Average customer rating:
- Good start, but I some criticisms
- Packed FULL of awesome info to help your health!
- Only one minor flaw
- Aromatherapy/Essential Oils
- be careful...
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The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy: Over 600 Natural, Non-Toxic and Fragrant Recipes to Create Health - Beauty - a Safe Home Environment
Valerie Ann Worwood
Manufacturer: New World Library
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Book Description
A necessary resource for anyone interested in alternative approaches to healing, this book contains more than 600 easy-to-follow recipes for essential oil treatments and aromatherapy.
Customer Reviews:
Good start, but I some criticisms.......2007-10-09
This has a lot of interesting explanations on how the oils mix, about synergistic blends. It is a great overview of aromatherapy.
However, I find the book to be a little bit too preachy. When the author wrote this book, did she consider the audience? Every other sentence explains about the toxicity and the poisons of our every day products. It's a bit much. One doesn't need to convert the choir. They are already converted, at least part way. One can do without such overt preachiness.
My second criticism is that the book is designed for a beginner. As a beginner, it seems to me that the recipes should be a little more basic. While in the beginning, she discusses the 10 essential oils that everyone should have in their basic care arsenal, the other recipes often go far beyond those 10. As a beginner, I have yet to acquire all of these costly oils, and then some. It would be helpful to have recipes that didn't contain 6-10 different oils. An example would be: these two oils is a basic recipe for this, and if you really want to go further, add these as well. (There are a number of recipes like that, but they are far and few.) Also, it would be nice to know why one essential oil was chosen over another for a certain mixture. Is it for anti-inflammatory reasons? For general antiseptic? Anti fungal? One has to do a lot of guessing. This is supposed to be a beginners book, after all.
Packed FULL of awesome info to help your health!.......2007-07-28
i bought two! gotta get it!
Keys to Third Heaven...Using Third Heaven Revelation to Impact a World
Seers Handbook
Only one minor flaw.......2007-06-21
Outstanding "British" book, but the Index table could be seriously improved. I hope the next edition will correct this minor detail.
Aromatherapy/Essential Oils.......2007-05-26
I usually use Gel Candles to fragrance my home. My daughter first told me about all types of Essential Oils and what they can do. So I went into the Internet and found this great book. It explains everything there is to know. For example, what is safe to use in the home, around children and pets. Its also explains what the scents are, which I plan to use to making greater Gel Candles. Most Important, what not to use cause it can be dangerous to your health. I really recommend this book.
be careful..........2007-05-26
The information and rememdies in this book are good but I found very important information on toxicity of oils to be lacking. In short, I tried a remedy for bunions by following the instructions given in the book, but I started feeling very strange and it wasn't until I read another reference book on essential oils that I found tagetes oil is listed on the toxic oil list. The warning is to use it only very diluted (which her recipe was NOT)and for only two weeks. There are some other oils in her recipes that are photoxic for the skin but there is no mention of this in her book. It's of vital importance that the consumer know the complete information about all the oils they will be using. I would recommend buying a complete reference book of esential oils as a companion to this one.
Average customer rating:
- A decent reference, many limitations as a how-to, somewhat dated
- More information than I needed
- soap =maker's companion
- Good Basic Info....
- Not Just for Newbie Soap Makers
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Soapmaker's Companion: A Comprehensive Guide with Recipes, Techniques & Know-How (Natural Body Series - The Natural Way to Enhance Your Life)
Susan Miller Cavitch
Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC
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ASIN: 0882669656 |
Book Description
Basic soapmaking instruction and specialty techniques like marbling, layering, and making transparent and liquid soaps.
Customer Reviews:
A decent reference, many limitations as a how-to, somewhat dated.......2007-09-16
I bought this book years ago, when I first started making soap. It has a wealth of good reference information on different oils, colorants, additives, etc., information that I still refer to occasionally. Unfortunately it's usefulness as a guide is somewhat limited by several things:
1) She is biased against the use of any ingredients of animal origin, especially animal fats. No coverage of the use of animal fats in soap is given at all, and her only excuse is lame, and not backed up any actual science.
