This volume shows how to let natural materials, such as fresh-cut lemons, vinegar, glycerine, baking soda, wheat-germ oil, beer, fragrant herbs, aspirin, butter, yoghourt, and petroleum jelly, do your dirty work for you. This A-Z illustrated directory of 47 natural ingredients aims to show how they can be used for safe and inexpensive cleaning. The book offers ways to remove stubborn stains from laundry, upholstery and carpets and how to make polishes, soap flakes, disinfectants, car polish, brass and silver polish, window cleaner, bath scourer, and dishwater powder, even natural flea and tick collars and powder, odour removers and kind doggie shampoo.