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“This guide brings something new to the table.”
—Every Day with Rachael Ray
—Every Day with Rachael Ray
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EcoBeauty has something for everyone. Crafty types will love the gift ideas, and even those of us who can barely make toast will be able to handle these recipes. Making beauty products at home is a great way to save money and help the environment, and these recipes will do all that plus give you gorgeous skin and hair.
--Beth Mayall-Traglia, editor in chief of TotalBeauty.com
Fun, fresh bath and body recipes that are great for gifts, girls' nights, or everyday use!
--Jill and Megan Carle, coauthors of Teens Cook and College Cooking
Attention DIYers! Finally, the ultimate natural-beauty "cookbook" packed with deliciously easy, eco-friendly recipes for getting gorgeous with fresh ingredients from the kitchen. A must-have for anyone who wants to be healthy, save money, and make the world a more eco-beautiful place.
--Rona Berg, editor in chief of Organic Beauty magazine and author of Fast Beauty
Lotions and Toners and Soaps, Oh My!
What's the hippest way to be green? When you whip up a batch of Avocado Hair Conditioner, not only will your hair be green (for about twenty minutes) but your lifestyle will, too. Natural beauty maven Lauren Cox is bringing bath and body into the eco-friendly future with 100 easy and economical projects, featuring au courant ingredients--hemp oil, green tea, soy milk, powdered kelp, goat's milk, and more--that are increasingly easy to find. Recycled bottling and green gift-giving ideas round out this stylish how-to manual for the DIY generation. So whether you are a crafty chica revitalizing your skin with an Espresso Yourself Facial Mask, a penny-pinching diva rocking some simple Green Tea Toner, or a chocoholic with a craving for Chocolate Brownie Lip Gloss, EcoBeauty has a money-saving, planet-loving, skin-pleasing creation for you.
--Beth Mayall-Traglia, editor in chief of TotalBeauty.com
Fun, fresh bath and body recipes that are great for gifts, girls' nights, or everyday use!
--Jill and Megan Carle, coauthors of Teens Cook and College Cooking
Attention DIYers! Finally, the ultimate natural-beauty "cookbook" packed with deliciously easy, eco-friendly recipes for getting gorgeous with fresh ingredients from the kitchen. A must-have for anyone who wants to be healthy, save money, and make the world a more eco-beautiful place.
--Rona Berg, editor in chief of Organic Beauty magazine and author of Fast Beauty
Lotions and Toners and Soaps, Oh My!
What's the hippest way to be green? When you whip up a batch of Avocado Hair Conditioner, not only will your hair be green (for about twenty minutes) but your lifestyle will, too. Natural beauty maven Lauren Cox is bringing bath and body into the eco-friendly future with 100 easy and economical projects, featuring au courant ingredients--hemp oil, green tea, soy milk, powdered kelp, goat's milk, and more--that are increasingly easy to find. Recycled bottling and green gift-giving ideas round out this stylish how-to manual for the DIY generation. So whether you are a crafty chica revitalizing your skin with an Espresso Yourself Facial Mask, a penny-pinching diva rocking some simple Green Tea Toner, or a chocoholic with a craving for Chocolate Brownie Lip Gloss, EcoBeauty has a money-saving, planet-loving, skin-pleasing creation for you.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Really DOES use ingredients you actually have in your kitchen,
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This review is from: EcoBeauty: Scrubs, Rubs, Masks, Rinses, and Bath Bombs for You and Your Friends (Paperback)
Again, we need the ability to give half stars, because this book should be a 4.5. (Jumping by 20% each time is just too much!)So...yes. This book really does contain recipes that you'll be able to make the minute you receive the book, unlike many books of toiletry recipes. You can't make ALL of the recipes without a trip to the grocery or drugstore, but you'll be able to find *something* you're interested in that you can try right away. I was. I really like the 'No More Cottage Cheese Thighs' scrub (The stupid names are a drawback...there's no way I'm putting that on the jar label. Goofy and a waste of space. I found them a bit juvenile. But you can just choose your own name, it's not like it affects the use of the product!) All it is is 1 cup of coffee, 1/2 cup of brown sugar, 1/2 cup of sea salt and a 1/2 cup of almond oil. (If you know about toiletry ingredients