2) Her recipes are too large, are overly complicated, and way too superfatted. Plus she recommends the use of GSE, an ingredient whose use as a preservative has been thoroughly discredited.
3) Some of her warnings/cautions are odd, to say the least. Her paranoia of clay, for one, is downright bizarre. Her admonition against pouring raw soap down the drain, in the event of a ruined batch, is utterly nonsensical.
4) The chapter on the chemistry of soap making is too much. She tries to go so in-depth that she's obviously in over her head, to the point that I was embarassed for her when I read it. The information here that would be useful/interesting to soap makers could have been condensed to a couple of pages.
5) She only covers cold process, and then, only cold process where the ingredients are combined at higher temperatures. There's no excuse for only covering the cold process in a "comprehensive" guide, but the fact that she only gives one basic cold process method may be an artifact of the next problem...
6) This book is dated. I started making soap around 2000, and even then people were using stick (aka immersion) blenders to mix their soap. There's no mention of stick blenders at all in this book, and that's a HUGE ommission. There's also no mention of alternative cold process techniques that are very mainstream today; e.g. discount water cold process, and room temperature cold process.
The bottom line is that there are a number of other books on the market that contain much more up-to-date soap making information than this one, not to mention all of the resources available on the internet. This book is still worth checking out, but don't expect it to be what it claims to be.
More information than I needed.......2007-05-31
As a novice soapmaker, I found this book intimidating...far too technical. After reading a more remedial book and making soap a few times, I tried re-reading the book and understood more of it, but still found there was more detail in the book than the average CP soapmaker needs.
soap =maker's companion.......2007-05-13
I really like this resource...
The author is well versed in soap making and shares a lot of information relevant to those with some soapmaking experience and questions.
Good Basic Info...........2007-03-31
This book and the other I purchased in the series (The Natural Soap Book) have good information but I find it a lil unrealistic when it comes to recipes. The recipes she gives are for gigantic batches of soaps. For the beginning soapmakers they are dang near ridiculous in size for batches. I found the book Smart Soapmaking by Anne L. Watson much more geared towards beginning and intermediate soapmakers with much better information including wonderful resources for lye calculators and recipe calculators that you can set the superfat discounts and water % as well. Was much more resourceful to me than these books by cavitch.
Not Just for Newbie Soap Makers.......2007-01-26
Great book for new soapmakers as well as those who have been soaping for awhile. Clear and concise directions guide you through the soap making experience.
Average customer rating:
- Good stuff but missing stuff
- OK for beginners
- Do your homework first...
- Awesome!!
- Great ideas
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Natural Beauty at Home, : More Than 250 Easy to Use Recipes for Body,Bath, and Hair (Revised Edition)
Janice Cox
Manufacturer: Owl Books
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Binding: Paperback
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Natural Beauty for All Seasons: More Than 250 Simple Recipes and Gift-Giving Ideas for Year-Round Beauty
ASIN: 0805070222 |
Book Description
A revised edition of the bestselling guide to easy and effective home beauty treatments from America's natural beauty expertBeauty in modern America is a multibillion-dollar industry, and consumers spend hundreds of dollars on beauty products only to discover that they aren't satisfactory or effective. Natural Beauty at Home includes over two hundred of Janice Cox's recipes (many have been passed down through three generations of her family) for everything from shampoo and mouthwash to face masks and lip gloss, so readers can customize their beauty regimen, save money, and have fun, all at once. In this new edition, Cox has refined over twenty years' worth of simple and self-indulgent recipes for body and soul, including: cleaners and scrubs creams and lotions massage oils and aromatherapy hair-care products
Customer Reviews:
Good stuff but missing stuff.......2007-09-03
I really liked this book; however I wish there were more recipes for like soaks for pedicures & manicures & baths.
