Natural Homemade Beauty: 90 Recipes for Skin, Hair and Home
Leoniek Bontje
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!
Darryl Cheng is the author of The New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family (2019), which has sold more than 85,000 copies. He is the creator of House Plant Journal, the leading source for advice about growing house plants on Instagram, with 630,000 followers. His technique, based on an understanding of the conditions different plants need to thrive, has helped thousands of home gardeners achieve satisfying results. He lives in Toronto.
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