This is a beautiful looking book, with a clean layout and pure looking photos. It echoes the ‘clean’ message of the book and is a joy to read aesthetically.
The book itself contains advice and instruction for getting rid of toxins in each room of your house so you can follow along and feel really clean and healthy afterwards. There are case studies in each chapter telling us of real life cases who have been helped by detoxing their home and were very interesting reading. There were several nuggets of information that really got me thinking and I have already made a few changes in my life after reading this book.
However, this book is quite idealistic and I fear that you may go slightly mad after reading it, fearing all of the toxins that are waiting for you around the corner! It is hard to escape all of the toxins we encounter in every day life and whereas changing plastic chopping boards for bamboo is a pretty easy and inexpensive swap, buying a latex mattress because of all of the toxins in memory foam comes into a whole different cost bracket! I would say read the book and take from it what you can, but unless you are suffering an illness resulting from exposure to toxins, don’t stress about getting it all perfect. After all, millions of people are exposed to these toxins without knowing a thing about it and the majority are fine.
As a reader from the UK, I also noticed that the book was written from an American perspective so some of the items she suggests purchasing are not available here, but there are some fabulous blogs that I found after a quick search that give plenty of useful information.
With thanks to Netgalley and Storey Publishing for providing an advance review copy. All opinions are my own.
Verdict: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
