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Organic Body Care Recipes: 175 Homemade Herbal Formulas for Glowing Skin & a Vibrant Self Paperback – May 30, 2007

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Discover the joys of all-natural body care. Stephanie Tourles shows you how to use fruit, flowers, herbs, and minerals to craft healthy products that promote radiant skin, strong nails, shiny hair, and an elevated mood. Pamper yourself from head to toe with products like Strawberry Cleanser, Pineapple Sunflower Scrub, and Almond Rose Body Lotion. Gentle on your skin and free of harsh chemicals found in commercial products, you’ll want to indulge yourself over and over with these luxuriously aromatic bath blends, face masks, and body scrubs.

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From natural nontoxic cleaning solutions derived from essential oils to soothing skincare formulas infused with plant-based extracts, natural home and body products not only nurture our bodies but also honor our connection to the earth. Acclaimed authors including Stephanie Tourles and Daniella Chace offer accessible, easy-to-follow steps for creating an all-natural lifestyle and home.
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The Storey Publishing Herbal Wellness store offers a wide range of herbalism books, by renowned authors like Rosemary Gladstar, that share practical insights and knowledge about maintaining health and facilitating healing with the use of medicinal herbs.

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

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Nurture Your Natural Beauty

Discover the joy and fun of crafting your own personalized body care products using herbs and other natural ingredients that nourish, pamper, cleanse, and protect the skin without using irritating or harmful chemicals.
In just minutes, you can whip up dozens of organic treatments that will make your face radiant, your skin glow, your hair shine, and your hands and nails beautiful. From head to toe, you'll find the perfect treatment for every part of your body, whether you're looking for a relaxing bath blend, a stimulating facial mask, a natural bug repellent, a refreshing mouthwash, or a sensual body cream.

Be your beautiful best, inside and out!

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 30, 2007
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1580176763
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1580176767
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 1 x 8.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #175,292 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #104 in Organic Cooking
- #215 in Grooming & Style
- #375 in Herbal Remedies (Books)

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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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Customers find the book's recipes well-organized, broken down by skin and hair types, and easy to follow with clear directions. Moreover, they appreciate the helpful discussions of ingredients, including summaries of popular essential oils, and note that the book makes skin feel smooth. Additionally, the information quality is positive, with customers describing it as knowledgeable and full of useful content. The book serves as a great gift idea, and while some customers find it worth the price, others consider it expensive.

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139 customers mention "Recipes"124 positive15 negative

Customers appreciate the recipes in the book, which are broken down by skin and hair types and have a clear layout.

"...A great feature is that each recipe lists several very important and useful details, including recommended uses, prep time, tools needed, type of..." Read more

"everything from the soothing colors, layout, and explanations make the book itself a real joy to read...." Read more

"...to least preference are: 200 Tips, Techniques & Recipes for Natural Beauty by Shannon Buck, 101 Easy Homemade Products for your Skin, Health & Home..." Read more

"...There are also five face moisturizer recipes. One of them is basically water and glycerin, and another is oil-based...." Read more

98 customers mention "Information quality"95 positive3 negative

Customers find the book very helpful, with lots of useful information that teaches them a lot about organic body care recipes.

"...recipe lists several very important and useful details, including recommended uses, prep time, tools needed, type of storage container, and recipe..." Read more

"...in one chapter, she gives a very helpful description of all of the ingredients that she uses in her recipes, what they do, what kind of skin..." Read more

"...the author, Stephanie Tourles, a licensed esthetician and holistic skin care specialist, for her rationale of each ingredient and technique...." Read more

"...The author is an esthetician and gives good rationale about why certain products should be used, and for what skin types etc...." Read more

67 customers mention "Ingredients"53 positive14 negative

Customers appreciate the book's helpful discussions of ingredients and summaries of essential oils, with one customer noting its comprehensive list of herb properties.

"...It covers a wide range of beauty products you can easily make at home with easy to acquire, non-scary ingredients...." Read more

"...It was a pain but well worth it! I love this book and it ups my self care routine to the extreme." Read more

"...of the recipes look to have interesting combinations of oils and essential oils, and I'm guessing many of the finished products smell like heaven...." Read more

"...I loved all the explanations and the overviews of all the essential oils...." Read more

56 customers mention "Ease of use"56 positive0 negative

Customers find the book easy to understand and follow, with clear recipe style directions and comprehensive explanations.

"...The recipes use familiar measurements, the directions are easy to follow, and everything I've made from this book has turned out really well...." Read more

"...just how to make the product, what kind of skin it's best for, how to apply it. and how to store it...." Read more

"...Every recipe I have tried has been very simple, and perfect. For example: "Pineapple . . ...." Read more

"...The products I have made so far were easy to do and have a nice quality to them...." Read more

11 customers mention "Gift ideas"11 positive0 negative

Customers find the book to be a great gift idea, with one mentioning the ability to create gift baskets with homemade recipes.

