GREEN BEAUTY RECIPES: Easy Homemade Recipes to Make Your Own Organic and Natural Skincare, Hair Care and Body Care Products [Paperback]

Julie Gabriel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2010

Learn insider secrets to making your own organic and natural skincare, hair care, and spa products. You will learn which vegetable oils, herbs, floral waters, essential oils, plant-based emulsifiers, and natural preservatives to use, how to pack and label your own beauty products, and how to store them safely. The book contains more than 250 recipes and step-by-step techniques used by the author, holistic nutritionist Julie Gabriel (THE GREEN BEAUTY GUIDE) to create her own organic skincare line, Petite Marie Organics. Free of artificial ingredients and based on traditional beauty wisdom, recipes and advice in this book are easy to follow and cost very little to prepare. Practical, straightforward, and fun, these recipes are equally suitable for green beauty enthusiasts as well as professional beauty practitioners. After reading this book, you will be able to create your own creams, lotions, cleansers, toners, masks, hair treatments, sun protection and baby care products. Facial cleansers, moisturizers, anti aging serums, sun protection lotions, hair treatments, and even deodorants can be prepared easily at home using only natural, easily available ingredients. In just minutes, you will be able to prepare a green, organic beauty product at a fraction of a cost of conventional chemical brew. You can pamper yourself head to toe with luxurious hair masks, deep cleansing home facials, aromatic massage oils, nourishing body lotions, and age-rewinding moisturizers in the most natural, luxuriously green way!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Green Beauty Recipes" is a timely book since many of us are "going green." We no longer want to use harmful chemicals or accept using animals for testing products. Using products that can be found in our own home, with the addition of essential oils or natural preservatives, will not only nourish our body, but help keep our planet clean. I commend Julie Gabriel on making this book available to us and I encourage everyone to consider having "Green Beauty." --Irene Watson, Reader Views, September 2010

"Green Beauty Recipes" is a timely book since many of us are "going green." We no longer want to use harmful chemicals or accept using animals for testing products. Using products that can be found in our own home, with the addition of essential oils or natural preservatives, will not only nourish our body, but help keep our planet clean. I commend Julie Gabriel on making this book available to us and I encourage everyone to consider having "Green Beauty." --Irene Watson, Reader Views, September 2010

Green Beauty Recipes is the second book by author Julie Gabriel. An extension of her first book, The Green Beauty Guide, Green Beauty Recipes is an indispensable collection of not only recipes, but also instructions, explanations and helpful hints for creating your own collection of skin care, hair care and body care products. Julie gives everyone the confidence to get in the kitchen and create their own beauty! Perfect as a gift for just about any woman.

We love this book and read every word cover to cover. How we wish it had images of some of the finished recipes, however. It's fun to create products and get that feeling of accomplishment that goes along with it. It's a book that won't hide on our bookshelf because we'll be too busy finding recipes that work best with our skin. It has a top spot on our holiday gift list this year. --Jen Adkins, About.com: Skincare, October 2010

About the Author

Julie Gabriel is a holistic nutritionist and an organic beauty expert. As a former magazine beauty editor, Julie has worked with WWD, Harper's Bazaar, L'Officiel De La Mode et De La Couture, and Atmospheres. She has also worked on Fashion Television and CNN (Style with Elsa Klensch). When Julie became pregnant with her daughter, she embraced green, organic living and studied as a Holistic Nutritionist in Canadian School of Natural Nutrition in Toronto.

In 2008 Julie has written THE GREEN BEAUTY GUIDE: Your Essential Resource to Organic and Natural Skincare, Hair Care, Makeup and Fragrances (HCI 2008). This book became the first comprehensive guide into organic and natural beauty products. The book and Julie's own organic skincare line were featured in Elle, USA Today, Natural Living, Real Simple, Natural Home, Body+Soul, Organic Beauty, Plenty, About.com, Chopra.com, and on Martha Stewart Living Radio, among others.

Product Details

• Paperback: 268 pages
• Publisher: Petite Marie Ltd (November 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0956355811
• ISBN-13: 978-0956355812
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #18 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Beauty & Fashion

More About the Author

Julie Gabriel is a holistic nutritionist, the author, and the founder of Petite Marie Organics (www.petitemarieorganics.com) natural skincare range for acne-prone, problem and sensitive skin.

Julie's fascination with beauty began nearly twenty years ago. As a beauty writer and editor she worked at such amazing publications as Harper's Bazaar, L'Officiel de la Mode et de la Couture, Atmospheres, WWD, and many more - including Style with Elsa Klensch (CNN) in the early 1990s.

When Julie's daughter was born, Gabriel has trained as a holistic nutritionist at Canadian School for Natural Nutrition. "I believe that cosmetic products are food for our skin, and if you take great care to eat healthy, wholesome foods, you must treat your skin and hair with the same respect," says Julie.