you can easily adjust the grind of the salt to be finer for sensitive skin, or the oil to be heavier or lighter for your skin type, but this particular recipe is pretty multipurpose, good for almost everybody.) I hate the taste of coffee, but love the smell, so this is a wonderful thing to slather on the legs and butt (the gathering area for cellulite, which this targets through increased circulation and the toning effect of caffeine on the skin) in your morning shower. There are lotions, creams, soaps, shower gels, shampoos, conditioners, bath bombs, deordorant, a natural nail polish...too many things for me to remember. Not all are totally from scratch. A few, like soap, rely on a purchased soap base, dressed up with natural additives so you can tailor the soap/shampoo/etc to your own hair/skin/etc. I think that's fine...this isn't meant to be an advanced book for people who want to make their own soap from scratch...a process that will require you to dedicate several hours of active attention (and then weeks of curing time, though that's just waiting.) That's not what I wanted from this book, so I wasn't unhappy that it was absent from it. If that IS what you want, don't buy this book...get one dedicated specifically to soap-making. (And good luck to you; I tried it once, and my soap REALLY didn't turn out.) Not all of these recipes will be useful to any one person, but many recipes can be altered simply by swapping out one ingredient for another so that you can tailor the item to your needs (dry skin likes a heavy oil like olive, for example, whereas oily skin is better with something really light, like jojoba.) Summary: I found this book fun and easy to use, and the recipes are generally pretty inexpensive to make...and you'll probably have enough of the necessary ingredients to make several of them immediately. If you would like to know more before buying, go to my profile...you can contact me through it to ask any question you like. I'm happy to answer...I always have this book out to be browsed through. :)
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4.3 out of 5 stars (22 customer reviews) 31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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Economical Beauty,
By Marika - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: EcoBeauty: Scrubs, Rubs, Masks, Rinses, and Bath Bombs for You and Your Friends (Paperback)
I ordered this book from a book club, sight unseen, and I'm not sorry I did! There were so many recipes that I could make right away; some books have exotic ingredients that you have to go online to fine. I live in BFE, so I'm thankful that most of the ingredients I could find at the local grocery/health food store. I already made the chocolate massage bar, the cupcake bath bombs, and shea butter lotion. My sons loved the chocolate milk bath. Buy it, you won't be sorry!
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
great book--every teenager should have one,
By Sadie - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: EcoBeauty: Scrubs, Rubs, Masks, Rinses, and Bath Bombs for You and Your Friends (Paperback)
I'm so thrilled with this book. I brought it home and my 12 1/2 year old daughter vanished with it. Soon pages were full of post-it notes marking the items she wanted to make. By bedtime she'd made a shower gel and an anti-acne honey potion. She is just coming of age with skin problems and is aware of how many chemicals there are in conventional products (she reacts to the SLS that is in most shampoos, even some of the ones at Whole Foods). This book totally pays for itself in what you save on beauty products.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
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By lovingmother - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: EcoBeauty: Scrubs, Rubs, Masks, Rinses, and Bath Bombs for You and Your Friends (Paperback)
I received this book for Christmas and I have been having so much fun with it. I was able to make a ton of the recipes just from stuff I already had in my house. Everything is really simple to make and I love the fact that I know exactly what I'm putting on my skin. I have really liked everything I have tried so far and have had only one minor unpleasant experience. The hair rinse that calls for powdered kelp works really well and gave my hair awesome shine, but my hair was soooo stinky afterwards and it took 3-4 washings before the smell finally went away. But I'm very pleased with this book and would definitely recommend it.
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