Product Description: Radiantly healthy skin, hair, feet, hands, eyes, and nails. Commercial beauty products make this promise every day and live up to it with varying degrees of success. Stephanie Tourles offers a better solution to everyone frustrated with the endless cycle of expensive, synthetic, famous-name cosmetics that often fall short of expectations. Take control of beauty treatments with homemade products that use safe, nourishing ingredients to pamper the body and soothe the senses.
Tourles, a licensed esthetician, herbalist, and aromatherapist, has developed 175 recipes that are fun, simple, and immensely satisfying to make in home kitchens. Her natural beauty treatments deliver the results promised by department store brands — skin, hair, and nails that glow with vitality and inner wellness. Lotions, scrubs, toners, balms, and masks polish and balance the skin, soothe current problems, and prevent future ones. Shampoos, rinses, and conditioners tone the scalp, boost highlights, and leave hair soft and shiny. The book's whole-body coverage also includes recipes for hand and footcare, nail treatments, shaving cream, and even popular spa treatments such as microdermabrasion exfoliants, detox and cellulite soaks, ayurvedic oils, and herbal cold salves. Most important, there is never any doubt about the purity of these ingredients!
Each formula is clearly presented in recipe style, with notes on prep time, storage, and uses. Many products can be customized according to personal needs, whim, or mood, and they all use readily available, natural ingredients. Organic Body Care Recipes is a natural treasure for every body.
Yummy and Easy Recipes After reading Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet, I decided to delve into the world of homemade body care products.
Organic Body Care Recipes, by Stephanie Tourles, is fantastic! Making my own body care products feels so gratifying...like cooking a delicious meal. Ordering ingredients and containers is easy, thanks to the internet.
I like the format of the book and the easy to understand directions to make products.
I've even been playing around with labels for the containers. The holidays will be a snap this year, as I intend to make body care products for all my friends and family.
Love this book! You will too. If you're serious about throwing out your store bought, chemical filled cosmetics or even thinking about it, then you MUST get this book! I bought this book about 6 wks ago, kept reading a few pages here and there, started ordering ingredients, then finally about 2 wks ago started making one or two items in my kitchen. I've since made about a dozen skin care recipes from Organic Body Care Recipes. My bathroom/kitchen/shower area smells wonderful. My skin looks, smells and feels great. I love storing them in glass bottles/containers I can pick up at Big Lots or even Walmart and reuse again & again. Normally, I stay away from Walmart but their glass oil bottles, glass sugar bowls w/lids, and sealed storage containers are PERFECT & cheap. As well as reusing my own class containers and jars at home. Ikea is another good place to go. Ms Tourles list places where you can find these organic ingredients online but I found other sites even more reasonably priced and you can order smaller quantities on the internet. I've loved everything I've made from this book, & you learn about ingredients, their properties (and what you can sub for if you are allergic or dislike any ingredient) so you truly can make exactly what you want. For me, this was one more step in reducing waste and pollution in the world besides saving money. MY Warnings: After making one or two items I was hooked. I then spent about $300 on ingredients. I went all out on base oils, clays, many essential oils, dried herbs (not avail in my grocery store) & even flavorings for my lip balms but it was well worth. These will last all year long, will supply my family of three and I can make gifts at the holidays for my friends and family. They tried some small samples I've made and are already putting in their orders. Get this book, spend a week or two reading it at your leisure, find a product or two on your shelf you want to replace...and do it. You'll feel great and become addicted like I am. Another book suggestion, Gorgeously Green by Sophie Uliano, this book gives a great all around approach to doing your part for our earth. Again, just try one or two things...slowly you'll be hooked.
HEAVENLY RECIPES THESE RECIPES EXCITE ME SO MUCH. I AM ALREADY PICKING OUT MY OILS TO START MAKING SOME OF THESE DELICIOUS BODY BUTTERS AND HAIR PRODUCTS. THIS BOOK HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERY PART OF THE BODY AND THE RECIPES ARE SO EASY TO FOLLOW.
Title should be changed to organic and near organic recipes Bought this book to use as a reference for myself and to share with my customers. Honestly I skimmed thru the recipes and I frowned to see that talc is used, an ingredient whose chemical composition is simliar to asbesto and its a known cancer causing agent. A 1982 study showed that woman who used talc had a higher risk of ovarian cancer. Thats just one ingredient I saw. Like I said I skimmed. I saw that she did use a comercial type of non-petroleum jelly. I truly think most beginners would probably reach for the petroleum jelly. I'm just suprised she didn't offer a recipe in the book for the non-petroleum jelly which is so easy to make. A recipe I found posted by Annie B. Bond, calls for 2 ounces olive oil, 1/2 ounce grated beeswax, 12 drops grapefruit seed extract. The recipes seem easy to follow and the book looks like an easy read. I'm just not happy about the talc.
a great reference I found this book quite accessible and the layout suited the subject matter well. New to making beauty products, I was delighted to find that most ingredients can be acquired at my local natural wellness store. The directions were straightforward and easy to follow. I find myself referring back to this book quite often. The only reason I gave it 4 stars was because it lacked a section for your own creations. I think it would be a handy aspect to this great book so you can keep all of your beauty recipes in one location - it would be great for cross-referencing, too.
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