Organic Beauty: An Illustrated Guide to Making Your Own Skincare

by Maru Godas

Overview

A beautifully illustrated guide to living organically.

Cottage-core, wellness, and sustainability collide with this playful, illustrated guide to organic skincare.

Learn what plants to use, how to collect and prepare them, and create your own masks, scrubs, balms, butter, hair lotions, and much more with detailed step-by-step instructions.

From helping you to decipher those complicated product labels and showing you how to make cosmetics from the plants in your own backyard, to how to use natural ingredients to help you care for your body, Organic Beauty is full of tips for building a healthy, natural lifestyle that fosters beauty from the inside out.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781922754783
Publisher:	Rizzoli
Publication date:	09/05/2023
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,119,177
Product dimensions:	8.85(w) x 10.92(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Maru Godas is extremely passionate about illustration, painting, and urban sketching and has worked for over eighteen years as a designer and illustrator across a number of international publishers. Based in Barcelona, Godas combines her creative activities with workshops and trips where she teaches and practices urban sketching. Organic Beauty is her fourth book.

Editorial Reviews

08/07/2023

Illustrator Godas debuts with an fun manual on preparing organic skin-care products at home. An “illustrated herbarium” details the cosmetic properties of various plants, noting, for instance, that marigolds reduce inflammation, lavender relieves acne, and nettle helps prevent hair loss. Godas recommends harvesting plants just before they flower, because that’s “when the plants are full of active ingredients,” and then hanging them upside down to dry and storing them in airtight glass jars. Describing how to make plant-based balms, exfoliants, face masks, lotions, shampoos, and soap, she shows how to mix a mashed potato and yogurt to make a face mask for reducing puffiness, and how to whip up dry shampoo by whisking together cornstarch, rice flour, baking soda, and lavender essential oil. Most of the projects are simple to follow (creating spray deodorant merely entails mixing witch hazel, apple cider vinegar, and lemon essential oil in a bottle), but Godas provides step-by-step illustrations for more complex endeavors, such as making castile soap by adding caustic soda to water, blending the solution with heated olive oil, and leaving the results to harden for a month. The colorful, cartoon-like depictions of the plants and projects are a treat, and the mostly straightforward processes promise easy results. It’s a wonderful guide to going natural with one’s beauty care routine. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly