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  • I Smell a Rat: Solving Rodent Problems
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  • Managing Fleas in Your Home
  • Spiders, Ants, Flies, and Cockroaches: Four Common Household Invaders
  • Removing a Lawn without Herbicides
  • Appropriate Plants for Northwest Landscapes
  • Reducing Exposure to Lead in Older Homes
  • Getting ahead of Lice
  • Vinyl Exam: Eliminating PVC in Your Home
  • Household Guide to Protecting Clean Water
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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
  • Antimicrobial Products: Who Needs Them?

Personal Care

  • Cosmetics and Personal-Care Products: Avoiding Bodily Harm
  • Getting Ahead of Lice

Lawn and Garden Pests and Chemicals

  • Tales from the North Side: Problems with Moss
  • European Crane Fly: Lawn Pest or Bird Food?
  • Removing a Lawn without Herbicides
  • Mosquito Megabites: Effective Mosquito Control
  • Keeping Molehills from Becoming Mountains
  • The Fruitful Northwest Home Orchard
  • Preventing Plant Diseases: Roots
  • Preventing Plant Diseases: Leaves 
  • Choosing Fertilizers for the Lawn and Garden
  • Aphids - Safe and Successful Control
  • Lawn Care
  • Weed Management for the Lawn and Garden 
  • Appropriate Plants for Northwest Landscapes
  • Garden Insect Pests (37kb PDF file)
  • Managing Tent Caterpillars Without Chemicals
  • 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
  • Managing Fleas in Your Home
  • Clothing Moths - Prevention and Control
  • Protecting Your Home From Carpenter Ants
  • 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
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