OK for beginners.......2007-04-09
The book has some interesting ideas and recipes but it covers mostly what is already widely known. Also in the recipes it does not clearly specify which facial preparations are going to be non-greasy day creams or greasy night ones.
I expected to find some make-up recipes but they aren't in the book.
Generally it is a good book for a beginner.
Do your homework first..........2007-03-03
I was VERY disappointed in this book for several reasons:
1). The author mentions the use of mineral oil and petrolatum as a moisturizer (for those of you that don't know these are byproducts of gasoline and are AWFUL for your skin, the cosmetic/beauty industry only use it because it is dirt cheap and never goes bad).
2). It is not practical to put your time and effort into making something for one application (will we really see results after just one use?). I suppose you can multiply the recipes but most of the recipes need to be used ASAP or they spoil. Needless to say I have not found a happy medium!
3). I have coarse curly hair- I tried one of the "hair packs" and needless to say it was a MESS! It took several shampoos to get all of the stuff out of my hair.
In conclusion, I would reccommend you research what products are actually good for you and not just convienient for the makers!
Awesome!!.......2007-01-22
I always wanted to learn how to make my own beauty products without all of the harmful chemicals that I always come across while shopping at a retail store. I have bought other books in that past only to find that it was incredibly expensive and almost impossible to find all of the ingredients, but not this one! I am able to make most of the recipes with the items I already have at home! I also love the fact that most of the recipes only require a few ingredients. The recipes are also extremely effective and the book also explains the purpose of each ingredient.
Great ideas.......2007-01-18
I love this book...I ordered a few of them to start making my own cosmetics after researching all the nasty things that are in what we actually cover our bodies with. Our skin is the biggest way into our insides and it affects us more than we even realize. this book has helped me come up with my own variations. Thank you for the very useful and helpful information: Easy to read, easy to follow and lots of fun, too. Great price too,Amazon.com!
Average customer rating:
- Great Soap Book!
- I LOVE This Book!
- disappointed
- Great things come in small packages!
- smart soaping
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Smart Soapmaking: The Simple Guide to Making Traditional Handmade Soap Quickly, Safely, and Reliably, or How to Make Luxurious Handcrafted Soaps for Family, Friends, and Yourself
Anne L. Watson
Manufacturer: Shepard Publications
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ASIN: 0938497421
Release Date: 2007-01-01 |
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Maybe you've made melt-and-pour soap and want to move on to something more challenging and rewarding. Maybe traditional soapmaking appeals to you, but you figure it's too difficult or dangerous. Or maybe you're already doing it, but outmoded ideas and methods are complicating the process and slowing you down. No matter which of these fits you, you'll find Smart Soapmaking practical, helpful, and refreshing. Written by a former professional soapmaker, this book explodes the myths about soapmaking and shows you how to make luxurious soap with the least fuss and bother.
Customer Reviews:
Great Soap Book!.......2007-09-25
I purchased three books on soapmaking, and in my opinion, this one is by far the very best! The author's instructions are clear, concise, and the techniques are simplified and de-mystified over other soapmaking books. I made my first batch of "Anne's Shea Butter Supreme" today, and the soap turned out beautifully without a glitch. I also had a newbie question about a product I purchased, so I emailed the author. Anne responded back quickly and was very helpful, a fact that I greatly appreciated! I can't wait to use my soap and make more of the recipes from the book.
I LOVE This Book!.......2007-08-14
Anne makes soapmaking simple -- I'm a newbie and I'm still learning. This book gives just enough information to educate, without overwhelming. She challenges the "soap theology" of most of the other books, but it makes sense.
I highly recommend it!
disappointed.......2007-07-14
After reading all the great reviews I was expecting a lot more than this. The first disappointment was how thin the book was - just over a hundred pages. Then it's all questions and answers (the ones the author thinks are important) and a couple of recipes which aren't very great either. I don't recommend this book for beginners, it won't tell you how to make soap. And it's definitely not a book for experienced soapmakers who, like I, have been making soap for years. You won't find anything new in there.
