FORGOTTEN WAYS FOR MODERN DAYS

In the past, homemakers used ingredients from kitchen cupboards, the veg patch or foraged from hedgerows to clean clothes, cure a chesty cough and freshen the skin, whilst scraps of fabric were recycled in endless useful ways. With sections on Cleaning, Laundry, The Kitchen, In the Garden, Natural Health, and Beauty, Rachelle Blondel presents clever tips such as how to brighten your whites by putting eggshells in your wash, how to make re-usable beeswax food wrap, a honey and lemon throat soother and a bits and bobs eiderdown.