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How to Make Your Own Organic Cosmetics: Face Masks, Hair Rinses & Body Lotions: Recipes for Natural Beauty

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The recipes assume you are starting with a basic lotion, shampoo or conditioner base. There are no recipes for these bases. Starting from a commercial base takes all of the fun out. There are many other books available that include the basic base recipes as well as the suggested additives. Try "Making Aromatherapy Creams & Lotions" by Donna Maria if you want some serious recipes.

This book provides a nice introduction to organic cosmetics that you can easily prepare at home. It starts out by explaining all the reasons why home-made cosmetics are much healthier for you and how your skin benefits from natural ingredients only.
The book contains many beautiful pictures and the recipes are well written so they are easy to follow.With each recipe there is an explaination about the specific benefits for using it.
The only flaw that I found though is the list of the cosmetic product suppliers. First of all there aren't any websites, which I believe in this day and age is an absolute must. And when I tried to research the companies over the internet I couldn't find any of them. So that left me with the question where in the world I could get a "cream or lotion base" from, which is something many of the recipes call for.
But over all it is a very nice book!Reading it makes you want to jump right into mixing your own cosmetic line.

I bought this book hoping to learn how to make basic skin care products, only to discover that the vast majority of recipes call for a "lotion base" or the like. The book does not give instructions on how to make a "lotion base" and the list of suppliers was pretty grim.
She does seem to have a very keen sense of fragrance combination and the photos are fun but overall it did not provide much useful info about making skin-care products from scratch.

Found this book on amazon. Nice information on what goes into cosmetics. However, does not necessarily give information for from-scratch lotions. Did find a nice natural lotion base to use at this site:

http://www.sfsoaps.com/lotion.php

The title suggests from scratch but as everyone has said so far, lotion recipes suggest you do additives to a lotion base. Nice recipes though.

I bought the book hoping it would teach me how to make creams and lotions from scratch. But what it does is provide you with recipes on how to make your custom-blended product with ready made bases which you have to purchase. So it was not very useful to me.

The information on essential oils is basic and scarce. I feel the recipes could be more sophisticated and in greater number. This book contains mostly kitchen DIY recipes.

All in all a good book purely for beginners.