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 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13560 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Customer Reviews

Amazing results!
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.

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. Some are easy and some sound a bit more tricky but am looking forward to giving them a go. A great book with lots of different things to try and some great advice. Not the book for everyone but then what book is!! I love it and will definitely be recommending it to friends and family, I hope you enjoy it as much as I have already!

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. I would highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to make their own natural products.