Feeding Your Skin

by Carla Oates

Expensive modern skin treatments and cosmetics are accompanied by slick marketing campaigns that equate them with glamour, happiness and health. But how healthy are they? What do they contain and what are they really doing to your skin? Your skin rapidly absorbs chemicals and passes them into your bloodstream, so why would you put anything on your skin that you wouldn't be prepared to eat?Feeding Your Skin is full of easy and delicious recipes for natural beauty treatments that you can make from everyday from cleansers, toners, moisturisers, exfoliants, masks and lip balms, through to nail treatments, shampoos, sunscreens and even deodorants. In fact, everything you need to keep your face and body beautiful and healthy.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction

176 pages, Paperback

First published October 4, 2007

Reviews

[Morv · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is very much a book to dip in and out of if you are the kind of person who wants to create your own skin care, shampoo ect. This is a rather good book to start you off, of course it helps if you know where to buy the ingredients in the book, the author has put all skincare and hair care products for all types so you will have one there for your own skin type and if it's not exactly there? Well it will give you a chance to experiment and do your own trails and errors.

I've tried the hair care one's and am hoping to start trying to make my own skin care at some point as well.

Also there is a section near the back about 'making your own nail polish' which is essentially putting henna onto your nails, leaving it for 15 minutes and taking it off, then buffing them to a high shine. Nothing wrong with this, but you will notice the thin edge of orange henna at the cuticle edge once you've finished buffing. I would say that is one experiment to avoid.

[Sharon · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic collection of natural skin care and beauty recipes designed for all skin types. This is a great introduction to natural skin care or in fact would offer even the seasoned creator some inspirational ideas.

[Allison Jenkinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book!