Written by Deborah Dolen, Maid Holistic: The Art of Cleaning Naturally was inspired by a growing demand for more natural cleaning methods by consumers to their cleaning personnel. Cleaning personnel also embrace the idea of cleaning naturally because they are exposed to far more chemicals on a daily basis than the average person. Burt's Bees established a decade ago that what goes onto our skin ends up in our blood stream. This fact does not even take into consideration what goes into our water, only to be recycled in many cities and sent right back to our faucets. Author Deborah Dolen has also written extensively about water. Maid Holistic offers a complete set of natural cleaning methods and easy to make blends as well as cleaning formulas of your own, to help save you money and have a higher quality product for cleaning. Formulas are laid out in the U.S. as well as metric system of weights and measurements.Author Deborah Dolen points out many people want to go green, but not many know what that means or how to do it. Primarily it means abstaining from all toxic chemical detergents such as SLS and replacing those values with natural cleaners such as Bon Ami, and a natural liquid castile soap. Not only does such practices operate to keep your environment green, but it is also very friendly on the environment. The amounts of sulfates and chemicals that enter our water systems do so through laundry, sinks, and even watering a lawn. (40 Pages print format.) Registered National Library of Canada, Ottawa, ISBN 1-894872-13-4.