Natural Homemade Beauty
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Natural Homemade Beauty
Natural Homemade Beauty
Natural Homemade BeautyΒ is an illustrated practical guide to creating your own cosmetics and beauty products from natural materials, some of which you can forage or grow yourself.
A beautifully designed practical guide to creating luxurious, safe and effective beauty products using ingredients from nature.
In this charming book, you'll discover how to prepare a huge range of products using plants, some 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
- Shampoo with camomile for glossy hair
- Body scrub with sugar and honey
- Ginger oil to treat breakouts
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 making process so you can't go wrong, and there are handy visual guides to the plants you'll be using, accompanied by ravishing photography. Armed with Natural Homemade Beauty, you'll be able to create a whole beauty counter of products, both for yourself and for gifting, and you'll save money too!
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781849948760
Publisher: Batsford
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 14 March 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Batsford
Illustration: Over 100 colour photographs
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 27.0mm
Width: 150.0mm
Height: 200.0mm
Weight: 283g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Leoniek Bontje is a herbalist and wild forager who is passionate about sharing her extensive knowledge of plants and their uses. She is the author of three books on foraging for plants, using plants for medicine, and drying and storing plant material, and runs a successful series of workshops on foraging and medicinal plants. She lives in The Netherlands.
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