Organic Body Care Recipes: 175 Homeade Herbal Formulas for Glowing Skin & a Vibrant Self [NOOK Book]

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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 ...
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Organic Body Care Recipes: 175 Homeade Herbal Formulas for Glowing Skin & a Vibrant Self

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Overview

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.
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Editorial Reviews

Country Living
"Stephanie Tourles makes her do-it-yourself skin-care programs a complete educational experience."
Hutchinson Leader

“…an excellent reference book for those interested in “cooking up” their own products.”

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781603422130
  • Publisher: Storey Books
  • Publication date: 6/1/2007
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 87,377
  • File size: 6 MB

Meet the Author

Stephanie Tourles is a licensed holistic esthetician in both Massachusetts and Maine, with over 20 years experience. Trained in western-style herbalism, she specializes in the use of herbs as they pertain to skin, hair, nail, and foot care and regularly creates herbal cosmetics and treatments for her clients and friends. She is also a certified aromatherapist, with extensive training in the nutritional sciences, and is the author of several books on natural body care including The Herbal Body Book, Naturally Healthy Skin, and Natural Foot Care. Stephanie resides in Orland, Maine with her husband and pets, and spends her spare time hiking, organic gardening, and cooking.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 22, 2009

    I highly recommend this book

    I bought this book on a whim because I was interested in making body care recipes for the first time... It opened my eyes to how simple (and fun) this can be and now I can't seem to make enough! The book is well organized, easy to follow and full of great recipes. It includes overviews of all ingredients, a wide variety of recipes and guidelines on storage, shelf life, skin type, etc. In the past year I've replaced many of my store bought products with home made versions and given many as gifts to friends and family. Almost everything I've made has been met with great reviews, I am VERY happy with this book.

    5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 18, 2010

    I Also Recommend:

    Natural Beauty at Home, Revised Edition: More Than 200 Easy-to-Use Recipes for Body, Bath, and Hair

    organic diy must-have

    I first learned of this book last year while reading Amanda Soule's blog. I was intrigued by the many salves, lotions, and lip balms that she and her children made as gifts. Over the years I have been trying to eliminate chemicals from my home and now that I have children with allergies and sensative skin I have become more motivated to make big changes and this book has been my springboard. First,I found Organic Body Care Recipes at my local library and checked it out multiple times. I read and reread many recipes, marked several to try, and gathered supplies. All of the ingredients are natural, organic, and often already in your home. Some acquiring of essential oils may be necessary, but worth it. There are so many chapters with wonderful recipes and gift ideas. I highly recommend this book. Whether you want organic lotion and lip balm or a natural alternative for shampoo this book is for you.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 19, 2008

    Great!

    I absolutely loved this book. It was very informative. I especially liked the ingredient dictionary with the properties of the ingredients used and possible substitutions. All in all... very good book.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 22, 2013

    I've been using these recipes for a full month now. My search f

    I've been using these recipes for a full month now. My search for a book like this because I've struggled with sensitive skin and moderate acne for 29 years. I had gotten so frustrated with the irritation that results from trying to deal with these two difficult issues together. Finally this winter I'd had enough and began using the all natural, very simple recipes from this book. My skin feels amazing! It used to burn when I applied store-bought moisturizers and my skin was always blotchy and flaky. Now my skin is even toned, no longer has dry patches and sebum production seems to be regulated. I still use a little of the prescription medication for the acne but am tinkering with the essential oils that will hopefully soon replace the medication. I'm turing 40 soon and the fine lines that were beginning to appear around my eyes have plumped up. It's so wonderful to have comfortable skin after years of irritation and also so wonderful to wake up to skin that no longer glares back angrily from the mirror! Two of my kids are beginning to get pimples and now I can help them avoid that awful teenage phase of trying all the harsh drugstore acne products I tried as a teen. You'll love this book!

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  • Posted March 4, 2011

    weak regurgitated online info

    yawn

    1 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 10, 2013

    Great reference

    Love it! Very helpful to the person new to making their own creams/ lotions.

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