I guess this book would be for the in-between soapmakers. You've made a couple of batches and have a few questions. Though, personally, I think you'd find those answers in most good soapmaking books.
Not worth the money.
Great things come in small packages!.......2007-07-09
This book has everything you need to start making soap. The instructions and illustrations for the cold-process of soap making are easy to follow, the recipes are simple and produce great soap every time. Anne's Shea Butter Soap is a very versatile recipe, and her references to other sources are invaluable. Would love to see the author produce a volume of soap recipes!
smart soaping.......2007-05-07
You can't go wrong with this book. If you get anybook on soaping this is the one you need.
Average customer rating:
- One warning
- light and entertaining
- I wish there was a craft book with SIMPLE ingredients.
- Good book
- Misleading
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Natural Beauty for All Seasons: More Than 250 Simple Recipes and Gift-Giving Ideas for Year-Round Beauty
Janice Cox , and
Dorothy Reinhardt
Manufacturer: Owl Books
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0805046550 |
Book Description
Cox offers readers more than 250 brand-new recipes for body, bath, and hair care, with an eye toward special beauty needs and ingredient avail-ability in each of the four seasons.
Customer Reviews:
One warning.......2003-10-13
This book has some fabulous ideas for facial scrubs and massage oil BUT reader be warned of the BANANA-HONEY conditioner! I tried this and the gooey bananas would NOT come out of my hair. It took 4 shampoos and a LOT of brushing. Not a fun morning.
light and entertaining.......2003-05-10
I had fun reading through the recipes in this book evening if I do not have enough time to make them.
I recommend getting Natural Beauty for all Seasons by Cox if you enjoy simple pleasures like house work and gardening. But get Healthy Beauty using nature's secrets to look great and feel terrific by Hadady if you want advice on top quality natural cruelty-free products you can buy.
I wish there was a craft book with SIMPLE ingredients........2002-09-03
I decided to check this book out at a bookstore first, because I have gotten so many craft books that sound really great, but the materials and ingredients needed are very exotic or expensive. This book is no exception. Although the recipes and ideas are simple and easy, the essential oils needed (which are NOT cheap, mind you.) and the other array of items (that no one keeps in their house) would cost a fortune.
Her other book, "Natural Beauty at Home", is a MUCH better book, with the same easy and simple instructions, and realistic materials. Ideas like oatmeal masks, potpurri, and soap that are not hard to do, and not pricey. I highly recommend this one over "Natural Beauty for All Seasons".
Good book.......2002-06-17
It got easy follow recipes, easy find ingredients.
Perfect for prepare homemade gift.
I follow the recipes prepare gift for my mother-in-Law and my husband's sister and recently they are very happy with me...Sure!!!
So glad to get such easy recipes to make someone else happy!!!!
Good Book!!!!
Misleading.......2002-05-11
I didn't care for this book. I have several (home-made toiletries) books and I was dissapointed in this one. There should have been more recipes that incorporate the use of 'raw' natural materials OTHER than food. Food is extremely perishable. There ARE natural preservatives available on the market (Vit E, Grapefruit Seed Extract, Germaben II) that could have been utilized to come up with many good recipes. I also didn't like the fact that castor and mineral oils were used in some of the recipes, as these will clog up pores tremendously. In the Gift-Giving section, her ideas were good, though I would have liked to have seen some actual recipes and step-by-step instructions on the creations of these ideas. All in all, I give this book a 2-star rating. There ARE a few recipes in here that I will use, but hardly worth the price of that I payed. I could have had a better response via the search engines on the internet and saved the money.
Average customer rating:
- Not what I was looking for
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Natural Beauty Recipe Book: How to Make Your Own Organic Cosmetics and Beauty Products
Gill Farrer-Halls
Manufacturer: Quarry Books
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1592532985 |
Book Description
Over 60 recipes for natural beauty organic makeup made easy.