"...is full of many other things that will be a delight to make, use, and gift...." Read more

"...Has lots of gift ideas and gift baskets you can make yourself. Even has an appendix of where to buy supplies and ingredients a very useful addition...." Read more

"This book is straightforward and user friendly making it a great gift for yourself or to give to someone...." Read more

"...several good recipes to use for holiday gifts and she gives helpful tips on gifting as well." Read more

11 customers mention "Skin care"11 positive0 negative

Customers report that the book's recipes make their skin feel good and smooth, with one customer noting that their skin is absorbing the ingredients effectively.

"...pineapple dissolves dead surface skin cells, resulting in softer, smoother skin." I used fresh mashed pineapple as a mask and it brightened and..." Read more

"...There is nothing wrong with using oil to moisturize the skin -- but I find it can be inconvenient..." Read more

"...Is it gonna get rid of your wrinkles? No. But it will make you feel warm and fuzzy...." Read more

"...I also like the idea that my skin is absorbing things that are actually good for me...." Read more

7 customers mention "Author style"7 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the author's style, with one noting their background as an esthetician and another highlighting their no-fuss approach.

"...The author is an esthetician and gives good rationale about why certain products should be used, and for what skin types etc...." Read more

"...easier to reference and work with and is indicative of the book's no-fuss style...." Read more

"...It is a beautifully written and designed book. My first copy was actually damaged in a flood and I loved it so much I reordered it...." Read more

"...The author is wonderful. I enjoy perusing the book and just reading it, even if I'm not looking for a specific recipe...." Read more

26 customers mention "Value for money"17 positive9 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the book's value, with some finding it worth the price and noting it saves money and time, while others consider it very expensive.

"...It was a pain but well worth it! I love this book and it ups my self care routine to the extreme." Read more

"...of the chapstick/gloss and it is the most luxurious once done and cheap to make...." Read more

"...the list of ingredients for some of the recipes was lengthy...and pricey. Others are quite simplistic. All in all, I'd recommend this book." Read more

"...Some of the recipes range from simple and inexpensive to complex and expensive so you can pick and choose what works for you...." Read more

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Andrea Grover
Easy success with DIY body care
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2013
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Hands-down the best make-it-yourself nature beauty care book I've used. It's a great starter book.

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The recipes use familiar measurements, the directions are easy to follow, and everything I've made from this book has turned out really well. The instructions are so much better than in The Other Beauty Book that I purchased that I'm using the directions from this book to modify the recipes from the other one, which are much harder to make but this book has shown me that it doesn't need to be difficult for a lotion to turn out really well.

It covers a wide range of beauty products you can easily make at home with easy to acquire, non-scary ingredients. Most of the recipes are very practical and the selection of products isn't horribly skewed to one or two types of products (only 18 pages on masks, as opposed to 40!), and there's a wider range of skin cleansers than I've found elsewhere.

A great feature is that each recipe lists several very important and useful details, including recommended uses, prep time, tools needed, type of storage container, and recipe yield. Compared to other natural beauty books, this puts it heads and shoulders above the competition. Seriously. You won't realize how important this is until you try to use the books that don't provide it!

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The Table of Contents and Index are terrible - basically useless, a librarian's nightmare. The TOC does not list individual products, only chapters in which to find them, and even those subsections of each chapter are not listed with a page number/ The Index does not list products by name, or even keywords within product names; I have to flip page by page through nearly the whole book if I didn't write down the name and page of the item I want to make.

This book needs a TOC and Index like those in The Joy of Cooking - far more cross-indexing is really needed and the titles of each product should appear in the TOC and in the Index, no exceptions. These are recipe books, after all, and should be produced as such. However, every other DIY body care book has the exact same problem, so I'm not knocking the ratings down for that. It's not the author's fault that the editor/publisher did a terrible job on front and back matter, right?

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this is making me a body care addict :)
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2013
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everything from the soothing colors, layout, and explanations make the book itself a real joy to read. her recipes are simple, diverse, and really good! i've tried the face scrubs, body washes and creams, lip glosses, and now i'm collecting the ingredients for a delicious-sounding 'love potion', which i described to a woman in the grocery store, so that even she wants to go out and get the book (i don't know if it was the recipe itself that got her or the idea of using it on her husband!).

in one chapter, she gives a very helpful description of all of the ingredients that she uses in her recipes, what they do, what kind of skin (or hair) they're best for, and what possible substitutes can be used, which i find really helpful since i don't have every ingredient on the planet.in each recipe, she tells just how to make the product, what kind of skin it's best for, how to apply it. and how to store it. she also gives helpful hints on how to give these products as gifts, which has come in handy because there's no way i can use all the stuff i've made! my friends and family have all really liked what i've made for them too and eagerly ask for more--even my brothers! that's because the skin cream, for example, is much better than anything i've ever gotten in a store. this stuff is really hydrating and long-lasting, and you can scent it whatever way you like or not at all. in our cold dry winters, this is just the ticket.

i was actually getting back online to see what other books stephanie tourles has written, but i thought i'd stop and write a product review first. as you can see, this has quickly become a really enjoyable hobby, and this book has made it easy to do.

