Natural Skincare For All Seasons: A Modern Guide to Growing & Making Plant-Based Products

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Silvana de Soissons Silvana de Soissons

Natural Skincare For All Seasons

A Modern Guide to Growing & Making Plant-Based Products

Silvana de Soissons, Silvana de Soissons

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Pavilion
02 August 2022

Fashion & beauty industries; Dermatology; Botany & plant sciences; Sustainability; Cosmetics, hair & beauty

This is a modern, practical guide on how to grow and make your own skincare products, no matter how big your garden.

This handbook enables you to switch from toxic to nourishing skincare products that are better for you and the environment. Harness the therapeutic power of plants and natural ingredients to look after your skin – the body’s largest organ – simply, gently and effectively.

Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Skin – understanding what the skin is and how we take care of it; Chapter 2: Plotting My Skincare Garden: What to grow and how to arrange it; Chapter 3: Choosing Skincare Plants: The top 22 skincare plants to grow and forage for and their beneficial properties; Chapter 4: The natural skincare garden through the seasons: What to do to maintain your garden through the year and how to harvest and store your plants; Chapter 5: Basic formulations and 30 skincare recipes, including skincare teas cleanses, oils, creams and more; Sustainability – how to make a Natural Cleaning Spray and Botanical Household Soap.

Silvana takes you on a holistic journey, guiding you through planting the seed in the soil to growing harvesting, storing, creating and bottling your home-made herbal skincare.

By: Silvana de Soissons, Silvana de Soissons
Imprint: Pavilion
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 199mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 840g
ISBN: 9781911663812
ISBN 10: 191166381X
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 02 August 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

During her university days, Silvana worked in Culpeper's Herbalist shop in Bath and learned how to create specific, bespoke botanical solutions to provide healing remedies. So began a lifelong passion and research of the multi-tasking power of herbs. Silvana has mostly worked in food and lifestyle retailing, latterly setting up the shops and toiletries range at The Newt In Somerset, as well as owning her own businesses - The Foodie Bugle in Bath, whose blog won The Guild Of Food WritersNew Media Award (2012) and Farm Soap Co. in Dorset. She was the kitchen garden/food writer for The English Garden Magazine from 2012 to 2015 and is a regular contributor to The Simple Things, Cedar and Nonsuch magazines.