Book Review: Naturally Clean: The Seventh Generation Guide to Safe and Healthy, Non-Toxic Cleaning

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Perhaps the book's greatest selling point, however, is its section on recommended products. With ingredients gathered from product labels, manufacturer safety data sheets, information from the web and calls to the manufacturers when all other sources failed, the authors evaluated 300 cleaning products and then graded them based on their acute, chronic and eco toxicity. The final result of their evaluation is a list of the best products from their evaluation organized by product category. And if you're wondering, the Seventh Generation products didn't always come out on top, a nice testament to the way in which information was objectively presented throughout the entire book. To complement this rating, they also included an index of the ingredients used in each of the top-rated products. The index describes each ingredient's function, potential health and/or environmental hazards and in what types of products it's commonly used.

Keeping a copy of this book handy is going to save you hours at the grocery store scouring labels that provide inadequate warnings and incomplete ingredients lists. But Naturally Clean will also leave you with a reassuring sense of control about what comes into, and goes out of, your house—perhaps its greatest accomplishment.

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