Radiantly healthy skin, hair, feet, hands, eyes, and nails. Commercial beauty products make this promise every day and live up to it with varying degrees of success. Stephanie Tourles offers a better solution to everyone frustrated with the endless cycle of expensive, synthetic, famous-name cosmetics that often fall short of expectations. Take control of beauty treatments with homemade products that use safe, nourishing ingredients to pamper the body and soothe the senses. Tourles, a licensed esthetician, herbalist, and aromatherapist, has developed 175 recipes that are fun, simple, and immensely satisfying to make in home kitchens. Her natural beauty treatments deliver the results promised by department store brands -- skin, hair, and nails that glow with vitality and inner wellness. Lotions, scrubs, toners, balms, and masks polish and balance the skin, soothe current problems, and prevent future ones. Shampoos, rinses, and conditioners tone the scalp, boost highlights, and leave hair soft and shiny. The book's whole-body coverage also includes recipes for hand and footcare, nail treatments, shaving cream, and even popular spa treatments such as microdermabrasion exfoliants, detox and cellulite soaks, ayurvedic oils, and herbal cold salves. Most important, there is never any doubt about the purity of these ingredients! Each formula is clearly presented in recipe style, with notes on prep time, storage, and uses. Many products can be customized according to personal needs, whim, or mood, and they all use readily available, natural ingredients. Organic Body Care Recipes is a natural treasure for every body.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Awesome book!:
Great recipes! My wife is making some really great stuff from this the information in this book. Highly recommended for those who prefer the organic approach.
Good for casual/basic recipes, but may not satisfy everyone:
I purchased this book primarily because I am interested in making my own lotion, preferably with safe/natural/eco-friendly ingredients. I don't necessarily want to market it, like another reviewer, but I would like to make lotion that is somewhat professional/sophisticated. After a quick Google search, I had learned that lotions tend to include water-based ingredients, oil-based ingredients, an emulsifier (which ensures that the water and oil ingredients stay mixed together), and some kind of preservative.... more info
Nice book but not so organic...:
I bought this book during my Earth Day green shopping spree, and I am a bit disappointed. Many recipes call for the use of petroleum jelly or talc - definitely not organic! I didn't really get the recommendations for douches - the author is not an ob-gyn, why recommend something that is widely disputed as unsafe? And herbal "love potions" - I mean, this sounds like something advertised in spam mail. There are so many more useful applications for essential oils. I'd rather use some help in making room... more info
Wonderful for Save Your Money, Feed Your Skin Recipes:
What I love most about this book is that author Stephanie Tourles really opened my eyes for the first time of the importance of feeding my skin, and that my skin is the largest organ of my body. When we buy commercially made lotions, sunscreens and other cosmetics, we are literally "eating" chemicals through the largest organ on our body. Yech!! I have made several of the recipes she has listed and love them all. I especially love the lip balm recipe she lists and the body balm recipe. And I love that... more info
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