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Rebecca Crawford
A big hit with my lovely lady
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2012
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My girlfriend has grown keen to the plastics and toxins and synthetic materials that are found in even top-tier quality make-up brands and shampoos and conditioners and air fresheners etc..... everything they sell to us has intentionally untested or poorly tested toxins in them these days.That said, my girlfriend has taken to concocting a lot of her own solutions for these problems and I believe this book was an excellent square #1 for her to begin that quest to conquer the toxins in our everyday lives.

All I can really say is she has spent quite a bit of time with her nose in this book down in the kitchen mixing up essential oils and beeswax and vegetable glycerin and all manner of stuff to make new lotion bars and face toners. I get to play test subject sometimes and I am actually pretty impressed with the quality of the final product in these recipes. Beats the heck out of face-shriveling chemical scrubs and washes, hands down.

Again, i haven't actively spent any time in the kitchen making the recipes within this book myself, but prior to this book neither had she and now she is cooking up a storm of products to replace all the crazy chemical goods that research has shown is not at all healthy for us, especially in the long term.

This book is in no way all-encompassing and I would strongly recommend supplementing any body care book with other literature and opinions and points of view on account of the new field that this science still is. But if you are new to the practice of essential oils and organic body care, this book will definitely not waste your time.

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Pamperings Handmade Soaps
Lots Of Good Recipes But Also Full Of Other Info As Well
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 7, 2016
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I purchased this book when I set up my business making natural soap and skincare. It’s a big book and there is so much information in it and it has lots of illustrations.

There’s a lot of background information in the book which covers skin care and the type of skin you have plus recommendations on which are the best products to use. It also goes a little bit into nutrition and the way that can affect your skin.

There is also plenty of data of the different ingredients used in natural skincare. Some of the ingredients such as borax aren't really used in the UK and are a bit suspect so you may need to do a bit more research before following some of the recipes.

One thing you need to know if you are considering buying this book is that many ‘recipes’ are not what I would call recipes. There are many instances when you are ‘told’ to add fragrances/oils to pre-bought products such as baby shampoo. I did actually know this before I purchased the book but it was still worth the cost because of the other actual recipes that are in here.

Most of the ingredients are easy to obtain but none of the sources mentioned are UK based, which I am. This isn't a problem though if you do a little online research.

I bought this as a beginner and it’s still really useful to me several years later. Recommend for anybody interested in making natural products.

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Heather
Just what I needed.
Reviewed in Canada on May 22, 2012
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I'm very allergic to some preservatives, the most commonly used ones, of course, and perfumes. I can buy some creams, lotions and potions, but it's always and adventure as companies reformulate their products, sometimes making a lotion which was wonderful last batch seem like a blend which includes fire ants in the new 'improved' version. Labels aren't always clear given the number of abbreviations and names under which preservatives are listed.

This book gives me options. I can make what I cannot buy, even if I have to mail order some of the ingredients. No more walking down the drug store aisle, magnifying glass and list of preservative names in hand, looking for something unscented that doesn't include things that make my skin burn, itch and swell up.

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Espera algo mais natural...
Reviewed in Brazil on June 9, 2015
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... e também mais barato. A grande maioria das receitas tem óleos essenciais que são muito caros, se uma pessoa, como eu, que tem interesse em fazer produtos para uso pessoal, decidir fazer um creme simples vai gastar fácil R$100 em alguns casos calculei R$300.

O livro é bem detalhado, mas esperava algo mais focado em ervas que em óleo e outros produtos industrializados.

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Pradeep Thakran
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Reviewed in India on August 23, 2014
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Not detailed process of making and recipe are missing in important ingredients.

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Susana O.
The best book on organic body care.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 7, 2013
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Well, I've buying some books on this subject and I must say this is the best one so far. You have simpler recipes which you can whip up with ingredients that anyone has in the pantry and you also have some more fancy concoctions. I love love love the "protection cream" (p. 220). This is a great book also because doesn't just have the recipes, it also has about 100 pages of tips, ingredients, etc, so you can make your own recipes.

VERY IMPORTANT: this book does NOT give any soap recipes. Soapmaking is a very complex subject, and it would be impossible to just write a chapter on it. If you really are interested on soapmaking (as I am) buy the "Natural Soap Book" by Susan Miller Cavitch for a more comprehensive aproach or the "Handmade Soap Book" by Melinda Coss for a few fancy recipes (with pictures, but not all soaps are vegetable).

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