This book deals with beauty the way nature intended: guide to natural ingredients and their properties, with recipes for home-made balms, lotions, tonics, scrubs and creams. It offers a simple and accessible introduction to choosing and using natural beauty products that are safe, eco-friendly and kind to your skin. It features an A-Z of ingredients from acacia to zinc, and how they can be used in skincare preparations. It comes with practical suggestions for all kinds of home-made natural beauty treatments for the hair, body and face. Recipes include face and body creams, scrubs, masks, toner... View More...
Have you ever wanted to be able to create a perfect chignon or the neatest ponytail, or simply learn how to blow-dry your way to salon-sleek hair? If the answer is yes, then this is the book for you. You can look salon-fabulous every day with this complete practical guide to caring for and styling your hair, from simple styles and general haircare advice on braiding, curling and elegant up-dos. Over 85 amazing easy-to-follow step-by-step projects reveal the secrets behind creating the perfect hairstyle, and the correct way to wear hairpieces, accessories and hats. Learn how to achieve fanta... View More...
Hairstyling is a timeless way for women to create something unique and express themselves. Whether you wash it and run out the door, combine looks like edgy cornrows with disheveled waves or defy gravity with a sky-high '60s beehive, your easy-to-follow guide to hair is here. With nearly 50 diverse styles and tips for every type of hair length and texture, The Art of Hair: The Ultimate DIY Guide to Braids, Buns, Curls and More is the definitive guide to DIY hairstyling for women of all ages, styles and hair types. From the basics like hair 101 and frizz-free blowout instructions to sections ... View More...
From the author of the best-selling The Natural Soap Book comes this illustrated guide to making over 40 specialty soaps - from exquisite stained-glass, marbled, and layered soaps to soothing masseuse bars, hardworking laundry soap, and practical liquid soaps. Through clear, step-by-step instructions, master soapmaker Susan Miller Cavitch leads you through every step of the soapmaking process and teaches you how to craft exotic and practical soaps in your home; blend and use essential oils and natural colorants; design multi-colored, marbled, and imprinted soaps; understand the chemistry of so... View More...
