Tips and recipes for using herbs in your home - pages of useful suggestions and information:
Place a few cardamom leaves in blanket chests and drawers. They will give your woolens a lovely spicy scent. The seeds can be included in potpourris and sachets.
Lavender- or mint-filled tubes sewn out of cotton material may be stuffed inside shoes as a deodorizer....
....Moths are kept at bay with a few sachets of dried herbs such as southernwood, wormwood, and tansy as well as costmary, lavender, lemon verbena, pennyroyal, rosemary, rue, sage, santolina, sweet marjoram, sweet woodruff, various thymes and the mints. Crushed spices, orange or lemon peel, and cedar shavings may also be added.
Basil repels flies and mosquitoes around decks, patios, and doorways, especially O. gratissimum and O. tenuiflorum.
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Copyright 2004
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CONTENTS
Cleaning Mixtures - General Rules
Herbal Tips for Cleaning Products - General Rules
Herbal Terms
Drying Herbs
Antiseptic Herbs
Ingredients, Terms, & Uses
A History of Housecleaning from 1884
HOUSEKEEPING IN GENERAL
Old Strewing Herbs
A More Modern Way to “Strew Herbs”
AIR FRESHENERS
BATHROOMS
Fixtures
BUG REPELLANTS & EXTERMINATORS
FLOORS & CARPETS
KITCHENS
General Cleaners
Specific Cleaners
MISCELLANEOUS
PAINT
PLANTS THAT CLEAN THE AIR
STAIN REMOVAL
UPHOLSTERY AND FURNITURE
WALLS
WASH DAY HINTS
Laundry Soaps and Softeners
Fabrics - Special Care
Odor Removers
Ironing
Resources
Bibliography
Index
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