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Home Safe Home Fact Sheets - Full List
Links to all of our consumer fact sheets, available as PDF files. Topics include home and garden pest control, lawn care, plant selection, cleaning products, building materials, personal-care products, and much more.
Home Safe Home Fact Sheets
(Note: 30 of our popular Home Safe Home fact sheets have been compiled in a 131-page 25th anniversary book, Safer Alternatives for the home and Garden, available for purchase -- see bottom of this page for details.)
Cleaning Products and Antimicrobials
- Safer Cleaning Products (34kb PDF file)
- Antimicrobial Products: Who Needs Them? (67kb PDF file)
Personal Care
- Cosmetics and Personal-Care Products: Avoiding Bodily Harm (69kb PDF file)
- Getting Ahead of Lice (66kb PDF file)
Lawn and Garden Pests and Chemicals
- Tales from the North Side: Problems with Moss (500kb PDF file)
- European Crane Fly: Lawn Pest or Bird Food? (48kb PDF file)
- Removing a Lawn without Herbicides (361kb PDF file)
- Mosquito Megabites: Effective Mosquito Control (70kb PDF file)
- Keeping Molehills from Becoming Mountains (80kb PDF file)
- The Fruitful Northwest Home Orchard (80kb PDF file)
- Preventing Plant Diseases: Roots (43kb PDF file)
- Preventing Plant Diseases: Leaves (52kb PDF file)
- Choosing Fertilizers for the Lawn and Garden (35kb PDF file)
- Aphids - Safe and Successful Control (41kb PDF file)
- Lawn Care (38kb PDF file)
- Weed Management for the Lawn and Garden (39kb PDF file)
- Appropriate Plants for Northwest Landscapes (39kb PDF file)
- Garden Insect Pests (37kb PDF file)
- Managing Tent Caterpillars Without Chemicals (42kb PDF file)
- Getting Along with Yellowjackets (48kb PDF file)
- Protecting Your Plants From Slugs (90kb PDF file)
Indoor Pest Control Chemicals
- I Smell a Rat: Solving Rodent Problems (43kb PDF file)
- Managing Fleas in Your Home (43kb PDF file)
- Clothing Moths - Prevention and Control (39kb PDF file)
- Protecting Your Home From Carpenter Ants (42kb PDF file)
- Spiders, Ants, Flies, and Cockroaches: Four Common Household Invaders (188kb PDF file)
Art and Hobby Materials
- Art and Hobby Supplies (38kb PDF file)
Home Repair and Building Materials
- Vinyl Exam: Eliminating PVC in your Home (88kb PDF file)
- Paints and Wood Preservatives: Protecting your Wood and Your Health (36kb PDF file)
- Reducing Exposure to Lead in Older Homes (42kb PDF file)
General Household Topics
- Household Guide to Protecting Clean Water (58kb PDF file)
- Healthy Homes for Healthy Kids (50kb PDF file)
Also available, our new book:
- Safer Alternatives for the Home and Garden: The Complete 30 Home Safe Home Fact Sheets. This special 25th anniversary compilation contains updated versions of our hugely popular and informative Home Safe Home fact sheets, in a handy and easy to use spiral-bound format. Valuable tips on cleaning your home, healthy lawn and garden care, controlling indoor pests, and safer products in a broad range of categories. 131 pages. $19.95
