Margaret Briggs Book order

A simple and accessible guide to choosing and using all-natural beauty products, with recipes for making your own.

Explores an essential ingredient and how to use it for health and the household as well as in cooking; a brief history of salt and its importance in customs and rituals, before presenting hundreds of fascinating natural applications in the home.

An incredibly versatile substance, bicarbonate of soda - also known as baking soda - has an enormous variety of practical uses; this book explores its applications as a cheap, natural cleaning product around the home, for medicinal purposes and in the kitchen with recipes from perfect muffins to fizzing lemonades.

Offers traditional wisdom, hints and tips for using natural ingredients in the home. This title is filled with hundreds of timeless household hints and tips for using bicarbonate of soda, vinegar, salt, lemon and honey. It is brimming with traditional household uses, such as cleaning kettles, removing ink from the carpet, and making a hair rinse.

Did you know that bicarbonate of soda is a valuable commodity in the world of glass and soap manufacture? That Ancient Egyptians used it to make their mummies smell better and stay fresher for longer? This book sets out to pull together a number of facts about bicarbonate of soda and gives helpful suggestions as to its uses around the home.

Everything you need to know about honey, how it is made and the history of its uses, plus a section dedicated to culinary recipes, health and beauty.