Natural Bodycare: Creating Aromatherapy Cosmetics for Health & Beauty [Hardcover]

William B. Dewey (Author), Julia Meadows (Author, Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1998

Create the most natural, gentle, and fragrant bodycare products ever--using this beautifully photographed aromatherapy recipe book for the body. With these original ideas on essential and carrier oils, herbals, and other all-natural ingredients, you'll soon luxuriate in baths filled with citrus almond sachets, and enjoy intensive botanical hair masks, sparkling citrus facial toner, and lavender and sage purifying clay body masks. Includes dozens of tips on solving special skin and haircare problems, and therapeutic techniques that remove stress. You'll feel marvelous from head to toe! 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.

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About the Author

Plants, herbs and natural remedies have fascinated Julia Meadows since childhood. She has made it her life's work to create safe and effective natural cosmetics and currently manufactures and retails aromatherapy products for her own company, Essential Aromatics.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc (August 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806942452
• ISBN-13: 978-0806942452
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,011,181 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good recipes but lacks essential information, November 10, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Natural Bodycare: Creating Aromatherapy Cosmetics for Health & Beauty (Hardcover)

Overall, I consider this a good book with easy to follow recipes. However, I feel that she didn't include all the information that she should have.

She uses essential oils in many of the recipes, but she never mentions any safety data. For instance, she includes many citrus oils without mentioning that they are phototoxic.

She gives a brief description of each of the ingredients that she uses throughout the book. However, although she uses a number of different emulsifiers, she doesn't bother to explain why one may be better than another in a specific recipe, or how to substitute one emulsifier for another in a recipe. Since some of the ingredients are hard to find, this would be nice to know. In addition, one emulsifier she uses is an alpha hydroxy acid which she includes in most of her lotion and cream recipes. I choose not to use alpha hydroxy acids and would love to know how to make the recipes without that ingredient.

There are not as many recipes in this book as it first appears. Many recipes are, "take the basic recipe from chapter 3 and add the following essential oils..."

While I'm glad I bought this book, I do feel that it's going to take some additional research and experimentation before I'm able to use the recipes for my own personal use.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of its type., March 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Natural Bodycare: Creating Aromatherapy Cosmetics for Health & Beauty (Hardcover)

A gorgeous book written by a dedicated professional. Although some of the luxury-class packaging shown is unaffordable for most people, the products themselves are impeccable. They're neither inexpensive nor quickie/craft-style projects. If you want to make high-end natural skincare items, this book is essential.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent book, April 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Natural Bodycare: Creating Aromatherapy Cosmetics for Health & Beauty (Hardcover)

I was lucky enough to obtain a copy of this beautiful book. Having always been interested in aromatherapy, I was pleased to see so many wonderful recipes for using the oils that I have come to love. The layout of the book is beautiful with great photos and easy to follow directions and recipes. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in making natural cosmetics and just generally wanting to make their environments more healthful.