Synopsis
Learn insider secrets to making your own organic and natural skincare, hair care, and spa products. You will learn which vegetable oils, herbs, floral waters, essential oils, plant-based emulsifiers, and natural preservatives to use, how to pack and label your own beauty products, and how to store them safely.
GREEN BEAUTY RECIPES contains more than 250 recipes and step-by-step techniques used by the author, holistic nutritionist Julie Gabriel (THE GREEN BEAUTY GUIDE) to create her own organic skincare line, Petite Marie Organics.
Free of artificial ingredients and based on traditional beauty wisdom, recipes and advice in this book are easy to follow and cost very little to prepare. Practical, straightforward, and fun, these recipes are equally suitable for green beauty enthusiasts as well as professional beauty practitioners.
After reading this book, you will be able to create your own creams, lotions, cleansers, toners, masks, hair treatments, sun protection and baby care products. Facial cleansers, moisturizers, anti aging serums, sun protection lotions, hair treatments, and even deodorants can be prepared easily at home using only natural, easily available ingredients.
In just minutes, you can prepare a green, organic beauty product at a fraction of a cost of conventional chemical brew. You can pamper yourself head to toe with luxurious hair masks, deep cleansing home facials, aromatic massage oils, nourishing body lotions, and age-rewinding moisturizers in the most natural, luxuriously green way!
About the Author
Julie Gabriel is a holistic nutritionist and an organic beauty expert. As a former magazine beauty editor, Julie has worked with WWD, Harper's Bazaar, L'Officiel De La Mode et De La Couture, and Atmospheres. She has also worked on Fashion Television and CNN (Style with Elsa Klensch). When Julie became pregnant with her daughter, she embraced green, organic living and studied as a Holistic Nutritionist in Canadian School of Natural Nutrition in Toronto.
In 2008 Julie has written THE GREEN BEAUTY GUIDE: Your Essential Resource to Organic and Natural Skincare, Hair Care, Makeup and Fragrances (HCI 2008). This book became the first comprehensive guide into organic and natural beauty products. The book and Julie's own organic skincare line were featured in Elle, USA Today, Natural Living, Real Simple, Natural Home, Body+Soul, Organic Beauty, Plenty, About.com, Chopra.com, and on Martha Stewart Living Radio, among others.
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