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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 foot care, 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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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is my first book purchase about the subject after library reading; others can be a little thin on why things work scientifically and why various ingredients are used. This book comprehensively covers that aspect, and is reasonably free from cranky or "mother goddess" stuff(!)
Two things others might want to note; it uses obviously American terms (eg. veg. shortening) and measurements and has no resource pages based in Europe; second, some of the ingredients used I have found from simple european research are considered "suspect" to use for skin, eg. borax for it's chemical toxicity and lanolin for it's pesticide residue and allergic reactions (something Tourles mentions but disregards.)So making products diy can be just as confusing as buying them if you want to avoid "nasties" - still, you can just test on yourself instead of animals!
So, as a beginner, I think it's good in that one can almost immediately start simply producing cleanser, toner, lip balm, body scrub, etc. and for anyone else purchasing this book in uk it is good to have the basics in front of you; as soon as you go to online ingredient shops you will discover other recipes and opinions or science about ingredients - I would have done more research anyway because of my own allergy problems.
Two things others might want to note; it uses obviously American terms (eg. veg. shortening) and measurements and has no resource pages based in Europe; second, some of the ingredients used I have found from simple european research are considered "suspect" to use for skin, eg. borax for it's chemical toxicity and lanolin for it's pesticide residue and allergic reactions (something Tourles mentions but disregards.)So making products diy can be just as confusing as buying them if you want to avoid "nasties" - still, you can just test on yourself instead of animals!
So, as a beginner, I think it's good in that one can almost immediately start simply producing cleanser, toner, lip balm, body scrub, etc. and for anyone else purchasing this book in uk it is good to have the basics in front of you; as soon as you go to online ingredient shops you will discover other recipes and opinions or science about ingredients - I would have done more research anyway because of my own allergy problems.
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book because I started to get interested in natural products. The results are unbelievable! I had been suffering from unidentified skin problems (though I saw four dermatologists from 2 countries), and I had been on corticosteroid and then hydrocortisone cream, a cream that I had been using for 7 years. Finally I decided to stop it. This book doesn't cure my disease, but it helps me to fight the rebound. I made different oils, elixirs and creams which are for soothing irritated skin, and that helped me to hang on. A bonus is that the Repair and Restore elixir is actually reducing the keloids that I had from vaccinations and biopsy! I think for anyone who is interested in making their own body products, this book is easy to use, and has information about different ingredients. The only shortcoming is the index. It only refers to the pages that contain basic information on different herbs, but not their occurrences in the recipes.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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This book is a very good one in the genre. It covers basic knowledge about the skin/hair and how they function and general health tips. It also gives brief but comprehensive descriptions of ingredients and possible substitutes for them. I enjoyed that part a lot actually. The recipes are very nicely presented, but it would have been nice with metric conversions too (wouldn't take much space to print side by side as is seen in other books).
Like another reviewer here has said though, it has a few flaws for instance using borax in many of the recipes - which is an ingredient considered toxic and has very strict regulation rules as to how much a product can contain in Europe and it always has to be marked. An easy replacement of borax is baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) which is quite a bit safer. The author does not mention this.
As with many other books in the genre I lack a focus on hair-care. There are almost never more than 2-3 recipes for shampoos and even less for conditioners usually. Yes, it's a bit hard to make them to a similar standard as commercial ones without crazy chemicals, but there are options - for instance soap nuts, rhassoul clay or even making soaps but with high oil-content.
In general I'd still recommend this book - it is very thorough and has many lovely formulas that I definitely will use myself. It's good for the starter - but as always - be critical about what you read. :)
Like another reviewer here has said though, it has a few flaws for instance using borax in many of the recipes - which is an ingredient considered toxic and has very strict regulation rules as to how much a product can contain in Europe and it always has to be marked. An easy replacement of borax is baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) which is quite a bit safer. The author does not mention this.
As with many other books in the genre I lack a focus on hair-care. There are almost never more than 2-3 recipes for shampoos and even less for conditioners usually. Yes, it's a bit hard to make them to a similar standard as commercial ones without crazy chemicals, but there are options - for instance soap nuts, rhassoul clay or even making soaps but with high oil-content.
In general I'd still recommend this book - it is very thorough and has many lovely formulas that I definitely will use myself. It's good for the starter - but as always - be critical about what you read. :)
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
amazing book.
it have recipes for everything u can imagine. very weel organized boook. lots and lots of recipes. very good paper quality. i haven't read it all but so far i'm loving it.
Published 5 months ago by mizwaste
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This is one of the best books of organic recipes currently on the market. The recipes are easy to follow, smell wonderful and are excellent products. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mary Shelley 2
Inspiring!
Bought this as I thought I would make my own cosmetics. Turns out there's more to it than I thought. However, the book's a interesting read!
Published 17 months ago by Frankie.finns
Organic body care recipes.
Great book I got for my mum to start a hobby.
Shame there's no pictures to look at too but the book is great.
Shame there's no pictures to look at too but the book is great.
Published 20 months ago by Tinks.
Easy to source ingredients
The author briefly explains the characteristics/benefits of a list of oil/ingredients and then goes on to use them in recipes. I have not tried the recipes yet. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Lotus
Book that I use the most!!
This is a book that I bought six months ago and since then I've used it as a fantastic reference book in preparing my own skin care products! Read more
Published on 11 April 2010 by D. Risovic
Brilliant
This was a gift for my mother as she decided she wanted to make her own soaps and creams etc. and i nust say she absolutely loved it, it is perfect for beginners and experts alike. Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2010 by Ce'anne Griffiths
Wonderful book
Fantastic book. I've had this book for a couple of months and I've tried lots of the recipies and the are all great. Read more
Published on 9 Feb 2010 by Hello Kitty
A very well thought out book
I couldnt put this book down - it is so informative and has given me so many ideas for creating my own products, all of the ingredients seem easy to obtain. Read more
Published on 22 Dec 2009 by Rosemary
Lovely book to own
Bought this book and loved even just reading it. Can't wait to get stuck in to make some of the recipes. Read more
Published on 16 Jun 2009 by McSqueezy
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