Whether you've always yearned to make your own horse-hoof grease or are just sick of paying for packaging and other manufacturers' fribbles, you can discover new vistas of self-reliance in this catalogue of useful home preparations from furniture polish to underarm deodarant, car wax to dandelion killer. Supplementary appendices provide a glossary of chemicals and a directory of sources; diagrams and operational rules for mixing procedures; metric conversion tables.