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This is a neat little book advising how to create your own cleaning products, health care solutions, and garden. Sometimes I like to think that when we are in our own place I will do these kinds of things, but reading this book made me doubt whether or not I'm really committed.

Before you can start making your own all-purpose cleaner, and face wash, and laundry soap, and toothpaste, and headache tinctures,(etc.) you do have to invest in a number of items (herbs, essential oils, borax...not to mention glass jars and cooking and mixing equipment solely devoted to these creations) that are not necessarily easy to find. Something makes me think that might be especially true in a small town.

So, I'm probably not going to make my own toothpaste. But here are the kind of things I am more likely to try...