The first authoritative book on organic beauty practices. Includes organic beauty regimens for skin, hair, nails, hands, feet, eyes, teeth and more; Tips and techniques for using aromatherapy, vitamin and herbal therapies, nutrition, massage and natural cosmetics to enhance beauty. Introduction to spiritual practices for organic beauty, including meditation, prayer, creative visualisation, positive affirmation and yoga. Beginning with chapters on living organically and the spirit of organic beauty, Radiant Beauty offers readers a broader view of the meaning of beauty including spirituality, diet, sensuality, intellectual curiosity and sexuality. Building on this foundation for achieving inner beauty, the author, Mary Beth Janssen moves toward outer beauty with simple care routines for skin, hair, hands and feet, and the senses and providing organic recipes for specific hair and skin treatments, as well as detailed techniques for different routines, such as washing hair, meditating, and massage. Also included are safety charts for herb and essential oil use, and a list of resources and recommended readings. Radiant Beauty offers tips on enhancing one's sexual desire and holistic ways to cope with menstruation, PMS and menopause.
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Radiant Beauty covers beauty in a refreshing new light by looking at the topic the organic way - as a whole and from the inside out. Author Mary Beth Janssen has created a guide for achieving total body well-being - not just looking good on the outside, but feeling a renewed sense of mind and soul as well. So what you won't find within these pages is advice for applying blush or creating the latest hairstyle. What you will find is advice on achieving beauty through spirituality, sensuality, and living organically in addition to care routines for your skin, hair, hands, feet - and even your senses - using natural and organic products.
Mary Beth starts you on your journey toward radiant beauty with tips for releasing negative energy. She then promotes awareness of and connection with your spirit by guiding you through specific mediation, yoga, and breathing techniques. But that's just the first part of the process. After this inner renewal, you'll discover secrets to enhancing your outer beauty, including how to:
* cleanse your skin without damaging it
* make a natural face mask with cucumber and organic milk
* mater the technique for Ayurvedic massage
* condition dry hair with a blend of avocado and jojoba oil
* use gingerroot tea to control dandruff
* soothe your feet with a scrub of sea salt and sweet almond oil
* perform hand yoga
* relieve irritated eyes with a calendula tea compress
* choose and use essential oils for aromatherapy
* make your own bacteria-fighting toothpaste Mary Beth rounds out her advice with a chapter on sexuality, including suggestions for enhancing sexual desire and improving sexual and reproductive health. You'll also learn how aromatherapy can help to east the symptoms of PMS and what foods alleviate symptoms that come with hormaonal changes experience during menopause.
Radiant Beauty offers practical tips and techniques for your mind, body, and soul, which, combined with Mary Beth's inspirational writing, are sure to help you define your own sense of beauty - and revel in the essence of it.
About the Author
Mary Beth Janssen is a certified Mind-Body Health Educator for Deepak Chopra's educational organization Infinite Possibilities Knowledge. Her company, the Janssen Source, Inc., serves as a wellness and organic lifestyle consultant to the beauty profession and the community at large. Mary Beth is a member of many organizations, including the Organic Trade Association, the Wellness Councils of America, the Women in Beauty Organization, and the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy. She is a recipient of the prestigious Rocco Bellino Award for outstanding contributions in education in the beauty profession. Mary Beth lives in Illinois.
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Mary Beth's company, The Janssen Source offers highly experiential mindbody healing seminars, workshops, retreats. She speaks at prestigious events worldwide--and has shared the same stage with the likes of Dr. Mehmet Oz, Bob Greene, and Suze Orman, amongst others.
Personally certified by Deepak Chopra, M.D. as a MindBody Health educator for The Chopra Center for Well-Being, she's also a certified massage therapist, aromatherapist, herbalist, master gardener and registered yoga teacher(through the Yoga Alliance). She writes and is a beauty/wellness resource for several media outlets. She has a regular column "ask the organic beauty expert," with Organic Spa Magazine (www.organicspamagazine.com).
A widely recognized organic beauty/lifestyle expert, Mary Beth's been intimately involved in the development and launch of several organic beauty/wellness companies. As writer and educator, she speaks to organic, sustainable living in all its many facets~physical, environmental, spiritual.
Connect with Mary Beth at:
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mary-Beth-Janssen/578301247
http://www.linkedin.com/in/marybethjanssen
http://twitter.com/cosmicdenmother
Just a few of the many endorsements Mary Beth has received:
"A passionate look at appreciating and enhancing inner and outer beauty. Mary Beth's insight into integrating beauty and wellness is unique and refreshing, and her nurturing rituals and practices will help you rejuvenate your mind, body, and soul. ~Deepak Chopra, M.D. about Radiant Beauty: Your Healthy and Organic Guide to Total Body Well-Being.
"Mary Beth Janssen is always a wonderful read, enlightening you to a much fuller and healthier lifestyle. ~Vidal Sassoon about Body of Knowledge: a Beauty and Wellness Professionals Guide to Self Care
Naturally Healthy Hair is chock full of practical and uplifting information to help all of us achieve more "good hair" days. I highly recommend Mary Beth's holistic and skilled approach. ~Christiane Northrup, M.D., about Naturally Healthy Hair: Herbal Treatments and Daily Care for Fabulous Hair
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The book has very good information about taking care of your skin. I love to read it I learn something new everytime I read the book. It has healthy stuff to do for your skin I started reading the book and going but what it say. And my skin is alot healther.
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Beautifully illustrated, artfully designed and filled with useful, delightful advice, information and tools, this book printed in 2001, by the now defunct Rodale Organic Style Magazine book division, written by Mary Beth Janssen who quotes Rodin in the introduction, she takes the reader on a journey to her inner and outer beauty. A passionate appreciation and teaching of all things beautiful and organic, this book is inspirational, simple and accessible while it offers the the reader new vistas on what it means to be beautiful and how thoroughly intertwined beauty and total wellness truly are. She covers every aspect of a woman's being including chapters entitled "organic sexuality" "the spirit of organic beauty" along with very practical beauty recipes, "organic beauty for the senses" and so much more. If you can actually find this book, you might want to buy it.Radiant Beauty: Your Healthy and Organic Guide to Total Body Well-Being (A Rodale organic style book)
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The book came in perfect condition and in a timely manner. I would definitely order again. M. D. from California
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