Raleigh Briggs

Great little book that is in a style that reminds me of old fashioned zines. Hand drawn - cute illustrations and handmade fonts. Oh and the book itself is an earthy green recipe book full of how to's and recipes. I tried the laundry soap and although I did not love it...the book is truly delightful!

"Raleigh Briggs is a cheerful and charming writer and I recommend picking up her heftier Make Your Place, which is a useful guide on crafting nontoxic variations of household cleaners and other ubiquitous dangers.

Soap was left out of Make Your Place because it’s inherently toxic – the main ingredient is almost always the caustic alkaline compound sodium hydroxide or lye (as I learned from the zine). The instructions here emphasize safety but I’d imagine this would appeal to only the show more most hardcore DIY folks who are also very much into personal hygiene (a thin sliver in that Venn diagram, to be sure)."
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A nifty book filled with DIY recipes for shampoos, household cleaners, various ailments, and also tips and tricks on gardening. I definitely want to try some of the recipes but the author doesn't mention how to find some of the flowers / roots she uses if one can't easily grow them or find them because one lives in a city...

A cute little book with natural recipes for cleaning, body care and health care, and gardening information. Rather a 70s hippie style throwback, but still useful. That said, if you are interested in this stuff, there is probably not going to be much new, and you can probably find all this information on the internet, but still worth a look, for inspiration if nothing else.