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Organic Body Care Recipes: 175 Homeade Herbal Formulas for Glowing Skin & a Vibrant Self |  | Author: Stephanie Tourles
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 4023
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 7.9 x 1
ISBN: 1580176763
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.488
EAN: 9781580176767
ASIN: 1580176763
Publication Date: May 30, 2007
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Product Description
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.
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 Great intertainment March 10, 2010
Laura Leigh
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 March 2, 2010
The Good Fairy
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 cosmetics in their own kitchen should look here first.
 Great ideas and recipes January 31, 2010
T. REED (Maine)
This book has great recipes and idea. I'm still shopping for ingredients and hope to making things soon!
Very nice book January 10, 2010
pattyl (florida)
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 lotion, so instead of a new recipe, it sent you back to look at the lotion for the recipe.
I had hoped for more recipes that aren't to be used right away, like the many fresh fruit uses, or that have to be refrigerated to last 6 months. It doesn't really go into the differences between changing ingredients- like if you use a, end product will be smoother, etc.,- but it does give substitutes for most ingredients if you don't have the one listed.
I would also have liked more types of items, more shampoo, salves, and base recipes to add to according to need, and more that would keep longer, or how to keep them longer. I realize to keep it natural it's hard to preserve them, but I rarely keep things in the fridge.
That being said, it was entertaining, gave lots of good info, personable writing, and gets you interested in doing some things for yourself, explained a lot of basics and which things were good for different skin types. I'm glad I bought it and will enjoy trying some of the recipes out!
Thorough and amazing December 29, 2009
J. McDonald (San Francisco, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just received this book for Christmas and it is simply fantastic. The author spends the first part of the book overviewing skin, hair, nails, and the various conditions each can be in. She then describes the various natural ingredients one can use to create the beauty/bath products before diving into the recipes themselves. I found it very insightful and engaging. I will definitely refer back to it again and again as I continue to make my own bath products. This is a great book.
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