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The Complete Guide to Natural Homemade Beauty Products and Treatments
- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Robert Rose (March 15, 2016)
- ISBN-10: 0778805301
- ISBN-13: 978-0778805304
- Cover price $24.95
- Purchase on Amazon
Chapters in this book include:
- Pamper Yourself Nature’s Way
- Making Homemade Beauty Products
- Face Products And Treatments
- Eye, Mouth, Hand And Nail Treatments
- Hair Products And Treatments
- Body Products And Treatments
- Bath Products And Treatments
- Scents And Sun-Care Products
The book discusses numerous common skin and beauty issues and explains what the purpose of many ingredients and recipes are. There are hundreds of tips, suggestions and short articles throughout the book The chapters have color coded pages, making it easy to flip to the section you want. The recipes for each products are simple and easy to follow. I was not familiar with many of the products like the oils, so am guessing you would purchase them online or in certain specialty stores. The book contains a lot of color photos. While not every recipe has one, I would estimate about one third to one half of them do.
This book would be a great fit for anyone wanting to use natural products in their beauty routine, as well as those interested in preparing their own homemade beauty treatments.
Here’s one of the recipes from the book.
Courtesy of The Complete Guide to Natural Homemade Beauty Products and Treatments by Amelia Ruiz © 2016 www.robertrose.ca Reprinted with publisher permission. Available where books are sold.
Wheat Germ Moisturizing Cream
Wheat germ oil is full of antioxidant vitamin E and is terrific at delivering moisture to parched skin. Rose water and rose essence give this cream a pretty floral scent.
Best for: Dry skin Tips: Choose 100% natural cocoa butter for homemade creams like this. You can buy chunks of this creamy, yellowish substance made from cocoa beans at cosmetic-supply stores and online. It is also sold in uniform-size wafers. Either form will work fine in this recipe. Rose and neroli (orange blossom) essential oils are expensive, because it takes so many flowers to make just a single drop of oil. This recipe substitutes less-expensive rose or orange blossom essence to give the cream a divine scent without the hefty price tag.
Note: Always measure accurately when you’re making homemade beauty products. See page 53 for tips.
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp rose water (30 mL)
- 1 tbsp grated raw beeswax (15 mL)
- 1 tbsp cocoa butter (15 mL)
- 1 tbsp shea butter (15 mL)
- 3 tbsp wheat germ oil (45 mL)
- 3 drops rose essence or orange blossom essence
Instructions
1. In a small saucepan, warm rose water over low heat (do not boil). Keep warm.
2. In a small heatproof bowl, combine beeswax, cocoa butter and shea butter. Set aside.
3. Pour enough water into another small saucepan to come about 2 inches (5 cm) up the side; bring to a simmer.
4. Set bowl on saucepan so that bottom of bowl is not touching simmering water; stir until beeswax mixture is melted and smooth. Remove bowl from heat.
5. Stir rose water and wheat germ oil into beeswax mixture. Using a wooden spoon, beat for 1 to 2 minutes or until lukewarm. Stir in rose essence. Let cool completely.
6. Smooth cream gently over face.
Sugar scrub and salt scrub recipes–are they included?
What a neat way to ensure you have moisturized skin, I love the idea of giving this wheat germ cream a try. I haven’t heard of it until now!
This sounds like a great book! The Wheat germ cream seems easy enough to make! I’m going to try it.
Wheat germ is not an ingredient I would have expected! I do love moisturizing creams though with my dry skin so I’ll have to check this out!
Ooo I’m all about the natural. This sounds good to try. Thanks for the share!
I love the idea of making my own wheat germ moisturizing cream, it sounds like something that would really benefit my skin. Thanks for sharing out to make this!