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Benjamin Franklin
Body Care
Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair
Make your own personal care products and natural first aid
If you've ever thought you would like to make your own personal care products, but didn't know how, this book is for you. This master herbalist’s guide to natural personal care empowers to you to care for your body with the purest of natural ingredients--those you choose for yourself. "Beauty involves working in partnership with nature," says the author. Chapters cover the making of specific beauty products and also cover the needs of women, men, teens, babies, and elders. Natural first aid, too. Includes 450 innovative formulas for essential products for face, skin, hair, hands, feet, mouth, and teeth--more than a hundred of which can be made from basic household staples. This is one of those basic do-it-yourself books that belongs on every shelf, as it frees you to create bodycare products as you want them.
Not Just a Pretty Face
Toxic chemicals in beauty products and what they do to your body
Do beauty products really make women more beautiful, or are they filled with toxic chemicals? A group of breast cancer activists and environmentalists did the research and found many chemicals linked to birth defects, infertility, and other illnesses. This book tells their story, and outlines the good news about safer technologies and products.
Scissors and Comb Haircutting
An easy way to learn basic haircutting for the entire family.
Save money and avoid toxic exposures in beauty salons by learning to cut hair yourself. I used this well-written book to learn to cut my husband's hair and we both enjoy the experience of his home haircut. This book is so clear in it's instructions that it is still the best-selling title for this subject, even after more than twenty years in print.
A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients
A listing of thousands of ingredients--both natural and synthetics--commonly used in body care products.
Gives the origin material of each ingredient, why it is used, what body care products it is found in, and potential health effects or benefits. Language is easy to understand.
