Natural Beauty Recipe Book: How to Make Your Own Organic Cosmetics and Beauty Products [Paperback]

Gill Farrer-Halls (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2006

Over 60 recipes for natural beauty organic makeup made easy.

Natural and organic are the buzz words in cosmetics. Even for over-the-counter products, everyone from Gwyneth Paltrow to Jack Nicholson is going organic when it comes to beauty. This beautiful book shows you how to make your own handcrafted, organic makeup, soap, and perfume using essential oils and other natural ingredients. Lush, Origins, the Body Shop, Kiehl's, and Neal's Yard are all packed with customers eager to find the next organic facial mask, rejuvenating skin cream, deodorant, or body lotion. With this book, you can personalize your beauty regimen without standing in line and without spending tons of money. The Natural Beauty Recipe Book features a range of recipes for quick-and-easy daily products you can make at home: face cleansers, eye cleansers, toners, moisturizing creams and gels, cold cream cleanser, hand cream, body lotion, lip balm, face masks, rejuvenating treatments, liquid shampoos, hair bars, conditioners, rinses, hair nourishing treatments, deodorants, mouthwashes, aftershaves, eye baths, soaps and scents.

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About the Author

Gill Farrer-Halls is the author of several books. She frequently teaches aromatherapy for Neal's Yard Remedies in Tokyo, Japan, and at the Lotte Rose School of Aromatherapy in London. Drawing on nearly 20 years experience of Buddhist meditation, professional writing, and aromatherapy practice, she gives talks and workshops on writing, meditation, and aromatherapy. She lives in Oxford, England.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Quarry Books (September 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592532985
• ISBN-13: 978-1592532988
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #99,192 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gill Farrer-Halls is a practicing Buddhist who has spent time studying in India and Nepal during her career. She has published several Buddhism-related books as well as those focused on alternative therapies. Besides writing, Gill is a producer for London's Meridian Trust Buddhist Film and Video Archive, and she teaches aromatherapy, meditation, and spiritual-awareness workshops. Artist and writer Robert Beer is well-known for his colorful and detailed illustrations. He has studied and practiced Tibetan art for more than 30 years. His works appear in several hundred books on Tibetan Buddhist art and religion.

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money, it's not a real skin care recipe book., February 12, 2009

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Renaissance Woman "Renaissance Woman" (Oregon City, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Natural Beauty Recipe Book: How to Make Your Own Organic Cosmetics and Beauty Products (Paperback)

This book is clearly a marketing aid for the small number of suppliers listed in the Appendix. It is not a skin care recipe book. It's full of pretty pictures, but all it does is tell you what essential oil to mix in a ready made base - all of which you have to buy. It does not show you how to make any products in the sense that you have control over what goes in it. This book is ALSO a carbon-copy of another exact same book by the same publisher "Soap and Scent: Recipes for Natural Beauty" (they got me twice!) Clearly this is a marketing aid for the suppliers. Don't waste your money. You can find WAY more (and free) detailed recipes and information about hand-made natural beauty products.

44 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I was looking for, June 16, 2007

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This review is from: Natural Beauty Recipe Book: How to Make Your Own Organic Cosmetics and Beauty Products (Paperback)

I was disappointed with this book because I was looking for a recipes that you could make from various fruits / veges etc. However this entire book consists of mixing together pre bought items such as essential oils and creams such as shampoo or lotion bases. Basically this book tells you to buy a whole bunch of stuff and how to mix it together.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Natural Beauty Recipes, March 15, 2009

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C. Hickman (Canby, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Natural Beauty Recipe Book: How to Make Your Own Organic Cosmetics and Beauty Products (Paperback)

I found this book to be rather helpful for making organic beauty products especially bar soaps. If you are looking for a how to book with a large selection of wonderful choices of soap options, this one is fabulous. It has lots of photos and is very detailed. I was hoping for more options with face scrubs and body butters. If you want more than 1 or 2, this is not the book for you.