Choosing Botanicals, Oils & Extracts for Simple & Health Beauty
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Hélène Berton’s The Essential Guide to Natural Skin Care reveals the wondrous qualities and uses of botanicals in homemade beauty products, making it easy to customize your own lotions, creams, body butters, ointments and more.
Choose from eco-friendly vegetable oils and butters, infused and essential oils, aromatic hydrosols and emulsifiers. Discover the beauty and healing properties of each, and their practical traits, such as shelf life and absorption. You’ll find ingredients that soften, tone and hydrate skin and hair; fade scars; stave off wrinkles; heal acne; treat dandruff; fight infection and fungus and repel insects.
This compact reference also has basic recipes that can be easily modified to your unique skin type.
Softcover Book : 240 pages
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications ( April 01, 2012 )
Item #: 13-583150
ISBN: 978-0-7387-29
Product Dimensions: 5.25 x 8.0 inches
Product Weight: 7.0 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Great on info about why you should choose homemade but not much help on how to do it if you are not a professional. Also the FEW recipes are not very helpful.
Reviewer: Sandy