The Essential Guide to Natural Skin Care: Choosing Botanicals Oils & Extracts for Simple & Healthy Beauty

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Nourish your skin with pure natural homemade products Treat yourselfyour face hands hair and lipsto vitamin-rich toxin-free nourishment from nature. The Essential Guide to Natural Skin Care lists the wondrous qualities and uses of botanicals used in homemade beauty products making it easy to customize your own lotions creams milks body butters face masks lip balms ointments toners and more. Use this complete inventory of botanicals and other ingredients to make informed choices about eco-friendly vegetable oils and butters infused and essential oils aromatic hydrosols and emulsifiers. Discover the beneficial beauty and healing properties of each as well as practical traits such as shelf life and absorption. Youll find ingredients that soften tone and hydrate skin and hair; tighten pores; fade scars; stave off wrinkles; help prevent and heal acne; promote hair strength; treat dandruff; fight infection and fungus; and repel insects. This compact DIY reference also includes practical advice and basic recipes that can be easily modified to your unique skin type needs and tastes.