NEW TO THE LIBRARY

Homemade Beauty               B088

150 Simple Beauty Recipes Made From All Natural Ingredients

(Annie Strole)

“From making blueberries into a lush, detoxifying mask to turning fresh lemongrass into a nontoxic bug repellent, Homemade Beauty offers recipes for organic beauty products that avoid chemicals used in commercial cosmetics – and cost less to create than commercially available organic beauty products. Recipes like Almond Rose Body Lotion, Coconut Lavender Shampoo and Brown Sugar Vanilla Scrub will enchant you with heady scents – and thrill you when you realise these pampering products take only five minutes to make, and most require five ingredients or less!”

I love dipping into this book and experimenting with ingredients that are already in the kitchen cupboard or growing in the garden. Some recipes already include lavender but it is so easy to substitute most of the floral hydrosols and essential oils for lavender if you wish eg. The Almond Rose Body Lotion can become an Almond Lavender Body Lotion.

There is a useful icon key to find a recipe suitable for different skin, hair and body types plus information on the therapeutic benefits of nine essential oils and seven carrier oils that are easy to access.

*NOTE* The recipes are primarily designed for the personal use of the reader,  made in small batches and do not include preservatives. They have a short ‘shelf life’ so I would not recommend selling these products to the general public unless a natural preservative is added.

Pauline Livesey (NZLGA Librarian)

Books are available to borrow from nzlga_library@ lavender.org.nz

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