Natural and organic are the buzz words in cosmetics. Even for over-the-counter products, everyone from Gwyneth Paltrow to Jack Nicholson is going organic when it comes to beauty. This beautiful book shows you how to make your own handcrafted, organic makeup, soap, and perfume using essential oils and other natural ingredients. Lush, Origins, the Body Shop, Kiehl's, and Neal's Yard are all packed with customers eager to find the next organic facial mask, rejuvenating skin cream, deodorant, or body lotion. With this book, you can personalize your beauty regimen without standing in line and without spending tons of money. The Natural Beauty Recipe Book features a range of recipes for quick-and-easy daily products you can make at home: face cleansers, eye cleansers, toners, moisturizing creams and gels, cold cream cleanser, hand cream, body lotion, lip balm, face masks, rejuvenating treatments, liquid shampoos, hair bars, conditioners, rinses, hair nourishing treatments, deodorants, mouthwashes, aftershaves, eye baths, soaps and scents.
Customer Reviews:
Not what I was looking for.......2007-06-16
I was disappointed with this book because I was looking for a recipes that you could make from various fruits / veges etc. However this entire book consists of mixing together pre bought items such as essential oils and creams such as shampoo or lotion bases. Basically this book tells you to buy a whole bunch of stuff and how to mix it together.
Average customer rating:
- It has everything
- A great book to have fun with - and learn some magic as well
- Some really wonderful and healthy ideas!
- More than I ever imagined
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Natural Beauty From The Garden: More Than 200 Do-It-Yourself Beauty Recipes & Garden Ideas (Natural Beauty)
Janice Cox
Manufacturer: Owl Books
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ASIN: 0805057811 |
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The third book in the very successful Natural Beauty series with sales over 70,000.If Natural Beauty at Home was inspired by the kitchen, and Natural Beauty for All Seasons was inspired by gift-giving, this book is inspired by the garden. Here, author Janice Cox presents over two hundred brand-new recipes for home beauty treatments that make use of common flowers, plants, herbs, grasses, and trees to create useful and lovely products for all aspects of skin, hair care, and bathing enjoyment. Readers will have her trademark step-by-step recipes for such items as Sunflower Seed Scrub, Aloe and Calula Cream, Rose Geranium Splash, Apricot Baby Oil, Scented Bath Pillow, and many, many more. In addition, over one hundred garden notes are sprinkled throughout the book, containing information on soil type, tools, containers, growing tips, and simple, whimsical garden designs. But, although gardeners will be drawn to this aspect of the book, you don't have to have a garden, or even a window box, to make the recipes here, since all ingredients can be found in natural food stores or farmers' markets. Natural Beauty from the Garden simply captures the spirit of the outdoors while promoting a fun, economical, natural beauty regime. This is a charming collection of beauty and garden freshness that anyone who loves to pamper herself or grow a garden full of flowers will want to have.
Customer Reviews:
It has everything.......2006-07-10
You can get this book at your local library so if your interested check it out. It has everything from henna hair coloring to a dogwood toothbrush. I just want to buy the book and try every recipe out of the book after I seen it and looked it over in the library. I highly reccomend this book to anyone!
A great book to have fun with - and learn some magic as well.......2005-10-21
This book is great in that it's easy to read, fun to skim through, and filled to the brim with useful recipes and ideas. From hair care, to skin, to lips, to homemade makeup and bath products, Cox covers just about all of it. Some herbs and natural remedies are covered with interesting folklore and background, such as the Hopi wedding Indian ritual.
The reasons it only earns an average rating, however, is due to several issues. For one thing, it really is just beauty from the kitchen. The vast majority of these recipes are all those you make at once and use only once. No actual 'cosmetic' recipes or long lasting toiletries. Lotions and creams are pretty basic and are actually old fashioned, such as with borax and beeswax, not highly recommended ways of making lotion. Very little on herbs are covered, mainly with veggies and fruits and stuff such as that.
