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| Organic Body Care Recipes | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephanie Tourles
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 5223
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 7.9 x 1
ISBN: 1580176763
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.488
EAN: 9781580176767
ASIN: 1580176763
Publication Date: May 30, 2007
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Product Description
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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 Simply Awesome! August 15, 2007
72 out of 72 found this review helpful
I LOVE this book!! Not only are there tons of cosmetic concoctions (ranging from creamy body butters & lotions to herbal hair conditioners & foot soaks), but there are also thorough descriptions of different hair & skin types that each recipe will benefit. It even has a section on edible body potions that you may want to try on your "honey" (think sensual love-making). The best part is that each recipe gives you just enough to yield about 1 to 2 applications. That way, you can decide which ones you like and which ones you don't before you make large batches of it. All the ingredients are easy to find (there is an appendix on where to buy / order) and the author even gives us a comprehensive list of the different properties of herbs, oils, essential oils, etc. that you can use in these recipes. I've made & tried three so far (coconut body butter, rosemary hair rinse, & orange sugar scrub) and have found each one to be great. I can't wait to experiment with the rest of them!
If you are torn between 2 books on this subject - get this one! November 25, 2007
39 out of 39 found this review helpful
This book is absolutely awesome. The recipes are simple (and great at that!), she gives a lot of background info on each of the ingredients. Being a licensed cosmetologist myself, I can tell you that she really knows her stuff (she is a licensed esthetician). I have been making my own bath and body products for a few years (using pre-made bases from suppliers) but just decided to introduce a completely organic line of products and I think this is the best book that I have read so far on the subject and highly recommend it. Great for beginners or those who have been doing this a while.
Yummy and Easy Recipes June 25, 2008
31 out of 32 found this review helpful
After reading Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet, I decided to delve into the world of homemade body care products.
Organic Body Care Recipes, by Stephanie Tourles, is fantastic! Making my own body care products feels so gratifying...like cooking a delicious meal. Ordering ingredients and containers is easy, thanks to the internet.
I like the format of the book and the easy to understand directions to make products.
I've even been playing around with labels for the containers. The holidays will be a snap this year, as I intend to make body care products for all my friends and family.
Wonderful recipes! November 29, 2007
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
This book provides alot of information for beginners - details about the uses and benefits of a long list of essential oils and carrier oils. It walks you through step by step and makes the process enjoyable and educational! I have already begun using some of the recipes with items I purchased at my local health food store and seeing the positive results!!
 Title should be changed to organic and near organic recipes June 19, 2008
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
Bought this book to use as a reference for myself and to share with my customers. Honestly I skimmed thru the recipes and I frowned to see that talc is used, an ingredient whose chemical composition is simliar to asbesto and its a known cancer causing agent. A 1982 study showed that woman who used talc had a higher risk of ovarian cancer. Thats just one ingredient I saw. Like I said I skimmed. I saw that she did use a comercial type of non-petroleum jelly. I truly think most beginners would probably reach for the petroleum jelly. I'm just suprised she didn't offer a recipe in the book for the non-petroleum jelly which is so easy to make. A recipe I found posted by Annie B. Bond, calls for 2 ounces olive oil, 1/2 ounce grated beeswax, 12 drops grapefruit seed extract.
The recipes seem easy to follow and the book looks like an easy read. I'm just not happy about the talc.
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