Natural Homemade Beauty

90 Recipes for Skin, Hair and Home

Leoniek Bontje

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Batsford Ltd
20 March 2024

Sustainability; Cosmetics, hair & beauty

A beautifully designed practical guide to creating luxurious, safe and effective beauty products using ingredients from nature.

In this charming book you'll discover how to prepare a huge range of products using plants, some of which you'll be able to find around you or grow yourself. It includes comprehensive, easy-to-follow recipes for:

Rich moisturising cream with daisy extract Shampoo with camomile for glossy hair Body scrub with sugar and honey Ginger oil to treat breakouts

You will find a wealth of other delights such as body butter, hair conditioner, lip balm, deodorant, bath oil and even toothpaste. Also included is a selection of fragrance products for your home, such as a lavender and pine room spray made with vodka!

Each easy-to-follow recipe gives a complete description of the making process so you can't go wrong, and there are handy visual guides to the plants you'll be using, accompanied by ravishing photography. Armed with this book you'll be able to create a whole beauty counter of products, both for yourself and for gifting, and you'll save money too!

By: Leoniek Bontje
Imprint: Batsford Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 150mm, Width: 200mm,
ISBN: 9781849948760
ISBN 10: 1849948763
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 20 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Leoniek Bontje is a herbalist and wild forager who is passionate about sharing her extensive knowledge of plants and their uses. She is the author of three books on foraging for plants, using plants for medicine, and drying and storing plant material, and runs a successful series of workshops on foraging and medicinal plants. She lives in The Netherlands.