Five home remedies replace a drugstore

As an analogous reference book, this book offers recipes and application tips around the house cleaning. This does not require countless cleaning agents, but only five proven home remedies: baking soda, soda, vinegar, citric acid and curd soap. They can be used to make everything from dish cleaner to detergent to body care products. This protects the environment, saves packaging waste - and money to boot. But also possible applications in the garden, in the garage and in the kitchen are shown: peel carrots instead of peeling, eliminate odors, care for plants, gently clean flower pots or pavement joints, freshen up seat pads and car upholstery, sterilize canisters, make glue yourself ... the list is long - and surprising, because most of the time the ideas and recipes are quite simple.

Usually, there is a website in addition to a film, book, etc. Here it’s the other way round: The ideas portal smarticular.net was launched first and quickly became a digital reference address for eco-friends and the health-conscious, providing tips, ideas and recipes for sustainable living. Committed people who want to take things into their own hands, do them themselves and try them out to make their lives a little easier and greener visit the page. Now the team behind the portal has turned the online guide into several printed publications. The book series “Selber machen statt kaufen” (Do it yourself instead of buying), for example, reveals to its readers shopping alternatives and approaches to sustainable living. The smarticular team focuses on topics like home remedies, saving plastic, or avoiding waste in the manuals.