The craft ideas are very basic but good ideas, such as creating a personalized hair brush. There are some great recipes for soaps but no beginner instructions or many safety precautions. The list is not long for these but she does cover just about everything in natural beauty, I just wish she covered it for more than just 'kitchen quick fixes'
Some really wonderful and healthy ideas!.......1999-10-12
I took this book out of the library and was pleasantly surprised! In the past I have found that beauty recipes can be challenging. With this book the ingredients are accesible and the recipes aren't difficult to make. I have started copying out recipes to try and will add this book to my christmas list!
More than I ever imagined.......1999-05-13
I loved the other two books a lot. When I bought this book, I was hesitant that there could possibly be much more that Janice could show me... Was I wrong? YES! Filled with loads of information and wonderful recipes and how-tos this book doesn't even reach the bookshelf, I keep it so handy! Great job Janice Cox!
Average customer rating:
- Tons of Girl Fun!
- Great book!
- hi
- Klutz Strikes Again!
- GREAT for preteens,girls with sensitive skin,and scientists
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The Body Book: Recipes for Natural Body Care
Anne Akers Johnson
Manufacturer: Klutz
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
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A cookbook of simple, natural recipes for treating hair, skin and nails. Comes complete with a home spa kit, including a nail buffer, facial brush, pumice stone, three essential oils (lavender, peppermint and tangerine) and more. For tweens and teens, this book is a natural. PUBCOMMENTS: Winner of Canadian Toy Testing Council Children's Choice Award, DiscoverySchool.com Award of Excellence
Customer Reviews:
Tons of Girl Fun!.......2007-09-24
Haven't had much time to even try any of the recipes in the book. But have looked all through it, have used some of the great tools the book comes with. I like the simple ideas using the simple kitchen items. Would be great fun to have girls do at a slumber party. Or just a little mom time, which is what I got it for. I would recommend this book to anybody who likes to take care of themselves, naturally, and have fun while doing it. This would be great to have while watching a good movie too! Hope this helps.
Great book!.......2006-04-16
When I first bought this book, I was worried that it wouldn't be worth 20 bucks because it had only 7o pages, I was sooooo wrong!
This book is my first spa recipe book, if i could describe it in one word, it'd be wow. Just wow. The nail buffer that comes with it is soooo cool. I never new how to get rid of the ridges on my nails and make them shiney until i read this book and used the nail buffer.This book changed a part of my life! A biiiig part. It even comes with pumic! The miracle of this rock is fantastic, it removes dead skin cells(doesn't hurt a bit) Though i should tell you, it may be kind of a challenge to find rosewater and citric acid. (i havent found it yet but i just got this book 2 days ago.) Anyway, EXCELLENT PRODUCT! a must-have for spa lovers or people who are really tense.
hi.......2003-09-08
this book is really cool. it gives you great directions and as a whole, picks recipes that include ingredients you could find at home. it also includes essential oils and other must-haves. this book is really fun and would make a great gift.
Klutz Strikes Again!.......2003-07-29
I have to say, I'm a sucker for Klutz books. They give simple, easy to read instructions, and you get all of the supplies to do it with! How fun!
The Body Book is my favorite book of all, though. It has tons of recepies for your skin, hair, face, hands, nails, and feet. All the ingredients I have tried so far have made a signifant difference after I tried them! The book includes three essensial oil bottles, a shower cap, tools for your nails, a foot scrub, and a face brush. The pictures in the book are beautiful as well, which makes it all the more worthwile to read. Who would I suggest this book to? Girls 12 and up, teenage girls would especially love it, but I'm sure many women would too! It makes a great gift!
