Natural Homemade Beauty
Batsford (Verlag)
978-1-84994-876-0 (ISBN)
A beautifully designed instructive guide to creating luxurious, safe and effective beauty products using ingredients from nature.
In this charming book you'll discover how to prepare an abundant range of products using plants and flowers, many of which you'll be able to find around you or grow yourself. It includes comprehensive, easy-to-follow recipes for:
Rich moisturising cream with daisy extract
Camomile based shampoo for glossy hair
Sugar and honey body scrub
Ginger oil for blemish control
You will find a wealth of other delights such as body butter, hair conditioner, lip balm, deodorant, bath oil and even toothpaste. Also included is a selection of fragrance products for your home, such as a lavender and pine room spray made with vodka.
Each easy-to-follow recipe gives a complete description of the product-making process so you can't go wrong. There are handy visual guides to the plants you'll be using, accompanied by ravishing photography. Armed with this book you'll be able to create a whole beauty counter of products, both for yourself and for gifting, and you'll save money too!
Leoniek Bontje spent 4 years training to become a herbalist following the publication of her first book, Foraging. She has since authored books on using plants as medicine, creating a herbarium, and using plants for cosmetics. She currently works as a herbalist, teaches workshops, writes books about herbalism and offers advice on how to create edible and medicinal gardens. She lives in The Netherlands.
The benefits of making your own beauty products
Plants for your skin
Natural basic ingredients
Hydolates
Other basic ingredients
Using food as beauty products
Looking after your face
Masks
Nourishing masks
Scrubs
Looking after your eyes
Looking after your lips
Looking after your mouth
Looking after your hair
Hair conditioners
Hair masks
Looking after your body
Deodorant
Looking after your hands
Looking after your feet
Erscheinungsdatum | 05.03.2024 |
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Zusatzinfo | Over 100 colour photographs |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 150 x 200 mm |
Gewicht | 283 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schönheit / Kosmetik |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
ISBN-10 | 1-84994-876-3 / 1849948763 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84994-876-0 / 9781849948760 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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