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
Great intertainment:
Great book. I've already tried some simple recipes and everything worked out pretty well so far. Still a lot to learn, but it's a lot of fun.
Keeping Pretty the Natural Way:
I love this book! As soon as I started reading it I could tell it was just what I was looking for. Every page is filled with useful information that is presented in a well organized, easy to understand manner. While the book does contain many useful and easy to make recipes, it also has basic information about the science behind beauty and why the product work (and also why you shouldn't use the mass marketed, chemical based products of the beauty industry). Anyone who is looking for a way to cook up... more info
Great ideas and recipes:
This book has great recipes and idea. I'm still shopping for ingredients and hope to making things soon!
Very nice book:
I like all the ideas and recipes in the book, and it's easy to read and understand--almost half is a glossary with discussion of many of the ingredients she uses, and the other is recipes. There are no pictures, it's not a visual book. I liked the simplicity of many of the concoctions and plan to make several, it seemed to be heavy on the masks and toners. Several recipes were one or two ingredients-hardly a recipe- and some recipes were referred back to - because it could be used as a cleansing cream and a... more info