GREAT for preteens,girls with sensitive skin,and scientists.......2002-09-23
****My mom bought this for 10-year-old Amanda, who has eczema, and has to be careful what she puts on her skin.
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For other pre teens who need to be careful of skin, - this is great! You know what the ingredients are, as you make the concoctions yourself. Now all can join the herbal and scented shampoo/body potion craze.
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Directions are easy to follow, but be prepared for a little searching for a couple ingredients (we initially had trouble finding sea salt which was used in one of the best recipes)
Great recipes included milk bath for dry skin, and salt skin scrubs (seriously-feels great!) for mild exfoliating and skin softening.
Pre-teens and teens can follow recipe instructions fairly easily, but may need help shopping for a couple of the more hard to find ingredients. (Natural beauty supply stores and the Internet helped)
****Lots of good, *clean*, healthy fun, attractive to young teen girls
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How to Make Your Own Organic Cosmetics: Soap and Scent: Recipes for Natural Beauty (How to Make Your Own Organic Cosmetics)
Gill Farrer-Halls
Manufacturer: Quarry Books
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Binding: Paperback
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How to Make Your Own Organic Cosmetics: Face Masks, Hair Rinses & Body Lotions: Recipes for Natural Beauty (How to Make Your Own Organic Cosmetics)
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Making Aromatherapy Creams and Lotions: 101 Natural Formulas to Revitalize & Nourish Your Skin
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The Natural Soap Book: Making Herbal and Vegetable-Based Soaps
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Natural Beauty at Home, : More Than 250 Easy to Use Recipes for Body,Bath, and Hair (Revised Edition)
ASIN: 1592531024 |
Book Description
Imagine beautifully scented soaps and cosmetics so pure they look good enough to eat. Such luxury items are typically only found at upscale boutiques, but now, this book brings them home, allowing consumers to mix their own scents and personalize their own cosmetic products.
SOAP & SCENT provides inspiration and instruction to make you own beauty products easily and inexpensively without sacrificing quality. The products featured in these pages use only natural, organic ingredients that haven?t been tested on animals.
Learn how to make sea vegetable soap, fruit soaps, bath bombs, massage bars, shampoos, facial masks, eye shadows, and so much more. If you?re passionate about using only pure ingredients on your face and skin, then this is the book for you.
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Good Book.......2006-11-10
This is the first book I bought to learn to make cold processed soap. The pictures are lovely and the content is good to a certain extent. I did make my first soaps from receipes in this book. I think this is a good starter book; however, if the art of soapmaking truly interests you, you will want to buy a more indepth book.
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- Natural Baby Care : Pure and Soothing Recipes and Techniques for Mothers and Babies (Natural Health and Beauty Series)
- Great book for first time parents.
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Natural Baby Care: Pure and Soothing Recipes and Techniques for Mothers and Babies (Natural Health and Beauty Series)
Colleen K. Dodt
Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC
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ASIN: 0882669532 |
Book Description
Using easy-to-follow instructions, parents can make natural lotions, bath oils, creams, powders, and shampoos that will ensure glowing health and enhance the bond between parent and child. Includes information on self-care during pregnancy, infant massage, and gift ideas.
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Awesome!.......2006-11-10
This book is full of great tips, I really enjoyed reading it. If you are pregnant, don't wait to have your baby, before buying this book, there are a bunch of tips about pregnancy in it.
Natural Baby Care : Pure and Soothing Recipes and Techniques for Mothers and Babies (Natural Health and Beauty Series) .......2005-08-10
I ordered this book to send to my sister (& 1 for myself) because it seemed so interesting. I love it... the condition is excellent (both books) and they came FAST! Very pleased w/this supplier. Would recommend based on this experience.
Great book for first time parents........1999-07-01
This is the perfect book for someone who is interested in caring for they their child in the most natural ways possible. It contains clear and easy to understand explanations on herbs, essential oils, and aromatherapy. It also is full of great recipes and advice to help you get started. This book is full of great resources, too. It's a must for people interested in this subject but unsure as to where to begin.
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