these pages.
Laurie –
Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful
This book is very nicely done!! Such a beautiful book, filled with wonderful diy recipes and suggestions. Well worth the purchase!!
Izzy –
More than just basic sustainability! Must have for earth lovers.
I love that this book gives real examples of use and also stresses the need to slowly use the non sustainable things in your life before adding these recommended changes. Otherwise the first step to being earth friendly already would be off on the wrong foot! It does go over the basics but then says hey try these things instead and see where your mind takes you. It makes your home and outside life start to connect in so many ways. I didnât feel shame for still wanting or needing something that was in non earth friendly packages as it is at times unavoidable. Rather, it says cherish those items and use them more sparingly. Act as if it was a scarce luxury and not really an easily accessible product. Be realistic it shouldnât be a chore or youâre not doing it right. Such a great attitude to give in a book.
Laura –
Canât recommend this enough
This book is amazing! I started making my own cleaners and looking for ways to be more eco friendly. This book offers easy solutions to being less wasteful. So far every thing I have tried was worked so well. This offers a variety of cleaning products and recipes as well.
Trinny –
Brilliant read. Simple recipes for every day use. Most ingredients in the pantry or laundry. Love it.
Amazon Customer –
Back to basic… Vuelta a la sencillez y autenticidad. 100% recomendable….
Idalà M. –
Ya he comprado varios libros dude tanto con este por el previo pensé lo están rematando porque están malo pero no solo es precioso si no que es el que ha llegado en perfecto estado algunos han tenido un poco doblada una esquinita algo mÃnimo no esperaba nada de este y ahora lo amo sus pags no son de la mejor calidad pero las pastas si, y la portada es bellÃsima lo recomiendo tanto.
martina –
Die englische Version des Buches ist schöner als die deutsche.
Mary –
Mi piace tantissimo l’approccio alla vita naturale dell’autrice, ho anche un altro suo libro, dà tanti consigli validi ed interessanti per una vita più sostenibile, ricco di progetti corredati da belle fotografie, attingerò spesso da questo libro, peccato che non sia tradotto in italiano per una consultazione più immediata