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The Hydrogen Peroxide Book: 220 Tested Household Uses for the Ordinary 3% Bottle — With the Dilution, the Dwell Time and the Warning for Every One, and an Honest List of What It Does Not Do - Softcover

HARKER, BAYDEN

 
9798177827544: The Hydrogen Peroxide Book: 220 Tested Household Uses for the Ordinary 3% Bottle — With the Dilution, the Dwell Time and the Warning for Every One, and an Honest List of What It Does Not Do

Synopsis

There is no bottle in your house that does more for less than this one. There is also no bottle that more books lie about.

Most guides to hydrogen peroxide are a list of two hundred tips with no strengths, no timings and no warnings. The rest tell you to drink it. This is neither.

220 USES, ROOM BY ROOM AND JOB BY JOB

Every single one carries three things the tip lists leave out: how strong to make it, how long to leave it there, and — on more than half of them — exactly what it will ruin if you are careless.

The Kitchen. The Bathroom. Laundry and Fabrics. Floors, Walls and the Rest of the House. Outdoors, the Garden and the Car. Tools, Workshop and Restoration. And a final chapter for the objects that belong to no room and get cleaned by nobody.

ONE BOTTLE. ONE STRENGTH.

Everything in this book uses the ordinary 3% bottle that costs about a pound and sits in every supermarket. Nothing here needs 6%, 12% or the 35% sold as "food grade" — and Chapter Five explains, in the FDA's own words, why you should not have that bottle in the house at all.

SEVENTEEN CHAPTERS BEFORE THE FIRST USE

What "disinfect" actually means, and why a supermarket bottle does not meet it. What never to mix it with, and why peroxide and vinegar is the most dangerous thing social media recommends. Why it is no longer used on cuts. Why dwell time is the whole game, and four ways to make liquid stay on a vertical surface. How to test before you treat. How to dilute without arithmetic. Why light kills it, and how to tell whether your bottle is still working.

AND AN HONEST LIST OF WHAT IT DOES NOT DO

It does not aerate soil. It does not cure root rot. It is not a general fungicide and it does not repel insects. It does not dissolve limescale, and it makes rust worse rather than better. Nine popular claims, each with what is actually true — because a book you can trust on that page is a book you can trust on the other two hundred.

EVERY CLAIM SOURCED

The National Capital Poison Center. The US Food and Drug Administration. The CDC's disinfection guideline. University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension. Each one named on the page where it is used, with the full list in the back.

Four quick-reference charts, an emergency page, the twenty uses worth doing first, and an index of all 220.

This book is about cleaning. Nothing in it is medical advice, and nothing in it is ever swallowed.

220 uses. One bottle. Scroll up and start with the twenty on page 117.

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