The Healthy Household: A Complete Guide for Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment

Discusses health hazards in the home; explains how furniture, appliances, and household products can be sources of air pollution; and offers advice on locating less-toxic cleaning and personal care items

Is your home making you sick? If it's like most modern homes, yours is probably filled with formaldehyde-laden cabinets; carpeting, bedding, and clothing made of chemically treated, synthetic fibers; and synthetically derived cosmetics, cleaning products, pesticides, and paints--all of which can release potentially dangerous chemical compounds into the air. Some of these chemicals are irritants, others are toxic to the central nervous system, some can even cause mutations or cancer. Unfortunately, your home really can make you sick.

That's why you need The Healthy Household. This single source will help you locate less-toxic cleaning products and personal-care items, as well as untreated natural-fiber clothing and linens. it provides clear explanations of healthier ways to furnish and decorate your home, eliminate pests, even store your belongings. The Healthy Household also covers air and water filters, and simple methods of reducing your risks from electromagnetic fields. The Healthy Household contains all the answers you need to make informed decisions about creating and maintaining a healthy indoor environment for you and your family.

Lynn Marie Bower has a BS in education (magna cum laude) from Western Michigan University. She has been a public school teacher, and an accomplished graphic designer and fine artist. She became personally interested in the subject of healthier houses when she acquired Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) nearly two decades ago during a home remodeling project. Since that time she has written scores of articles on creating and maintaining a healthier lifestyle, and has co-edited a statewide MCS support-group newsletter. She is the coauthor of The Healthy House Answer Book, a popular question-and-answer guide to healthy building and lifestyle.