The Cosmetics Cookbook: Over 50 recipes to beautify your face, hair, and entire body you can whip up at home for practically pennies! [Paperback]

Lisa Sharon Belkin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 6, 2008

The Cosmetics Cookbook is a recipe book that contains over 50 simple recipes that you can create at home to beautify and restore health to your skin, hair and entire body using only natural ingredients. The book is divided into several sections such as facial saunas, facial cleansers, tonics and fresheners, masks, hair repairs, and entire body. Each section is introduced with an explanation of its importance and is then followed by several recipe choices. This is an exciting book for women and men of all ages who want to learn how to restore and maintain healthy skin and hair by creating recipes at home using ingredients that are natural, inexpensive, and that can probably be found in any kitchen.

This coil bound book is very elegant with its classic linen texture in Baronial Ivory and gold foil border on a plastic laminated front cover.

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Editorial Reviews

Review

"These recipes demystify cosmetics. They do the same things commercial products promise to do, without all the chemicals" -- Winnipeg Free Press, Newspaper, April 28, 1999

About the Author

Lisa Sharon Belkin is a teacher and counsellor by profession. She is also an artist and sculptor and is involved in many projects. she lives in Winnipeg, Canada. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (February 6, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419684418
• ISBN-13: 978-1419684418
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 7.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,119,100 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars disappointed, December 21, 2009

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Inger L. Genest "herbsoapmetalgirl" (vantucky, wa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cosmetics Cookbook: Over 50 recipes to beautify your face, hair, and entire body you can whip up at home for practically pennies! (Paperback)

I have been making cosmetics for over 10 years, have a diploma in herbal medicine & aromatherapy...thought this book would be a great addition to my cosmetic cookbook collection. It was not. If you are a beginner & when I say beginner, I mean you have never made anything cosmetic in your kitchen before, this may be a good book for you. If you have made cosmetics in the past and don't know much about formulation, then check this book out from the library before purchasing. The recipes call for ingredients like mineral oil and petroleum jelly (NASTY ingredients to use on your face & body--these are both by-products of the petroleum industry, are not good for you, create a greasy layer on top of the skin, do not penetrate &/or heal anything), clearly the author does not realize what she is instructing people to use on their bodies. I generally do not leave bad reviews of any book, I try to find a little nugget of valuable information in the book prior to writing a review, but I have not been able to find a thing that justifies a good or at least ambivalent review of this book.

12 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book thats a must for every home!!!, November 22, 2001

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An Avid Reader (Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cosmetics Cookbook (Spiral-bound)

Excellent! The only word to describe it. The book is very well presented and also well written. A MUST for every home with such simple and easy to prepare recipies. I would recommend this book to everyone and really worth its price in gold!

3.0 out of 5 stars A Little Too Simple, June 14, 2011

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HDSpringerLady (Missouri) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Cosmetics Cookbook: Over 50 recipes to beautify your face, hair, and entire body you can whip up at home for practically pennies! (Paperback)

This book is very simple and easy to read. The instructions and recipe items are basically all from your kitchen. My only problem is that some of the recipes are almost too simple; almost like they were just taken from the sky and they seem to be all from "granny". I haven't tried any of them but I can see how some of them would work considering what I already know.