Modern & Healthy Body Care: Recipes for Professional, Natural Skin and Hair Care Products [Paperback]

Karin Bombeli (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 114 pages
• Publisher: Somerset Co (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965852806
• ISBN-13: 978-0965852807
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,591,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointing, October 5, 1999

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D. Gunderson (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Modern & Healthy Body Care: Recipes for Professional, Natural Skin and Hair Care Products (Paperback)

First of all, this book is only 96 pages of very large print long, and half of that is full-page, glossy photos that are pretty, but don't impart any information. The basic information is worthwhile, but it can all be found on the internet for free. To top it off, the suppliers of chemicals listed in this book are all companies who only supply Revlon or MaxFactor, not you and me; they have "10 drum" minimum orders and so on, making it impossible for the average person to actually purchase the necessary ingredients. The only exception is The Somerset Company, but they don't have everything and never, ever answer the phone. An excercise in frustration and disappointment.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars South African perspective, September 26, 2001

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Bernadine Martin (Cape Town South Africa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Modern & Healthy Body Care: Recipes for Professional, Natural Skin and Hair Care Products (Paperback)

After almost a year's intense research and purchasing a number of cosmetic and soapmaking books, I have very high praise for this one!

This book allows a person to make TRULY natural cosmetics, that can even be resold- ie. start a small company.

The book uses brand new chemicals that are naturally formulated eg. sorbitan cocoate etc.

However, the hobbiest might struggle with small amounts of ingredients and finding the chemicals can be a monumental task. Even trying to find these ingredients while visiting the UK was impossible. It seems the USA is already in full swing with these new ingredients. Other companies around the world are still using synthetic ingredients it seems, either due to price or inability to source outside the US or Canada....

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not alot of info here, April 25, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Modern & Healthy Body Care: Recipes for Professional, Natural Skin and Hair Care Products (Paperback)

This short book provides just the bare basics of making your own body products such as toners and lotions. Unfortunately, there aren't alot of recipes here. The recipes are basic and unremarkable. Besides that, the some of the photos have nothing to do with making your own skin care products. A photo of a woman tossing her hair back? A woman shampooing her hair? I wouldn't have a problem with photos like this usually but since they each take up whole pages of glossy photo pages, it makes me wonder why this book costs as much as it does for being under 100 pages long...From what I can tell, this book is apparently a joint venture between the author and Somerset Co...I just ignore the brand and focus on the instruction. Unfortunately, there is not alot of instruction to speak of here. The author does not provide any credentials, even though she states in her bio that she has been a nurse, and she does not list the colleges she apparently graduated from...luckily, I bought this from Amazon.com Marketplace so I didn't pay much. Don't buy this new. Get it used or rent it from the library.