Natural Homemade Beauty
Batsford Books
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!