Recipes for Natural Beauty: An authoritative guide to making your own body, skin and haircare preparations, complete with glossa

Description

Neal's Yard Remedies is one of the UK's leading natural health and beauty companies. Founded by Romy Fraser in 1981, it leads the way in organically sourced, scientificallyresearched products designed to promote health, happiness and well-being in ways which also benefit the planet. In this book, the founder of NYR reveals the fruits of years of company research which explains how to create the cosmetics at home. With step-by-step instructions, the book contains a whole range of skin and body treatments, including shampoos, hair dyes, cleansers, moisturizers, toothpastes, hand and nail creams, body scrubs, perfumes and fragrances, and many more. Making beauty products at hom means that the ingredients used can be controlled, and - with experience - creams, lotions and other products can be tailored to suit individual skin types. This is a fully revised and updated edition of a book first published in 1997 and now well-established as a standard work of reference.

Romy Fraser has a background in teaching. She then trained as a homoeopath and founded Neal's Yard Remedies in 1981 as an apothecary, selling a wide range of herbs, homoeopathic remedies, essential oils and flower remedies. She and the staff at Neal's Yard Remedies used their knowledge of traditional herbs and oils to develop a range of toiletries packed in distinctive blue glass bottles to ensure their quality. She regularly makes her own creams and lotions for use by family and friends.